Modern World History Final Study Guide

Modern World History Final Study Guide

Second Semester Units:

  • Unit 5.3: Industrial Revolution
  • Unit 6: Rise of Nationalism and Imperialism
  • Unit 7: WWI
  • Unit 8: Post WWI Era
  • Unit 9: WWII
  • Unit 10: The Cold War

Helpful Study Materials:

  • Class Notes
  • Homework/reading notes
  • Readings
    • PDF Textbook readings (canvas)
    • Scholarly article
    • Primary sources
  • Crash Course videos used in class
  • This study guide
  • Previous study guides you have used for unit tests

Quick tips:

  1. Organize your notes:
    • Collect notes from semester two and organize them.
    • Example: create “Key Terms,” “Key People,’” and “Key Events” headings.
    • Divide your notes into those headings.
  2. Collect and organize both primary documents and scholarly articles:
    • Look through the study guide and decide which sources will be the most applicable to the final.
    • Collect those sources (either print them out or store them in one folder) and focus your energies on them rather than attempting to re-read everything we have looked at.
  3. Break up your study:
    • DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT.
    • Start now and break it up over the next week and a half.
    • Examples:
      • Take a Unit a day
      • Take a subject a day (example: key terms one night, essay questions the next, dates/events the following, etc.)
  4. Talk to Mr. Moore:
    • Office hours and ASB are available to review material and answer any questions.
    • Open to schedule times outside of those blocks to meet with students (an email scheduling these appointments will be required).
    • Do NOT wait until the last moment to come see me.

Final Breakdown:

  • Section 1: Multiple Choice - 25 points
  • Section 2: True or False - 10 points
  • Section 3: Chronology - 5 points
  • Section 4: Matching - 10 points
  • Section 5: Essay (I will pick three of the prompts below, you will choose one of those three to answer) - 50 points

Study Guide Key Terms:

  • Feudalism
  • Mercantilism
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Communism
  • Authoritarianism
  • Totalitarianism
  • The Industrial Revolution
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Proletariat
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism
  • Colonialism
  • Social Darwinism
  • Humanitarianism
  • Berlin Act (1885)
  • The scramble for Africa
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  • The Triple Alliance
  • The Triple Entente
  • The Schlieffen Plan
  • Germany’s “Blank Check”
  • Trench Warfare
  • Wilson’s 14 Points
  • Treaty of Versailles (1919)
  • Bolshevik
  • Fascism
  • Nazi Germany
  • Fascist Italy
  • Lebensraum
  • Lateran Treaty
  • Collectivization
  • USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
  • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
  • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Kulaks
  • Gulag
  • New Economic Policy (NEP)
  • Holodomor
  • Axis Powers
  • Allied Powers
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Appeasement
  • Total war economy
  • “Little Boy”
  • “Fat Man”
  • Island Hopping
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
  • Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
  • Truman Doctrine (1947)
  • Proxy Wars
  • The Space Race
  • The Berlin Wall
  • Containment
  • Iron Curtain
  • Domino Theory
  • Détente
  • Perestroika
  • Glasnost
  • Decolonization
  • The Global Depression
  • The People’s Republic of China
  • League of Nations
  • United Nations
  • German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939)
  • Anti-Comintern Pact (1936)

Key Figures:

  • Karl Marx
  • Otto Von Bismark
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • King George V
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Rasputin
  • Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Hitler
  • Mussolini
  • King Victor Emmanuel III
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Winston Churchill
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • President Harry Truman
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Fidel Castro
  • Mao Zedong
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Ronald Regan
  • Neville Chamberlain

Key Events:

  • Italian Unification (1861)
  • Germany Unification (1871)
  • Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
  • Spanish-American War (1898)
  • The Moroccan Crises (1905-1906)
  • October Manifesto (1905)
  • First Balkan War (1912-1913)
  • Second Balkan War (1913)
  • July Crisis of 1914
  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Russian Revolution (1917)
  • Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
  • February Revolution (1917)
  • The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
  • Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
  • Night of the Long Knives (1934)
  • Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) (1938)
  • March on Rome (1922)
  • The Great Purge (1936-1938)
  • WWII (1939-1945)
  • German Invasion of Poland (1939)
  • Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
  • Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942- February 1943)
  • D-Day (June 6, 1944)
  • Surrender of Italy (1943)
  • Surrender of Nazi Germany (May 8th, 1945)
  • Tehran Conference (November,1943)
  • Yalta Conference (February,1945)
  • Potsdam Conference (July, 1945)
  • Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) (May 8th)
  • Surrender of Imperial Japan (September 2, 1945)
  • Dropping of Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
  • Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
  • The Cold War (1947-1991)
  • Berlin Blockade (June, 1948 - May, 1949)
  • The Korean War (1950-1953)
  • The Vietnam War (1955-1975)
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16th – October 28th 1962)
  • The Great Leap forward (1958-1962)
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989)
  • Fall of the Soviet Union (December 26, 1991)

Potential Essay Questions:

  1. How did the Industrial Revolution transform societies economically, socially, and politically, and what were its long-term global implications?
  2. Analyze the causes and consequences of imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, considering both the motivations of imperial powers and the impacts on colonized regions.
  3. Evaluate the role of nationalism in shaping the events of the 20th century, including its influence on World War I, the rise of fascism, and the decolonization movements.
  4. Discuss the impact of technological advancements, such as the development of nuclear weapons and the space race, on the dynamics of the Cold War and international relations.
  5. Compare and contrast the political ideologies of capitalism and communism, examining their origins, key characteristics, and the ways they shaped global events and conflicts throughout the 20th century.
  6. Analyze the impact of globalization on the modern world, considering its effects on economics, cultures, and the environment, as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents for nations and individuals.