Second Semester Final Exam Review Packet - Hannigan
Name: ______________________________
Period: _____________
Directions:
 You do not need to write out answers to the learning targets, but they will be an important part
of questions on the final exam.
 For each term or historical figure give a definition AND explain the significance or give an
example in your own words. Be specific and summarize main ideas.
 For the significance portion relate the term to the unit of study by indicating why it is important
historically.
 Your work must be your own – if you answers are the same as another student all individuals
will receive a zero. Working together does not mean that you do not each submit your own
original wording.
 All of your answers to the questions must be handwritten in the space provided. (No typed
papers will be accepted).
Grading: This completed review packet is due on the day of the Final and will count as a 50 point
test grade in the final six weeks of the grading period.
Reformation and Religious Wars
1. Describe the issues and abuses of the Catholic Church in the 16th century which led to the
Reformation.
2. Explain the effects of Protestantism on the Catholic Church and how they responded with a
Counter Reformation.
3. Compare and contrast the newly emerging Protestant religions - Lutheranism, Calvinism
Anglican - with the Catholic Church.
4. Analyze the reign of Elizabeth I and its effects on religion and government.
Martin Luther:
Salvation by Faith Alone:
Indulgences:
John Calvin:
Predestination:
Henry VIII:
Protestant:
Counter Reformation:
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Elizabeth I:
Shakespeare:
Spanish Armanda:
Scientific Reformation
1. Articulate why the church opposed heliocentric theory proposed by Copernicus and Galileo.
2. Explain how Scientific Revolution represented a paradigm shift in human knowledge.
List four advances of the Scientific Revolution:
Heliocentrism:
Copernicus:
Galileo:
Newton:
Absolutism:
1. Describe the common characteristics of absolute monarchs
2. Explain how monarchy in England was altered by the rise of parliament
3. Outline the causes and effects of the English Civil War as a challenge to absolutism in England
4. Analyze how the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights put important restrictions on
the English monarchy
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Describe the characteristics of an Absolute Monarch:
Divine Right:
Louis XIV:
Sun King:
Versailles:
Constitutional Monarchy:
English Civil War (Causes and Results):
Lord Protector Cromwell:
Cromwell’s Protectorate Government:
Glorious Revolution (Causes and Results):
William and Mary
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English Bill of Rights:
Enlightenment
1. Summarize how the scientific revolution led to the Enlightenment.
2. Assess the changes in social, political and economic thought due to the philosophes new ideas.
3. Explain how enlightened ideas influenced the various political revolutions in America and France.
Philosophes:
Voltaire:
Montesquieu:
Checks and Balances:
Rousseau:
Social Contract:
John Locke:
Thomas Jefferson:
French Revolution:
1. Assess the political, social, and economic problems in the Ancien Regime to determine the causes
of the French Revolution.
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2. Cite the reasons why the French Revolution entered a radical and violent phase.
3. Evaluate the changes the Revolution created in the French government and economy as well as
how it impacted society.
4. Assess if Napoleon brought more positive or negative changes to the Revolution and French
society in general
5. Synthesize the issues of the Congress of Vienna to determine if it was a conservative reaction
against the aspects of a revolution.
1st and 2nd Estates: (Indicate which individuals made up these estates and what privileges they held)
3rd Estate (indicate which individuals made up this estate (all three groups) and what rights they had
and what taxes they paid)
French Revolution (causes and results):
Political Causes:
Intellectual Causes:
Economic Causes:
Social Causes:
Bourgeoisie:
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette:
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
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Storming of the Bastille:
Why did this happen?
How did it relate to the Revolution?
Reign of Terror:
Napoleonic Wars:
Napoleonic Code:
Congress of Vienna:
Industrial Revolution
1. Identify the technological, economic and social effects of the industrial age.
2. Describe the causes and effects of urbanization
3. Trace how advances in industry led to advances throughout society.
4. Assess the rise of new social classes during the industrial revolution.
5. Breakdown the reasons why the industrial revolution occurred in Great Britain before other
nations.
Reasons for Great Britain’s leadership of I.R.:
Urbanization:
Laissez-faire Capitalism:
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Utilitarianism:
Socialism:
Marxist Communism:
Modern Communism (Soviet Style):
Bourgeoisie and Proletariat in terms of Karl Marx:
Imperialism/Nationalism:
1. Analyze the effects of Nationalism on Europe
2. Articulate the driving forces behind German and Italian unification and the important figures
associated with each movement
3. Describe how Nationalist sentiments helped fuel Imperialism
4. Identify the motives that drove Imperialism and the methods by which global empires were formed
5. Describe the effects of Imperialism on Africa
Nationalism:
Militarism:
Romanticism:
Realpolitik:
Imperialism
Otto Von Bismark:
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Berlin Conference:
White Man’s Burden:
The Raj:
Commodore Perry:
Open Door Policy:
World War I/Russian Revolution:
1. Describe the factors that caused WWI.
2. Illustrate how WWI was different from previous wars.
3. Explain how Russia and the US entered and left the war, respectively
4. Analyze how the Versailles Treaty set the stage for future conflict
5. Identify how WWI allowed for the communist ideology of Karl Marx to triumph in Russia.
6. Interpret how the Bolshevik Party under Lenin’s leadership successfully overturned Russia’s
democratic government.
List Several Causes of WWI:
What was the immediate cause or “spark” that started WWI?
Alliance System:
Triple Alliance:
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Triple Entente:
Powder Keg of Europe:
Lusitania:
Why did the United States Enter WWI?
What effect did the entry of the United States have on WWI?
Treaty of Versailles:
Russian Revolution (causes):
Bolsheviks:
Lenin:
Totalitarianism/World War II:
1. Discuss the political and economic challenges nations faced in the 1920s and 1930s, and how
various countries reacted to those challenges
2. Examine how aggressive world powers emerged and what was necessary to defeat them.
3. Articulate the global aspect of World War II, particularly the significance of the Asian and Russian
theaters.
4. Describe the significance of the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
Stalin:
Causes of WWII:
Totalitarianism:
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Hitler:
Nazism:
Mein Kampf:
Holocaust:
Appeasements (define and give specific examples):
Hiroshima & Nagasaki:
Cold War:
1. Trace the origins of the “cold war”
2. Describe the ideological differences between communism and capitalism
3. Identify “hot spots” of the cold war and explain the consequences of the conflict
4. Explain the cultural impact of the cold war on the people and society
5. Articulate the causes of the end of the cold war
Cold War:
Iron Curtain:
NATO:
Warsaw Pact
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Globalization:
1. Assess varied reactions to globalization, from full acceptance to complete rejection.
2. Appropriately reflect upon 9/11 and the War on Terror in the context of globalization trends.
3. Place the following events in the context of globalization of democratic ideals in the post-WWII
world: Tiananmen Square, the end of Apartheid, and the formation of the European Union.
4. Evaluate the causes of persistent issues in the globalized world, referencing the Middle East,
Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Post World War II Technologies
Global Interdependence:
Out-sourcing:
European Union:
Positive political and social achievements of the 20th Century:
Causes of violent conflict in late 20th and early 21st Century:
Africa
General Themes- Post WWII:
Apartheid:
Nelson Mandela:
AIDS :
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Middle East
Fundamentalism:
Arab Israeli Conflict:
Intifada:
Ayatollah Khomeini:
Iran Iraq War:
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan:
Mujahedeen:
Taliban:
War on Terror:
9-11:
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Map Identifications
Directions: Indicate the location of each of the following on the attached maps. Map identification is
a critical portion of the exam.
Eastern Hemisphere Map Locations
 Germany
 Italy
 India
 China
 Indonesia
 Philippines
 Australia
 Singapore
 Hong Kong
 Suez Canal
 South Africa
 Egypt
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Austria – Map 1 & 2
Vienna – Map 1 & 2
USSR (Soviet Union) – Map 1 & 2
Moscow – Map 1 & 2
Poland – Map 1 & 2
Czechoslovakia – Map 1
Turkey – Map 1 &2
East Germany – Map 2
West Germany – Map 2
India – Map 3
Pakistan – Map 3
China – Map 3
Tibet – Map 3
Afghanistan – Map 3
Iran – Map 3
Teheran - Map 3
Singapore – Map 3
Vietnam – Map 3
Korea – Map 3
Venezuela – Map 4
Columbia – Map 4
Peru – Map 4
Argentina – Map 4
Brazil – Map 4
Cuba – Map 4
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Map
1 – Post WW I
Map
War
2 – Post WWII/Cold
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Map 3 – Modern Asia
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Map 4 – Latin America and the Caribbean
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