Final Review Guide World History II
The final exam will comprise of 35 multiple choice questions, and several free response questions where you
have to analyze several forms of media. The questions below will help you on the multiple-choice.
MC Section: Cold War:
1. What is Containment?
2. How does Winston Churchill explain the tensions in the Cold War?
3. What is the Doomsday Clock? What does it represent?
4. Why were we involved in the Korean War? What is the outcome?
5. What is the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
6. How and when did we get involved in Vietnam?
7. What major event led to a larger anti-war movement in the 1960s?
8. Explain Gorbachev’s policies of Perestroika and Glasnost.
9. What is Deng Xiaoping’s role in modernizing China?
10. Be able to understand various events within the Cold War, and when they occurred.
11. What is the role of Margaret Thatcher in the Cold War?
12. What event signified the end of the Cold War? When did this occur?
Independence Movements in Africa and India
13. What type of protest is utilized in India? Who leads this movement?
14. What country controlled India into the 1940s? What is their reaction to the independence movement?
15. How are independence movements characterized in Africa?
16. What is “Apartheid”? Where did this occur?
17. What is the Mandate System? What countries were formed as a part of the Mandate system ending?
18. What country was formed in 1948 as a result of the Holocaust?
19. Who became leader of South Africa after the Independence movements in the 1980s?
20. Who was a supporter of the Soviet Union (from another country) through the 1970s, and later assassinated?
Genocide and Terrorism
21. What is Genocide?
22. Who was involved in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994?
23. Who was involved in the terrorist attack in Munich? When did this occur?
24. Identify future events that occurred directly because of the attacks on 9/11/01
25. Who was involved in the Ireland Bombings?
26. What are the eight steps to genocide?
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Free Response Section, No need to answer any questions here, just understand what you’ll be required to
accomplish.
27. You will have to analyze two prints from World War I.
28. There are two propaganda illustrations from World War II.
29. There is one Cold War Cartoon showing the desire for “Containment.”
30. There are four songs, and you will have to analyze the lyrics and decide whether it is anti-war or pro-war.
31. There is one poster about Apartheid in South Africa, and a desire for independence.