History 152 Final Test.
Part A. Locate the following countries and identify their modern capitals (20 points):
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Rwanda
Kenya
Mozambique
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Part B. Write one identification essay on the following (30 points):
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Sudan
Libya
Ghana
Nasser
OPEC
Camp David Treaty Khomeini
NAFTA
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Morocco
Angola
Madagascar
Algeria
Mandela
Apartheid
Pinochet
Jacobo Arbenz
Peron
PLO
South Africa
Somalia
Nigeria
Che
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Part C. Write one comprehensive essay on the following (50 points):
1. After World War II most countries in the Middle East failed to establish viable economies and stable political
systems. Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what particular factors have contributed to the prevailing economic problems and
fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. Despite numerous efforts, most Latin American countries today are still struggling to build viable
economies and stable political systems. In your opinion, what are the main factors that inhibited these efforts?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
4. US policies in Latin America have fluctuated from the “Dollar Diplomacy” to NAFTA. In your opinion, what
was the general effect of these policies on the region? Support your assertions with specific examples.
Test 5.
Part A (20 points). Locate the following countries and identify their capitals:
Pakistan
India
China
N. Korea S. Korea
Japan
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaya
Indonesia
Taiwan
Burma
Philippines
Part B. Write an identification essay on the following (30 points):
Stalin
Collectivization
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Prague Spring Korean War
Khrushchev
Solidarity movement
Chernobyl’
Rape of Nanking
Living Thoughts of Chairman Mao
Indira Ghandhi
”Great Leap Forward”
Part B. Write a comprehensive essay in response to one of the following (50 points). Cite your
source and provide specific examples:
1. Michail Gorbachev’s “perestroika” and “glasnost’” reforms effectively led to the downfall of
the Soviet Union. Why?
2. What were the main aspects of Japan’s “economic miracle”? How successful was it?
3. What were the main principles of Deng Xiaoping’s “Four Modernization” program? How
successful was it?
4. India’s modernization program was rooted in the mixture of capitalism and socialism? How
did it work? How successful was it?
History 152 Test 4. Identify one of the following:
Part. A. Identify the following items (40 points):
Versailles Peace Treaty
Spanish Civil War
Korean War
Fascism
Solidarity
Berlin Airlift
Thatcher
Globalization
Decolonization
Chaplin
EU
Guernica
Part B. Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following (60 points). Cite your source and
provide specific examples:
1. The Great War left the most profound impact on the 20th century. In your opinion, what were its
most important ramifications? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2. The two World Wars brought a number of cumulative changes in the governments and societies of
their major participants. According to the text, what were the most important of these changes?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. Some of the 20th century’s most noted figures (Yeats, Wiesel, Picasso, Camus, Ghandi, Szymborska)
have bitterly criticized the concepts of “civilization” and “progress” in the light of the uses and
misuses of technology since 1914. With a specific reference to one of these personalities, discuss the
main points of this critique.
4. In your opinion, who or what should be blamed for the Cold War? What were its most profound
effects? Support your assertions with specific examples.
History 152 Test 3.
Part A. Locate the following countries. Indicate their modern capitals and the countries that had colonized them in
the 19th century (30 points):
Algeria
Kenya
Libya
Angola
Sudan
Ethiopia
Mozambique
Somalia
Nigeria
Congo/Zaire
Part. B. Identify the following items (30 points):
Socialism
Marxism
Social Darwinism
unification of Italy
feminism Meiji
Chartist movement
Reform Act of 1832
Cameroon
Rwanda
“Scramble for Africa”
Colonialism
Opium Wars
Zionism
Bismarck
Part C. Write a comprehensive essay on the following and cite your source (40 points):
1. How do you understand the concept of “industrial revolution”? What is so “revolutionary” about it? What were
its positive and negative effects? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2.The 19th century is often called the “century of the middle class.” How do you explain this term? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
3. Examine the connection between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of new political ideologies in the 19 th
century. Support your assertions with specific examples.
4. Explain the basic tenets of Marxism and the reasons for its attraction to so many people around the world.
Support your assertions with specific examples.
5. What were the main driving forces of colonialism in the 19th century? What ideas and arguments were
employed to justify it? Support your assertions with specific examples.
6. Explain the term “nationalism” and compare its different manifestations in the 19th Europe and Asia. Support
your assertions with specific examples.
History 152 Test 2
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Part I. Identify one of the following (30 points):
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Fernand Braudel
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
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Part II. Write a comprehensive essay on one of the following and cite your source:
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Voltaire
Rousseau
Glorious Revolution
Atlantic system
Montesquieu
Vienna Congress
Napoleon
Polynesia
Enlightenment
1. In your opinion, what were the most profound repercussions of slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean basin between
1500 and 1800? How did slavery affect the Western world? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what were the most profound repercussions of the demographic shifts in the world system
between 1500 and 1800? Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries most closely reflected the “general will” of
the population? Support your assertions with specific examples.
4. According to the Western concept of the American revolution, it reflected the “general will” of the colonies.
The proponents of Marxism, however, argue that a group of wealthy merchants and businessmen simply utilized
the revolutionary ideology to pursue their selfish interests. In your opinion, which concept (Western or Marxist)
seems more convincing to you? Support your assertions with specific examples.
5. The French revolution began as a movement to establish a constitutional monarchy on the model of the
Glorious Revolution, but ultimately ended up with the rise of Napoleon. Why? Support your assertions with
specific examples.
6. Analyze the following statement: “although the Latin American revolutions resulted in the establishment of
independent republics on the model of the United States, in many aspects these were the least “revolutionary” of
the Atlantic revolutions.” Support your assertions with specific examples.
History 152 Test 1
Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:
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1. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 1500
and 1700. In your opinion, what were the most important features of this
development? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces and ramifications of
the European geographic explorations? Support your arguments with
specific examples.
3. Compare and contrast the geographic explorations of one Catholic and
one Protestant state in the 16th-18th centuries. Which one was more
successful? Why? Support your arguments with specific examples.
4. By 1500 the Islamic empires had been more powerful than their European
counterparts. By 1700 they lagged far behind in socio-economic, political,
and military matters. Why? Support your arguments with specific examples.
5. In your opinion, how effectively did one of the following countries Russia, China or Japan - respond to the increasing European dominance in
international trade and commerce in 1500-1700? Support your arguments
with specific examples.
History 152 Final Test.
Part A. Locate the following countries and identify their modern capitals (20 points):
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Morocco
Angola
Kenya
Madagascar
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Part B. Write an identification essay on the following (30 points):
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Algeria
Nigeria
Libya
Somalia
Suez Canal Crisis
Balfour Declaration
Mandela
Jacobo Arbenz
NAFTA
Darfur
Sudan
Congo (Zaire)
South Africa
Mozambique
Cameroon
Rwanda
Ethiopia
Ghana
Camp David Treaty
Nasser
Apartheid
Peron
Pinochet
Khomeini
OPEC
Rwanda
Che
PLO
History 152 Final Test
Part C. Write a comprehensive essay on the following (50 points):
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1. Define Sun Yat-Sen’s “Three People’s Principles.” In your opinion, which state in South-East Asia
came closest to implement these principles? Support your assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what particular factors have contributed to the prevailing economic problems and
fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro transformed their respective countries. Who, in your opinion,
managed to have built a more viable economic system? Support your assertions with specific
examples.
4. After World War II but a few countries in the Middle East have established relatively stable
political systems, economies and currencies, while most continue to stagnate. Why? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
5. Despite various efforts, most Latin American countries today are still struggling to build viable
economies. In your opinion, what are the main factors that inhibited these efforts? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
6. Analyze the following statement: “China and India have clearly demonstrated that large nations
find their own developmental patterns, appropriate to each country’s cultural heritage and economic
potential.” Support your assertions with specific examples.
7. Discuss and compare various approaches to economic development in two modern states in Africa.
In your opinion, which one is more successful? Support your assertions with specific examples.
8. US policies in Latin America has fluctuated from “Dollar Diplomacy” to NAFTA. In your opinion,
what was the general effect of these policies on the region? Support your assertions with specific
examples.
Test 5.
Part A (30 points). Locate the following countries, identify their capitals and the major
religious denominations (traditionally practiced by the demographic majority):
Pakistan India
Nepal
Mongolia China
N. Korea S. Korea
Japan
Bhutan
Bangladesh Burma
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaya
Indonesia
Philippines Taiwan
Sri Lanka
Part B. Write an identification essay on the following (70 points):
Mexican revolution
Prague Spring
Khrushchev
Rape of Nanking
Mikhail Gorbachev
Guomindang
Ghandhi
Versailles Peace Treaty
Korean War
Solidarity movement
NEP
Margaret Thatcher
Living Thoughts of Mao
Kashmir
Spanish Civil War
Appeasement
Chernobyl’
Prague Spring
Japan’s “economic miracle”
Cultural Revolution Indira
Berlin Blockade
History 152 Test 4. Write an essay on the following:
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In your opinion, what were the most important consequences of World War I?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
The two World Wars brought a number of cumulative changes in the
governments and societies of their major participants. According to the text, what
were the most important of these changes? Support your assertions with specific
examples.
Some of the 20th century’s most noted figures (Yeats, Wiesel, Picasso, Camus,
Ghandi, Szymborska) have bitterly criticized the concepts of “civilization” and
“progress” in the light of the uses and misuses of technology since 1914. With specific
references to two of these personalities, discuss the main points of this critique.
In your opinion, who or what should be blamed for the Cold War? What were its
most profound effects? Support your assertions with specific examples.
History 152 Test 3. Identify the following:
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socialism
“Scramble for Africa”
unification of Germany
Colonialism
Chartist movement
Opium Wars
Crimean War
Karl Marx
unification of Italy
Social Darwinism
feminism
Meiji Restoration
“Second Industrial Revolution”
Reform Act of 1832
“Sick Man of Europe”
Zionism
Emmeline Pankhurst
Bismarck
Russian-Japanese War
History 152 Test 1
Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:
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1. By 1500 Europe had slowly begun emerging from the turbulent Dark Ages. In your
opinion, what were the main driving forces of this process? Support your assertions
with specific examples.
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2. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 1500 and 1700.
How would you define it? In your opinion, what were the most apparent signs of this
development? Support your assertions with specific examples.
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3. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces of the European geographic
explorations? Support your arguments with specific examples.
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4. Compare and analyze the geographic explorations by a Roman-Catholic and a
Protestant state between the 16th and 18th centuries. In your opinion, which one was
more successful? Why? Support your arguments with specific examples.
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5. The socio-economic development of the Islamic empires between 1500 and 1700
was quite different from western Europe. In your opinion, what were the main
differences? Support your arguments with specific examples.
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6. In your opinion, how effectively did one of the following countries - Russia, China
or Japan - respond to the increasing European dominance in international trade and
commerce? Support your arguments with specific examples.
Test 2
Part I. Identify the following items (30 points):
Quakers
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Robespierre
Fernand Braudel
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Napoleon
Columbian exchange
Bill of Rights 1689
Montesquieu
Bolivar
Part II. Write a comprehensive essay on the following (70 points):
1. In your opinion, what were the most crucial political, social, and economic repercussions of slave trade in the
Atlantic Ocean basin between 1500 and 1800? How did slavery affect the Western world? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, what were the most crucial political, social, and economic repercussions of the European
settlement in the New World or Polynesia in 1500-1800? Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries most closely reflected the “general will”
of the population? Support your assertions with specific examples.
4. Which concept (Marxist or Western) of the American revolution seems more convincing to you? Why?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
5. The French revolution began as a movement to establish a constitutional monarchy on the model of the
English revolution 1688, but ultimately became more radical and violent than the American revolution. Why?
In your opinion, what factors accounted to such radicalization? Support your assertions with specific examples.
6. It has been argued that although the Latin American revolutions resulted in the establishment of
independent republics on the model of the United States, in many aspects these were the least “revolutionary”
revolutions of the period. Would you agree or disagree with such assessment? Support your assertions with
specific examples.
History 152 Map Quiz 1 . Locate the following
countries and Identify their modern capitals:
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Guatemala
Honduras
Panama
Peru
Argentina
Brazil
Salvador
Colombia
Bolivia
Paraguay
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Chile
Uruguay
History 152 Quiz 1. What/who is?
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Trade diasporas
Jenne
Genghis Khan
Guilds
Vasco de Gama
Vasco Nuňez de Balboa
Cultural transfer
Machu Picchu
Zheng He
Marco Polo
Tamerlane
Humanism
Safavids
Martin Luther
History 152 Map Quiz 2. Locate the following countries,
indicate their status by 1914, and identify their modern
capitals:
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Morocco
Sudan
Angola
Nigeria
Rwanda
Algeria
Cameroon
Mozambique
Congo/Zaire
Kenya
History 152 Test 2
Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:
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1. Assess the differences and commonalities in the “social contract” ideas as delineated
by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In your opinion, what
exactly was the nature of this contract, according to each thinker? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
2. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries most closely
reflected the “general will” of the population? Support your assertions with specific
examples.
3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries was the least
successful in achieving “liberty, equality, and fraternity”? Support your assertions
with specific examples.
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4. How do you understand the concept of “industrial revolution”? What was so
“revolutionary” about it? How did it affect the situation of a particular social group?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
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5. Analyze the connection between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of a new
political ideology of the 19th century. Support your assertions with specific examples.
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6. Explain the term “nationalism” and examine its different manifestations in the 19th
century Europe, America, or Asia. Was it a progressive or regressive force? Why?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
History 152 Map quiz 3. Locate the following countries
and identify their modern capitals and the dominant
religious denominations:
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Egypt
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Oman
Turkey
Israel
Iraq
Afghanistan
UAE
Syria
Jordan
Iran
Yemen
Qatar
History 152 Quiz 2. Write a comprehensive identification
essay (see the sample in the syllabus):
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Mexican revolution
Stalin
Great Depression
Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Tokyo International Tribunal
Korean War
Prague Spring
Russian revolution
Versailles Peace Treaty
NSDAP
Spanish Civil War
Holocaust
Berlin Airlift
Khrushchev
Solidarity movement
History 152 Map quiz 4. Locate the following countries,
identify their modern capitals and the dominant
religious denominations:
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Pakistan
India
Nepal
Mongolia
China
N. Korea
S. Korea
Japan
Bhutan
Bangladesh Burma
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia Vietnam
Malaya
Indonesia Philippines
Taiwan
Sri Lanka
History 152 Quiz 1. Identify the following:
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Suez Canal Crisis
Khomeini
Solzhenitsyn
Jacobo Arbenz
Salvador Allende
Gorbachev
NAFTA
Camp David Peace
Algerian Revolution
McCarthyism
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles de Gaulle
Congo Crisis
Pablo Escobar
History 152 Final Test
Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:
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1. In your opinion, who/what is to blame for the Cold War? Support your answer with specific
examples.
2. In your opinion, what factors in particular have contributed to the prevailing economic problems
and fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.
3. It has been argued that although Japan lost World War II, it eventually achieved its war-time goal
of economic dominance in the post-war East Asia. Do you agree with such statement? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
4. After World War II but a few affluent Middle Eastern countries have established relatively stable
political systems, economies and currencies, while most continue to stagnate. Why? Support your
assertions with specific examples.
5. In 1895 Porfirio Diaz said: “Poor Mexico - so far from God, so close to the United States.” What, in
your opinion, did Diaz mean? To what extent his statement can be applied to Latin America today?
Support your assertions with specific examples.
6. “China and India have clearly demonstrated that large nations find their own developmental
patterns, appropriate to each country’s cultural heritage and economic potential.” Do you agree with
such argument? Support your assertions with specific examples.
7. In the 1950-1960s the “welfare state” was an efficient tool to rejuvenate Europe’s economies. From
the 1970s, however, the system became less effective. Support your assertions with specific examples.
8. The road to the European Union was long and arduous, but it was worth it. Support your assertions
with specific examples.