Unit VIII Essential Questions (i.e. “EQs”), Chapters 26 and 27
Directions: The following questions are intended to be utilized in conjunction with your
chapter outlines. You are responsible for creating Cornell-style outlines for each chapter
and submitting them on the day of each chapter exam. Use the EQs in the question area of
the Cornell notes (i.e. the left hand column) as all of these questions should be answered in
your notes anyway. They are the guiding questions of each chapter. You are to highlight
the information in your outline that answers each EQ question. Your outline notes should
be rather in depth while at the same time remaining an abbreviated version of the chapter.
What I mean by this is, do not copy the entire chapter down and call it your notes! You are
expected to read, synthesize, and regurgitate the information in a way that makes sense
to you. Your chapter outlines may vary in length due to handwriting size, (etc.) but will
likely be 6+ pages long. Chapter outlines are a great study tool and another method of
drilling the information into your head! Do not search for chapter outlines on the internet
that you can use and call your own. I will find out and there will be strict consequences for
plagiarism (zero score on assignment and referral to the SRC).
Chapter 26: The West and the World
1. Discuss the developments of the inequality in the global economy that resulted from the
industrialization of Europe.
2. Describe the development and growth of worldwide trade and the development of the
world market
3. Discuss the policies of the government of China and why they were self-sufficient.
Describe how the foreigners were able to infiltrate the country.
4. Describe the opening of Japan to Western civilization and the effects of that opening
upon Japan and its people.
5. Describe the penetration of European civilization into Egypt and the resulting effects.
6. Discuss the causes and consequences of the growth of the population of Europe in preWWI era
7. Describe the type of people who emigrated from Europe and Asia, the major sources of
emigration (what countries exactly did they come from) and the causes for their
emigration.
8. Describe the course and significance of imperializing Africa. Also, discuss how the
European’s avoided conflict among each other once the “scramble” began.
9. Discuss the causes and criticism of the age of new imperialism in the late 19th century.
10. Describe the growth of British domination of India and its effects.
11. Describe the opening of Japan to Western civilization and the effects if that opening
upon Japan and its people.
12. Discuss the policies of the government of China and the development of the
revolutionary movement in pre-WWI China.
Chapter 27: The Great Break: War and Revolution
1. Describe the motives of Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany and the system of
diplomatic alliances he constructed to sustain German national interests.
2. Describe the incidents leading to the development of the two rival blocs dividing Europe
prior to WWI (the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance).
3. Describe the developments of the stalemate on the Western Front that followed the
First Battle of the Marne.
4. Describe the growth of the war on the Eastern Front and the Italian Front and describe
the US entry into the war.
5. Describe the development of the concept of total war with its subsequent political and
economic impacts on the “home front.”
6. Discuss the social impact of WWI.
7. Discuss the growing tensions caused by the strain of total war.
8. Describe the effect of the war on Russia and its causing of the Russian Revolution and
subsequent fall of the Tsarist system.
9. Describe the establishment of the Provisional Government in Russia and the policies it
instituted to continue the war.
10. Discuss the background and view of Vladimir Lenin and his leadership of the Bolshevik
Revolution.
11. Discuss the establishment of Lenin’s dictatorship and the subsequent civil war in Russia.
12. Describe the developments leading to the signing of the armistice on November 11,
1918.
13. Discuss the 1918 revolution in Germany and the establishment of the new German
government.
14. Describe the developments of the Paris Peace Conference and the terms of the Treaty
of Versailles between the Allies and Germany.
15. Discuss the reasons for the American rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.