World History Spring Final Exam Review
Completed review = 10 points on the final exam
Changing Ideas
Learning Goal 1: Describe the major causes of the Renaissance and the political, intellectual, artistic,
economic and religious effects of the Renaissance.
1. What was the Renaissance? (definition, where it began and why, who it was influenced by)
2. What is humanism?
3. What is individualism?
Learning Goal 2: Analyze how the new ideas of the Renaissance were reflected in art, architecture, and
literature.
4. What were Renaissance artists mainly influenced by?
5. How was Renaissance literature different from Medieval literature?
Learning Goal 3: Describe the major causes of the Reformation and the political, intellectual, artistic,
economic and religious effects of the Reformation
6. What were the causes of the Reformation? (know about Martin Luther & Henry VIII)
7. What were the religious effects of the Reformation?
Learning Goal 4: Describe how the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Boyle and the invention of the
printing press contributed to the Scientific Revolution and describe the major changes that resulted from
the Scientific Revolution.
8. What was the Scientific Revolution?
9. How was the Catholic Church affected by the Scientific Revolution?
Learning Goal 5: Explain how Calvin, Locke, Hobbes, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Jefferson and
Blackstone contributed to the new ideas presented during the Enlightenment and describe the impact of
these ideas.
10. What was the Enlightenment? Why was it significant?
11. Be able to list important Enlightenment thinkers, the philosophies they believed in, and their impact
on society. (Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson)
Political Revolutions Test Review
Learning Goal 1: Describe the characteristics of an absolute monarchy and explain how the English Civil War
and Enlightenment were steps in the development of democratic-republican government.
12. Define Absolute Monarchy-
13. Compare England’s and France’s 17th century political developments (Limited versus Absolute
Monarchy).
Learning Goal 2: Compare the causes, characteristics, and consequences of the American Revolution and the
French Revolution.
14. Which Enlightenment ideas influenced the American Revolution?
15. What are the major causes of the American Revolution?
16. What were the major causes of the French Revolution?
17. Why was the French Revolution more violent than the American Revolution?
18. Be able to explain the major impact of both the French and America Revolutions.
19. What was the 3rd estate’s role in the French Revolution?
20. In what way were the American and French Revolutions similar and different?
Learning Goal 3: Explain how Napoleon Bonaparte’s rule and the Napoleonic wars led to geographic changes
in Europe, the spread of nationalism and democratic ideals, and independence in Latin America.
21. What was the Congress of Vienna?
22. Why did people want Napoleon in power after the French Revolution?
23. How did the American and French Revolutions impact revolutions in Latin America?
24. How did the Napoleonic Wars impact revolutions in Latin America?
Learning Goal 4: Describe the impact of famous political ideas contained in the Magna Carta, English Bill of
Rights, Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen and identify the influence of the ideas of separation of powers, checks and balances, liberty,
equality, democracy, popular sovereignty, constitutionalism and nationalism had on political revolutions.
25.
Be able to identify the importance of the documents listed above. (especially: Magna Carta, English
Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, US Constitution)
26.
Be able to define: separation of powers, checks and balances, liberty, equality, democracy,
popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, and nationalism
Industrialization and Imperialism Review
Learning Goal 1: Describe the causes of industrialization and explain the role technology and scientific
advances played in industrialization.
27. What role did the enclosure movement play in technological innovation?
28. What role did new technologies play in industrialization?
Learning Goal 2: Explain how the Industrial Revolution led to political, economic, and social changes and
describe how the roles of women, children and families changed during the Industrial Revolution
29. What social changes resulted from industrialization?
30. What economic changes resulted from industrialization?
31. What political changes resulted from industrialization?
32. How did industrialization change the lives of women, children, and families?
Learning Goal 3: Describe the historical origins and characteristics of the free enterprise system, socialism
and communism and explain how free enterprise affected industrialization
33. What are the origins and characteristics of the free-enterprise system (Laissez-faire, capitalism)?
34. What are the origins and characteristics of the socialism?
35. What are the origins and characteristics of the communism?
Learning Goal 4: Describe the political, economic, and social motivations for European imperialism and
explain the role technology played in European imperialism
36. Describe the political motivations for imperialism.
37. Describe social motivations for imperialism. (don’t forget about the “White Man’s Burden”)
38. Describe economic motivations for imperialism.
39. Why was European imperialism successful?
Learning Goal 5: Analyze the factors that contributed to the building of the Panama and Suez canals and
locate major imperial empires of the 19th century
40. Why were the Panama and Suez canals built?
Learning Goal 6: Describe the major characteristics and the impact of European imperialism
41. Describe Europe’s role in China and the Opium wars.
42. Describe how Europe changed the places they conquered.
43. What was unique about Japan at this time?
Global Conflicts Exam Review
The MAIN Causes of WW I and Trench Warfare - Learning Goal 1: Explain the causes of World War I and
describe the characteristics of trench warfare and the new technologies that impacted World War I?
44. What were the main causes of WWI? (MAIN causes, spark that set it off, etc.)
45. How did new technologies impact WWI?
Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles - Learning Goal 2: Explain the impact of Wilson’s Fourteen Points
and describe the political and economic impact of the Treaty of Versailles.
46. Why were Wilson’s 14 points important?
47. What was the treaty of Versailles?
48. What were the political impacts of the Treaty of Versailles?
The Russian Revolution - Learning Goal 3: Identify the causes of the February and October Revolutions in
Russia and describe how the Russian Revolution affected the outcome of World War I and led to Bolshevik rule
in the Soviet Union.
49. What were the results of the February and October Revolutions?
50. Who was Lenin? Why was he significant?
Global Depression - Learning Goal 4: Summarize the international, political, and economic causes of the
global depression and explain how the US, Germany, and the Soviet Union responded to the economic
depression.
51. Describe the causes and impacts of the Great Depression.
52. How did Germany respond to the global depression?
Totalitarianism – Learning Goal 5: Describe the characteristics of totalitarianism and fascism and explain how
Mussolini and Hitler came to power.
53. What is totalitarianism?
54. What is fascism?
55. Describe the rise of Fascism and how Mussolini and Hitler were able to come to power.
56. How did the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles lead to the rise of Fascism?
A Second World War - Learning Goal 6: Describe the causes and major event that characterized World War II
and describe the impact technology and leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin,
and Hideki Tojo had during World War II.
57. What were the main causes of WWII?
58. Why Pearl Harbor & D-Day significant?
59. What is total war?
60. Know the importance of the following figures of WWII:
 Franklin Roosevelt
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Adolf Hitler (what was his “Final Solution”)
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Winston Churchill
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Joseph Stalin
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Hideki Tojo
Cold War Conflicts
Learning Goal 1: Describe the causes and effects of the Cold War and explain how the Korean War, Vietnam
War and the arms race were associated with the Cold War.
61. Describe the causes that led to the Cold War and important characteristics of the Cold War (Berlin
Airlift, Berlin Wall, Domino Theory, Policy of Containment)
62. Describe the effects of the Cold War
63. Define the term iron curtain
64. Why did the US get involved in the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
Communism Spreads to China
Learning Goal 2: Describe the factors that led to the spread of communism in China and describe how
Communism in China differed from communism in the USSR.
65. Who was Mao Zedong? How did he help spread communism in China?
66. What long standing tradition ended because of China’s revolution?
20th Century Independence Movements/Decolonization
Learning Goal 3: Describe how independence movements developed in Africa, India and the Middle East after
World War II and explain why these areas continued to have ongoing conflicts.
67. Why did independence movements arise after WWII??
68. Why do many former colonies continue to face political and economic problems?
69. Describe the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Communism Ends in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Learning Goal 4: Explain the role Reagan, Gorbachev, Walesa, and Pope John Paul II played in ending
communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR and explain why the Soviet command economy collapsed.
70. What role did Pope John Paul II play in ending communism in Eastern Europe?
71. What was the importance of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall?
72. What happened to Russia at the end of the Cold War?
Unit 11 review
20th Century Oppression-Murder-Genocide
Learning Goal 1: Describe various examples of 20th century politically motivated mass murders and genocide
and explain how some individuals responded to political oppression in the 20th century.
73. Define genocide.
74. Who was Mohandas Gandhi? How did he respond to political oppression in the 20 th century?
Modern Globalization
Learning Goal 2: Describe the economic and social impact of 20th century globalization and describe the role
technology played in developing the modern global economy and society.
75. What is globalization? What were the causes of globalization in the 20th century?
76. What were the effects of globalization in the 20th century?
Terrorism- Challenge of the 21st Century
Learning Goal 3: Explain how the development of radical Islamic fundamentalism affected the second half of
the 20th century and explain how the US has responded to terrorism after 9/11.
77. What has been the impact of the development of radical Islamic fundamentalism on the world?