Modern World History
Final Exam Review Guide – WRITE YOUR
ANSWERS ON LINED PAPER
Final EXAM Multiple Choice: 1/25/2016
Unit 1 Scientific Rev./Enlightenment
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What was the Scientific Revolution?
What were the effects of the Sci. Rev?
What was the Enlightenment?
How did the Enlightenment change society?
What were the beliefs of John Locke?
What did these beliefs and the beliefs of other
Enlightenment thinkers bring about in both the
Americas and Europe?
Unit 2 French Revolution/Napoleon
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Unit 4 World War I
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Who unified Germany? How did he do it?
What were the causes of WW1 (M.A.I.N.)?
Describe WWI’s new weapons’ technologies?
What were the effects of these new technologies on
warfare during WWI?
29. Why was the Treaty of Versailles called “a peace
built on quicksand”?
30. Compare and contrast the effects of the Congress of
Vienna (after Napoleon) and the Treaty of Versailles
(after WWI)?
Unit 4 Russian Revolution
7. Identify the Declaration of the Rights of Man &
Citizen
8. What was the relationship between the
Enlightenment and the French Revolution
9. Causes of the French Revolution?
10. What was Robespierre’s Reign of Terror
11. How was Napoleon’s invasion of Russia a big
mistake?
12. What was Napoleon’s greatest contribution?
13. What did the Congress of Vienna achieve for
Europe?
31. What is Marxism/Communism?
32. How is Leninism different than Marxism?
33. List the similarities between the causes of the French
& Russian Revolutions?
34. List the similarities between Russian Revolution
(1917 –led by Bolsheviks) and Chinese Revolution
(1911 – led by Sun yat sen’s Nationalists)
35. What 2 groups fought each other in the Russian
Civil War? Who won?
36. What is the U.S.S.R.?
37. What 2 groups fought each other in the Chinese
Civil War? Who won?
Unit 3 New Imperialism
Unit 5 & 6 Inter War Years and World War II
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38. What are the similarities and differences between
Communism and Fascism (in practice)
39. What is the main difference between Fascism in
Germany (Nazism) & Fascism in Italy
40. What is appeasement?
41. Give one example of appeasement.
42. What is isolationism?
43. Give one example of isolationism.
44. What were the causes of WWII?
45. Who were the Axis powers of WWII?
46. What is the significance of Hitler’s invasion of the
Soviet Union?
47. What 2 super powers emerged from the WWII
conflict?
48. What was the Holocaust?
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Industrial Revolution: where did it start?
How did it change society’s class system?
What is capitalism?
What were the social, political and economic motives
for Europe’s New Imperialism?
What is the “White Man’s Burden”?
What is Social Darwinism?
What were some of the forces that allowed the
Europeans to imperialize other countries?
Why was the British Empire the greatest of the late
19th century?
What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
What was the Japanese response to pressure from
imperial powers (United States)?
How were the Japanese and Chinese different when
faced with imperialism from the west?
Unit 7 Nationalist Leaders of the 20th century
Final Exam Essay (Tuesday, Jan. 20th)
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Describe Stalinism.
What was Stalin’s 5 Year Plans
What was Stalin’s Great Purge?
Why was the Mao’s Communist Red Army able to
defeat the Chiang kai Shek’s Chinese Nationalists in
1949?
What is the formal name of Mao’s Communist
China?
Describe Mao’s “Great Leap forward”.
What was Mao’s Cultural Revolution?
What is totalitarianism?
What is a satyagraha?
How did India gain its independence from Britain in
1947?
Unit 7 The Cold War and Beyond (Unit 7 Jan. 21st-Jan
23rd)
59. Compare the League of Nations and the United
Nations
60. What were the problems common to newlyindependent countries after WW2?
61. What was the Cold war?
62. What was the Iron Curtain?
63. Give an example of Soviet repression during the Cold
War.
64. Provide 3 examples of conflicts during the Cold
War.
65. What is NATO?
66. What is the WARSAW Pact?
67. What is Perestroika?
68. What is Glasnost?
69. What caused the breakup of the Soviet Union?
70. What were Deng’s 4 Modernizations in China
71. What was the significance of Britain’s Balfour
Declaration?
72. What were/are the causes of the disputes between
the Israelis and Palestinians?