Global History Regents Practice #1

Flashcards for Global History and Geography Regents Exam Review

Multiple Choice Question Strategy

Read the title and source of the documents to find clues.

Constructed Response Question Strategies

Refer to big events, be specific, and understand historical circumstances, cause and effect, and purpose.

Enduring Issues Essay Strategies

Identify an enduring issue, show its continuation/change, give three examples, provide a modern example, and use details.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

First Japanese shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Edo Castle

Daimyo lived in this Castle. Similar to King Louis and nobles in the Versailles Palace.

Peter the Great

Russian reforms! Westernization and Modernization. Cut the beards! More Western European!

Catherine the Great

Russian "enlightened despot". Mixed enlightened ideas with total power. Reformed Russian society!

John Locke

Enlightenment. Natural Rights - Life, Liberty, and Property.

Montesquieu

Enlightenment. Separation of Powers. Checks and Balances. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

Voltaire

Enlightenment. "Freedom of Expression".

Diderot

Enlightenment. Government belongs to the people. Scientific Theorist; Evidence-based discovery.

Rousseau

Enlightenment. Social Contract. Government must protect rights, people must obey laws.

Mary Wollstonecraft

British women's rights advocate who supported women's suffrage.

William Wilberforce

British abolitionist who argued in British Parliament that slavery was evil.

Woodrow Wilson

28th U.S. President who wanted to establish the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles and supported the Fourteen Points.

Vladimir Lenin

Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, helped overthrow the provisional government, established Communist Russia, and used propaganda and the New Economic Policy (NEP).

Joseph Stalin

Totalitarian leader of Russia after Lenin's death. Collectivization and Industrialization. Five Year Plans. Purges of enemies; Political Repression.

Adolf Hitler

National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party). Prime Minister and then the Führer. Aggressive expansionist policies. Anti-Semitism against Jews and the Holocaust.

Benito Mussolini

Italian Fascist. Totalitarian regime focused on nationalism and militarism. Allied with Nazi Germany and supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Winston Churchill

Important leader in fighting Nazis during WWII, using nationalist speeches. Maintained morale and resolve during the Battle of Britain.

Emperor Hirohito

Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. Supported Japanese expansionist policies and imperialism. Helped lead Japan during economic Recovery

Ho Chi Minh

Nationalist leader in Vietnam. Supported Vietnamese independence and communism. Helped reunify Vietnam under one government.

Harry Truman

33rd President of the U.S. Used atomic bombs on Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Enacted Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.

Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime Minister of India, 1947 to 1964. Industrialization, economic modernization, wanted peace between Pakistan and India.

Neville Chamberlain

British Prime Minister during WWII. Used "appeasement" against Hitler. Encouraged the 1938 Munich Agreement.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Last leader of the Soviet Union. Glasnost (democracy, openness) and Perestroika (restructuring).

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the U.S. Conservative policies, anti-communist. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech.

Fidel Castro

Revolutionary leader of Cuba. Established a communist government in Cuba. Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Boris Yeltsin

First President of Russian Federation. Oligarchy and Capitalism. Political instability.

Olympe de Gouges

French women's rights advocate. Wrote the Declaration of Rights of Women.

Louis XVI

French Absolute Monarch married to Marie Antoinette. Beheaded by the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

Robespierre

Radical Jacobin leader during the French Revolution. Leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. Executed by guillotine.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Leader who made himself emperor, created the Napoleonic Code, and controlled much of Europe. Empire building, Tax collection.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Haitian nationalist leader who fought to end slavery in Haiti and for independence from France.

Simon Bolivar

Known as "The Liberator". Key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian nationalist. Italian Unification. "Young Italy".

Jose de San Martin

An Argentine general who helped foster independence in Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

Adam Smith

Father of Economics. "The Wealth of Nations". Free market movement, capitalism.

Karl Marx

Famous theorist, writer of the "Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels. Marxism-criticism of capitalism. Class struggle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Italian nationalist leader who conquered Sicily and Naples and helped unite various Italian states into the Kingdom of Italy.

Otto von Bismarck

German/Prussian "Iron Chancellor". "Blood and Iron". Unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871

Camillo Cavour

Italian nationalist, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Italian unification diplomacy and alliances

Emperor Meiji

Meiji Westernization, Meiji Modernization, Industrialized Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry

Franz Ferdinand

Archduke of Austria-Hungary whose assassination in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist directly led to World War I.