Semester 2 Final Exam Review Sheet PDF

Semester 2-Final Exam Review Sheet Unit 1 – Nationalism Revolutions Sweep the West Define the following terms: 1. peninsulares 2. mestizos 3. nationalism 4. realpolitik 5. romanticism 6. realism 7. impressionism Know t...

Semester 2-Final Exam Review Sheet Unit 1 – Nationalism Revolutions Sweep the West Define the following terms: 1. peninsulares 2. mestizos 3. nationalism 4. realpolitik 5. romanticism 6. realism 7. impressionism Know the answer to the following questions: 1. What were the positive (4) and negative (4) results of nationalism? 2. What two men led in the Italian unification movement and how did they each help? 3. Who was the ambitious leader of Prussia and master of realpolitik? 4. Who was the leading composer of the Romantic period?  Unit 2 – Imperialism Define the following terms: 1. imperialism 2. Sepoy Mutiny 3. annexation Know the answer to the following questions: 1. Who was the first European to travel to the African interior? 2. How did the Industrial Revolution encourage nationalism? 3. What was meant by the phrase “Black Man’s Burden,” coined by Edward Morel? 4. What woman established the nursing profession through her work during the Crimean War? 5. What positive (3) and negative (3) impacts that the British colonization had on India? 6. What two items were discovered in Africa in the late 1800’s that helped draw Europeans there?  Unit 3 – The Great War Define the following terms: 1. Schlieffen Plan 2. trench warfare 3. no man’s land 4. unrestricted submarine warfare 5. armistice 6. Lusitania 7. self-determination 8. League of Nations Know the answer to the following questions: 1. What were the main causes of World War I? 2. Serbia and the Black Hand are associated with? 3. Who was the leader whose assassination sparked World War I? 4. What were the characteristics (3) of total war? 5. What were the ways (3) that women contributed to the war effort? 6. What was the end date for World War I? 7. What word describes the feeling that artists and writers had about life after the war? 8. Who were the leaders of the “Big Four” and what nations did they represent? 9. What were the stipulations (4) of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany? 10. Which part of the treaty did Germans find particularly frustrating?  11. Why were African and Asian colonies upset after the war? Unit 4 – Revolutions in Russia and Asia Define the following terms: 1. totalitarianism 2. civil disobedience 3. USSR Know the answer to the following questions: 1. What revolutionary called for the workers to overthrow the government and rule in its place? 2. Who became the charismatic leader of the Bolshevik group? 3. Who led the provisional government after the fall of the czar? 4. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik’s Red Army? 5. What new name was adopted for Russia in 1922? 6. Who was the leader of the communist party in China? 7. What was the last dynasty that was overthrown in China in 1911? 8. What were the principles (3) that the new Republic of China was built upon?  Unit 4 – The Years in Between the Wars Define the following terms: 1. existentialism 2. surrealism 3. fascism 4. appeasement 5. Rhineland 6. Sudetenland 7. Anschluss 8. isolationism Know the answer to the following questions: 1. What was the name for the group of artists who moved to Paris after the war? 2. What American became famous for flying solo over the Atlantic? 3. What were the weaknesses (3) of the Weimar Republic? 4. What was the date the American stock market crashed? 5. What were the assertions (3) that Hitler made in his book Mein Kampf? 6. What was Hitler’s first open act of rebellion against the Treaty of Versailles? 7. What was the name for the agreement between Germany and Russia?  Unit 5 – World War II Define the following terms: 1. blitzkrieg 2. Luftwaffe 3. Battle of Britain 4. Battle of the Bulge 5. “Final Solution” 6. V-E Day 7. Nuremberg Trials Know the answer the to the following questions: 1. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain leading up to and during the war? 2. What nation was invaded to start World War II? 3. Where was there a miraculous escape by over 300,000 British soldiers from German capture? 4. What European nation fell to Germany in the summer of 1940? 5. What was the codename for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany? 6. What were the restrictions (3) put on the Jews by the Nuremberg Laws? 7. What were the typical conditions (3) in Jewish concentration camps? 8. What was the name for the largest concentration camp? 9. How many Jews died in concentration camps during the war? 10. What was the codename for the planned invasion of France at Normandy? 11. Who were the two most famous Nazi’s at the Nuremberg Trials? 12. Who was the only Nazi to show remorse at the trials? 13. What two former allies emerged from the war with conflicting agendas?