Mrs. Magee

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2nd Semester Review

• Mrs. Magee
• World History

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Chapter 16 Exploration and Expansion

• What was the first country to launch large-scale
  voyages of exploration in the early 1400s? What
  was their main goal?
• Find a water route to India

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Chapter 16 Exploration and Expansion

• List the results of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
• Spanish Empire grew larger than the Portuguese
  (all of the Americas went to them!)

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Chapter 16 Exploration and Expansion

• What is a mercantilist? What is a conquistador?
• Sell more goods than it buys from foreign
• A conqueror, ex Francisco Pizarro

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Chapter 17 New Asian Empires

• Who founded the Ottoman Empire and was religious
  freedom tolerated?
• Osman I
• Yes, it follows Islamic law

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Chapter 17 New Asian Empires

• Who was Shah Jahan?
• Indian leader who imposed heavy taxes to pay for
  costly monument in memory of his wife, palaces,
  and wars

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Chapter 17 New Asian Empires

• List the reasons for the Ming dynastys decline.
• High taxes
• Crop failures

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Chapter 17 New Asian Empires

• What country was allowed to trade with the
  Chinese during the Qing dynasty? Why?
• The Dutch
• They respected Qing customs and values

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Chapter 17 New Asian Empires

• What are Janissaries?
• Elite soldiers loyal only to the sultan

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• List the accomplishments of Charles V. Why did
  he give up his throne?
• Territory included parts of Italy, Austria, and
  some German states
• Frustrated by failure in Europe

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• Why did King Phillip want to invade England?
• Return England to the Catholic Church

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• What is a Huguenot?
• Challenged the ideas of the French monarchy
• Did not think France should be ruled by one king
  and have one religion

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• What caused the War of the Spanish Succession?
  English Civil War?
• Louis 14s desire to have the Spanish throne for
  his son
• Charles Is idea to arrest Puritan leaders of
  Parliament for treason

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• Who was considered the Sun King?
• Louis 14

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• List the following in order Restoration,
  Glorious Revolution, Puritan Revolution, English
  Civil War
• English Civil War
• Puritan Revolution
• Restoration
• Glorious Revolution

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• Who were William and Mary?
• Took the throne of England during the Glorious
  Revolution

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• List the accomplishments of Peter I.
• Transformation of Russia into a modern state
• Education reforms

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Chapter 18 The Monarchs of Europe

• Explain the relationship between divine right and
  absolute monarchy.
• Monarchs claimed they had divine right to rule
  over the people

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Chapter 19 Enlightenment and Revolution

• Name one person who had a growing conflict with
  the church during the Scientific Revolution.
• Galileo

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Chapter 19 Enlightenment and Revolution
Philosopher Main Beliefs
Locke Right to overthrow gov. that does not protect the people
Newton Separation of science and religion prove everything
Hobbes He described life in nature as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short people are not naturally good
Voltaire Right to a fair trial civil rights
Rousseau People are naturally good
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Chapter 19 Enlightenment and Revolution

• What was the heliocentric theory and who wrote a
  book about it?
• Earth revolves around the sun
• Copernicus

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What was the Great Fear? What caused it?
• Panic and riots by French peasants
• Fall of the Bastille

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• Describe the groups that made up the 3 estates.
  Why did Louis XVI want to have a meeting with
  them in 1789?
• Clergy
• Nobles
• Commoners/bourgeoisie
• Approval of new taxes on 3rd estate

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What was the Revolutionary Tribunal?
• Eliminate people who threatened the Revolution
  from within

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What was the Reign of Terror? How did it end?
• When Robespierre took power and began killing
  anyone against his ideas
• Increased foreign opposition to the French
  Revolution

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• List the following in the correct order
  Directory, Legislative Assembly, National
  Assembly, National Convention
• National Assembly
• Legislative Assembly
• National Convention
• Directory

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• Why did the people like Napoleon?
• Promised order after the chaos of the Revolution

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What country was Napoleons biggest enemy? How
  did Napoleon try to defeat them?
• GB
• Continental System

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What happened with Napoleons troops in Russia
  and in Spain?
• Russia- defeated by winters and scorched earth
  policy
• Spain- troops retreat after not wining against
  guerilla warfare

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• What type of government did France have after
  Napoleon was exiled?
• monarchy

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Chapter 20 The French Revolution and Napoleon

• Who was Prince Klemens von Metternich and what
  impact did he make at the Congress of Vienna?
• CofV- strenthened nations surrounding France
• Austria- helped to defuse the liberal ideals of
  the FR

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Chapter 21 The Industrial Revolution

• Which country industrialized first? Why?
• GB colonies gave natural resources

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Chapter 21 The Industrial Revolution

• What natural resources were desired by
  industrialized countries? Circle the one that was
  most important in the early development.
• Minerals
• Wood
• Water

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Chapter 21 The Industrial Revolution

• What were the effects of mass production?
• More consumer goods available to more ppl

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Chapter 21 The Industrial Revolution

• What did Karl Marx and Frederick Engels have in
  common?
• Germanys industrial growth delayed by lack of
  central gov.
• Capitalism would lead to poverty and worker
  revolutions

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Chapter 22 Life in the Industrial Age

• What invention allowed factories to become less
  dependent on water sources?
• Electric power

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Chapter 22 Life in the Industrial Age

• How did the emergence of public transportation
  systems affect peoples way of life during the
  Industrial Revolution?
• Led to expansion of cities and suburbs

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• Name the three men who all had the same goal of
  unifying Italy.
• Guiseppe Mazzini
• Camillo di Cavour
• Guiseppe Garibaldi

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• What was the economic impact after Italian
  unification?
• Widespread poverty and unemployment led to
  violence and emigration

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• What does the phrase blood and iron mean? Who
  said it?
• German people would have to work to create a
  powerful country
• Otto von Bismarck Prussian military force German
  unification

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• How was the Austrian Empire affected by
  nationalism?
• Revolutions in FR
• Italy and German states led revolts in Austria

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• What caused the Crimean War?
• Conflict over Holy Land

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• Why didnt nationalism work during the Dual
  Monarchy?
• Remained a problem because ethnicities wanted to
  be self-governed

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• Who were the Decembrists?
• Rev. group in Russia
• No allegiance to new czar

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Chapter 24 Nationalism in Europe

• What is a socialist republic? What group promoted
  it?
• No private property
• Russian Marxists

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Chapter 25 The Age of Imperialism

• Describe the following terms British Raj, Treaty
  of Nanjing, Meiji Restoration
• BR- Indian and Brit in segregated neighborhoods
• TN- benefited Euro countries at the expense of
  China
• MR- refers to the Japanese emperor return to
  power

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Chapter 25 The Age of Imperialism

• List the results of the Russo-Japanese War. What
  Southeast Asian country remained independent?
• Japan wins over Russia
• Siam

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Chapter 25 The Age of Imperialism

• List the reasons European countries began
  imperialism in Africa.
• Controlling colonies would gain them respect from
  other leaders

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Which countries were part of the Triple Entente?
  Triple Alliance?
• TR- F, R, GB
• TA- A-H, G, I

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Put the following events in order Russia moved
  to support Serbia, Germany declares war on
  Russia, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
• A-H declares war on Serbia
• Russia supports Serbia
• Germany declared war on Russia

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Which country fought a two front war? Why?
• Germany
• They fought Russia and France on either side

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Chapter 26 WWI

• What is trench warfare?
• Fighting along the front in ditches that
  protected men but caused them to be at a
  standstill

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Why did the US join WWI? What side did they join?
• Zimmerman Note
• Lusitania
• Allies added troops to Allied cause

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Explain how the role of women changed from before
  to after the war.
• Public views of what women could do were
  transformed

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Chapter 26 WWI

• List two weapons invented during the war. Why
  were they created (dont answer to kill)?
• Poison gas
• Machine gun
• Created b/c trench warfare had led to a stalemate

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Chapter 26 WWI

• Why did colonies join the Allies?
• Hoped their service would win their colonys
  independence

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Chapter 26 WWI

• What was the Zimmermann Note?
• A proposal by a German official that Mexico
  attack the US in return for territory

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Chapter 26 WWI

• T/F By 1914, Russia had a stable economy with a
  strong ruler.
• False

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Chapter 26 WWI

• What were the results of WWI?
• Allies win
• Treaties broke apart A-H and OE
• Germany blamed for war lose national defense,
  debt

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Chapter 27 The Interwar Years

• Who was Mao Zedong? What was the Long March?
• Leader of Chinese Communist Party
• Led march through China to escape the
  Nationalists

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Chapter 27 The Interwar Years

• Why did the Japanese want Manchuria?
• Control rich natural resources

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Chapter 27 The Interwar Years

• Who was Stalin? What were his goals with the
  USSR? How did his ideas differ from Marx?
• Leader of USSR
• Modernization and industrialization
• Wanted to increase gov power rather than reduce
  it (like Marx)

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Chapter 27 The Interwar Years

• What was the Great Purge?
• Stalin wanted to get rid of resistance

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Chapter 27 The Interwar Years

• What were the Nuremberg Laws?
• Defined a person as Jewish based on ancestry of
  grandparents, not religious belief and created a
  separate legal status for Jews

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What was Anschluss?
• Union of Austria and Germany after WWI
• he thought that European powers would not
  interfere with these plans b/c of the lack of
  direct action to stop his militarization of the
  Rhineland

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What began WWII?
• Hitlers attack on Poland

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Chapter 28 WWII

• List the Allies and Axis Powers during WWII.
• Allies China, F, GB, USSR, US
• Axis J, I, G (get it?! Like the dance!)

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Chapter 28 WWII

• List two inventions created during WWII. What
  invention helped Britain the most against German
  air raids?
• Radar and sonar
• radar

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What was a nonaggression pact? What countries
  signed it in 1939?
• left the Soviet Union unprepared for Hitlers
  attack
• Soviet Union and Germany

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What were the views of most Americans at the
  beginning of the war? What made the US get
  involved later?
• Isolationism
• Pearl Harbor
• but had been providing military aid to GB before
  entering war

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Chapter 28 WWII

• Why did the Allies want to control North Africa?
  Why did the Soviets not like this move?
• They needed access to the Suez Canal in order to
  obtain needed Middle Eastern oil
• Soviets were disappointed that the Allies chose
  to delay European invasion

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Chapter 28 WWII

• Who did the Nazis target as being inferior
  people?
• Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, Poles, Slavs,
  Gypsies

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What was the Final Solution?
• concentration camps and death camps

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Chapter 28 WWII

• Why did America want to have a massive invasion
  on the Western Front?
• To open a second front and put Axis forces on the
  defensive

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What were the goals of the Yalta Conference?
• agreement on what to do with postwar Europe

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Chapter 28 WWII

• What was the significance of the victory at
  Stalingrad?
• Turning point of war in Europe for the USSR

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• Why did the US not want the USSR to have control
  of Eastern Europe after the war?
• Officials believed Soviet expansion would not
  stop at Eastern Europe

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• How was Germany and Berlin split after the war?
  What did the Soviets try to do to in 1948 to take
  the whole city of Berlin?
• East and West
• In 1948 Soviets blocked land, rail, and water
  routes into W. Berlin in order to force the West
  to leave Berlin

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• Why did the US go to war with Korea?
• contain Communist expansion

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• What was the arms race? Name one effect it had on
  the world.
• Race to create the biggest weapons between US and
  USSR
• Effect an ever-present threat of nuclear war

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• What were the results of the 1954 peace talks
  over Vietnam? How did this result reflect Cold
  War tensions?
• Resulted in dividing Vietnam into northern and
  southern halves
• Vietnam was divided between communist and
  capitalist

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• How did the Cold War end?
• USSR collapsed

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• What caused Yugoslavia to break apart in the
  1990s?
• Ethnic tensions coupled with a weakening gov.

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• What happened in Rwanda in 1994?
• About 1 mill. people massacred due to ethnic
  tension

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003?
• Based on the belief that Iraq had chemical and
  biological weapons

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Chapters 29, 30 and 33 The Contemporary World

• What is a tsunami? What area was affected by one
  in 2004?
• Natural disaster huge winds creating massive
  tidal waves
• Southeast Asia

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THE END!!!!

• GOOD luck on the final exam!