<p>World History Study Guide – </p><p>Enlightenment</p><p>1. What idea does “divine right” support?</p><p>2. What kind of government did England have in the 1600’s?</p><p>3. Who proposed the heliocentric theory?</p><p>4. What law did Isaac Newton explain?</p><p>5. What group accepted the ideas and principles of the Enlightenment?</p><p>6. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?</p><p>7. What people influenced the ideas in the Bill of Rights?</p><p>8. What document has the idea that men are born free and equal?</p><p>French Revolution to Latin America</p><p>9. What percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?</p><p>10. What happened on Bastille Day?</p><p>11. During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?</p><p>12. Why did Napoleon sell the Louisiana Territory to the US?</p><p>13. What were some consequences of the Battle of Trafalgar?</p><p>14. What did Napoleon accomplish during peacetime?</p><p>15. What was the main goal of the Congress of Vienna?</p><p>16. Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?</p><p>17. Who expanded Prussia in the 1860’s?</p><p>18. What group led the independence movement in Latin America?</p><p>19. Who was Jose de San Martin and what did he do?</p><p>20. Who led the independence movement in Mexico? Industrial Revolution</p><p>21. What was the industrial revolution?</p><p>22. What are the factors of production?</p><p>23. What was a result of the agricultural revolution?</p><p>24. What is the name for voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reform?</p><p>25. What is laissez-faire economics?</p><p>26. Who are the Zionists?</p><p>27. Who was the American inventor who created the assembly line?</p><p>28. What concept in the theory of evolution based on?</p><p>Imperialism</p><p>29. Why was India called the “jewel in the crown”?</p><p>30. What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference?</p><p>31. Why did some US business leaders want Hawaii to be annexed to the US?</p><p>32. Why did Britain sell opium to China?</p><p>33. What is manifest destiny? 34. Why wasn’t there adequate food in Africa during colonization?</p><p>35. What happened as a result of the Sepoy Mutiny?</p><p>36. Why did nations desire Pacific Rim islands?</p><p>37. Why was the Mexican Revolution fought?</p><p>World War I</p><p>38. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?</p><p>39. What is nationalism?</p><p>40. What region was referred to as the “powder keg” of Europe?</p><p>41. Who led Germany during the last part of the 1800’s and most of WWI? 42. What was the Schlieffen Plan?</p><p>43. What nation’s actions caused the US to enter WWI?</p><p>44. What is it called when all of the resources are devoted to the war effort?</p><p>45. What happened at the Battle of Tannenburg?</p><p>46. What did unrestricted submarine warfare do?</p><p>47. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany after the war?</p><p>48. What was America’s opinion on joining the League of Nations?</p><p>49. What happened to start the Great War?</p><p>50. What was significant of the First Battle of the Marne?</p><p>51. What was trench warfare intended to do?</p><p>52. What effect did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk have?</p><p>53. What action on November 11, 1918 brought WWI to an end?</p><p>54. What were the Fourteen Points about?</p><p>55. Who took sole (all of the) responsibility for WWI under the Treaty of Versailles?</p><p>56. Under the treaty, who received the Chinese territories that had been controlled by Germany?</p><p>Russian Revolution/Between the Wars</p><p>57. What did the pogroms do that occurred in late 19th century Russia?</p><p>58. How did the Russian czars deal with calls for reform?</p><p>59. Who were the Bolsheviks?</p><p>60. Who was responsible for the Great Purges?</p><p>61. What led Britain to finally give India limited self-rule?</p><p>62. Who did China’s peasants align themselves with in the 1920’s? 63. What halted the Chinese civil war in 1937?</p><p>64. After WWI, what kind of government have, if only temporarily?</p><p>65. What is a totalitarian state?</p><p>66. What was the purpose of the Soviet 5-Year Plans?</p><p>67. What group took the Long March?</p><p>68. Who led the protest known as the Salt March?</p><p>69. Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton’s laws of motion?</p><p>70. What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?</p><p>71. What was Roosevelt’s New Deal program?</p><p>72. What effect did the Dawes plan have?</p><p>73. What damaged the US economy in the late 1920’s?</p><p>74. What caused Germany to take Hitler seriously?</p><p>75. What makes fascism so appealing?</p><p>76. Why did Hitler target the Jews?</p><p>World War II</p><p>77. Who was il Duce ?</p><p>78. What political party wanted to combat communism?</p><p>79. What was the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan?</p><p>80. What was the goal of isolationists after WWI?</p><p>81. What is appeasement?</p><p>82. Why did Japan invade Manchuria?</p><p>83. What effect did the non-aggression pact have?</p><p>84. Why are coalition governments usually unstable? 85. What prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany?</p><p>86. What role does Winston Churchill have?</p><p>87. What was blitzkrieg?</p><p>88. What lesson was learned at the Battle of Britain?</p><p>89. What event was described as “a date which will live in infamy”?</p><p>90. What was significant about the Battle of Midway?</p><p>91. What was the location of a Nazi extermination camp?</p><p>92. What was the last German offensive battle?</p><p>93. Where were the atomic bombs dropped?</p><p>94. What was addressed at the Nuremberg Trials?</p><p>95. What did it mean to be “behind the iron curtain”?</p><p>96. What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?</p><p>97. What was the name of the alliance made by Communist nations?</p><p>98. What two groups fought a civil war in China before and after WWII? 99. What was addressed in the Nuremberg Trials?</p><p>100. Why did Hitler want to take Poland?</p><p>101. What was “island hopping”?</p><p>102. What was Kristallnacht?</p><p>103. What was the goal of Hitler’s Final Solution?</p><p>104. What led to the defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?</p><p>105. What do kamikaze pilots show about Japanese culture?</p><p>106. How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the US?</p><p>107. What was the response to Japanese aggression in Southwest Asia in mid-1941? 108. Why were thousands of US citizens put into internment camps during the war?</p><p>Cold War</p><p>109. What theory justified US foreign policy during the Cold War?</p><p>110. What were Third World countries?</p><p>111. Who supported the Strategic Defense Inititative?</p><p>112. What was the new economic policy started by Gorbachev that allowed private ownership of businesses?</p><p>113. Who signed the Camp David Accords?</p><p>114. What created the Israeli “buffer zone”?</p><p>115. What happened to Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat?</p><p>Modern Day</p><p>116. What caused the two Germany’s to reunify?</p><p>117. What was the original purpose of the internet?</p><p>118. What do developed nations have that developing nations do not?</p><p>119. What is included in the global economy?</p><p>120. What is sustainable development?</p><p>121. What was the US civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s?</p><p>122. What is meant by popular culture?</p>