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Examination Study Guide
GENERAL FORMAT FOR EACH EXAMINATIONS:
Each exam will consist of TWO sections:
I. A Web Multiple Choice section consisting of
25 questions. Questions will be worth 2 point each for a total of
50 points toward the course grade.
A) Most of the multiple choice questions will be based
upon quotations taken from the web readings.
B) A few of the multiple choice questions will be based
upon the topics and identification items listed below from the lectures
and the readings.
C) Prepare for this section by
1) perusing the web
readings , finding out what each reading is about and making a brief
note of it.
2) reading the text and master general concepts .
3) Use the Topic sections and term list below to guide your
study.
D) For sample quotations and questions, go to Multiple Choice Quiz Samples .
II. An Identication Essay Section in which
you are called upon to identify and state the historical significance of
five out of ten items or terms. Identifications ought to each be one
full paragraph, and will be worth 10 points each for a total of 50 points
toward the examination grade.
A) Most, if not all, of the identification items can be
found in the lecture notes , texts, and the web readings .
B) Use the index of the text and your "FIND"
command on your web browser to find definitions.
C) If you have no luck finding terms, try using a hard-copy
or web encyclopedia.
D) The best way to master these terms is to know them
within the context of the text and lectures. In other words, you
will understand their historical significance by placing them within the
"big picture", that is, within the general topics of each lecture
and text chapter.
E) It is also recommended that you make definitition notes
for each item as you hear them in lectures, see them in film clips,
or read them in the text, the lecture notes
, the and web readings . Do not "cram"
for the indentifation sections of the examinations.
C) Below are General topics and specific terms to be cover
in the four examinations. Keep a copy on hand during lectures and
study sessions.
GENERAL TOPICS AND IDENTIFICATION ITEMS
GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FIRST EXAMINATION:
- 1) The World in 1914-(Brower, pp. 1-35; Section
I ).
- 2) World War I-(Brower, pp. 36-43; Section
II ).
- 3) The Uneasy Peace-(Brower, pp. 43-48; Section
III ).
- 4) Russian Revolution/Soviet Union-(Brower, pp. 49-55, 116-129; Section IV ).
- 5) Fascism in Italy (Brower, pp. 106-109; Section
V ).
- The World in 1914
- Suffrage
- Conscription
- Compulsory Education
- Second Wave
- General Staff
- Protectorates
- settler states
- Macedonia
- Balkan Wars
- Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Moroccan Crisis
- Naitonalism
- Imperialism
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- World War I
- Militarism
- Alliance System
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Balkan Wars
- Franz Ferdinand
- Tannenberg
- Marne
- Gallipoli
- Mesopotamian Front
- Arab Revolt
- Submarine Warfare
- Trench Warfare
- Total War
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- The Uneasy Peace
- Clemenceau
- Lloyd-George
- Woodrow Wilson
- Fourteen Points
- Versailles
- Sevres
- Lausanne
- East Central Europe
- Mandates
- Reparations
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Charles Dawes
- Little Entente
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- Russian Revolution/ Soviet Union
- Vladimir Lenin
- October Revolution
- War Communism
- Russian Civil War
- Leon Trotsky
- CHEKA
- Brest-Litovsk
- N.E.P.
- Josef Stalin
- Purges
- Collectivization
- Comintern
- Five-Year Plans
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- Fascism in Italy
- Anarchosyndicalism
- Squadri Fascisti
- North/South Disparity
- Multiparty System
Mussolini
- Matteoti
- Concordate
- Fasces
- Corporativism
- OVRA
- Ethiopia
- Albania
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GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE SECOND EXAMINATION:
- 1) Weimar and Nazi Germany (Brower, pp. 109-113; Section
VI ).
- 2) Britain and France in between the Wars (Brower, pp. 55-75, 80-95;
Section VII
)
- 3) Japan and China in the Interwar Period-(Brower, pp. 95-105, 129-140;
Sections VIII-IX
).
- 4) The United States, 1918-1939-(Brower, pp. 68-72, 141-145; Section X ).
- 5) The Tide of Aggression, 1931-1939-(Brower, pp. 141-150; Sections
XI-XII ).
Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Spartacists
- Kapp Putsch
- Bela Kun
- Rentenmark
- National Socialists
- Swastika
- Hindenberg
- Reichstag Fire
- Sturmabteilungen
- Enabling Act
- Gestapo
- Nuremburg Laws
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Japan and China in the Interwar Period
- Meiji Restoration
- Russo-Japanese War
- Tsingtao
- 25 Demands
- Marshalls/Carolines
- Manchuria
- Chiang Kai-Shek
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Kuomintang
- Mikhail Borodin
- Long March
- Sino-Japanese War
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- Great Britain and France
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- Sein Fein
- Irish Free State
- Stanley Baldwin
- Ramsey McDonald
- Labour Party
- Edward VIII
- National Coalitions
- Maginot Line
- Louis Barthou
- Popular Front
- Leon Blum
- Cordon Sanitaire
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- The United States, 1918-1939
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- Normalcy
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Jazz Age
- Prohibition
- Herbert Hoover
- Crash of 1929
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- New Deal
- J. M. Keynes
- Alphabet Agencies
- Neutrality Acts
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- The Tide of Aggression,
- 1931-1939
- Ethiopia
- Francisco Franco
- Spanish Civil War
- Rhineland
- Anschluss
- Sudetenland
- Chamberlain
- Munich
- appeasement
- Polish Corridor
- Fifth Column
- Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
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GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:
- 1) World War II 1939-1945-(Brower, pp. 150-169; Sections
XIII-XIV ).
- 2) The Onset of the Cold War (Brower, pp. 170-200; Section
XV ).
- 3) Decolonialization In Asia and Africa (Brower, pp. 238-248, 267-280;
Sections XVI-XVII
).
- 4) China & India-(Brower, pp. 201-217, 248-266; Section
XVIII ).
- 5) Europe: East & West-(Brower, pp. 346-355; Section
XIX ).
World War II
- Blitzkrieg
- Winter War
- Battle of Britain
- Barbarossa
- Lend-Lease
- Stalingrad
- El Alamein
- Midway
- Partisans
- Island Hopping
- Strategic Bombing
- Holocaust
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Cold War
- Yalta
- Potsdam
- Iron Curtain
- Greek Civil War
- Berlin Blockade
- NATO
- Marshall Plan
- Iron Curtain
- Truman Doctrine
- Josef Broz Tito
- Korean War
- Nuclear Deterrence
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- Decolonization-Africa
- Apartheid
- Algeria
- South Africa
- Israel/Palestine
- Suez
- Gamal Abdal Nasser
- Korea, North and South
- Malaysia/Singapore
- Mozambique
- Non-Aligned Movement
- South Africa
- Vietnam, North and South
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- China and India
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- Chinese Civil War
- Great Leap Forward
- Cultural Revolution
- Deng Shao Ping
- Taiwan
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Muhammad Jinnah
- Sikhs
- Pashtunistan
- Bangladesh
- Kashmir
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- Eastern and Western Europe
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- Mixed Economies
- Warsaw Pact
- Conrad Adenauer
- German State Treaty
- European Community
- Benelux
- Comicon (CMEA)
- Khrushchev
- Brezhnev
- samizdat
- Prague Spring
- Solidarity
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GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FOURTH EXAMINATION:
- 1) The Americas-(Brower, pp. 282-304; Sections
XX ).
- 2) The Soviet Bloc-(Brower, pp. 355-368; Sections
XXI ).
- 3) The Development of Japan & Asia-(Brower, pp. 379-394; Sections
XXII ).
- 4) The End of the Cold War, 1985-1994-(Brower, pp. 368-378; Section
XXIII ).
- 5) Fundamentalism and Nationalism-(Brower, pp. 306-344, 398-415); Sections XXIV-XXV
).
- The Americas
- Macarthyism
- Civil Rights
- Great Society
- Watergate
- Ronald Reagan
- Bill Clinton
- Dependencia
- Juan Perón
- P.R.I.
- Fidel Castro
- Salvador Allende
- NAFTA
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- Asian Development
- Japanese Miracle
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- The Four Tigers
- Lee Kwan Yew
- "Third World"
- Neo-Confucian Work Ethic
- Dahlai Lama
- Pacific Rim
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- Cold War's End
- Desert Storm
- Gorbachev
- Glasnost'
- Pereistroika
- Yeltsin
- Ceaucescu
- C.I.S.
- Yugoslavia
- "Big 7" or "Big 8"
- Vladimir Putin
- Mandela
- DeKlerk
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- Turn of Century Issues
- Kyoto
- Global Warming
- Gastarbeiter / migration
- Fundmentalism
- S.D.I.
- globalization
- Greens
- anti-globalism
- Terrorism
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Euro
- Internet
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- Trouble Spots & Movements
- Taliban
- al-Qaida
- Wahhabism
- Hindu Fundamentalism
- Chechnya
- Kosovo
- Bosnia
- Rwanda-Burundi
- Somalia
- Iraq
- Korea
- Afghanistan
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EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION
ITEMS
- 1. Definition--Do you fully define the item or term? (who
or what is it, when and where did it exist)-- 4 points.
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- 2. Significance-- Do you fully state the item's historical
significance? (how or why is it important in world history)--3 points).
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- 3. Form and Mechanics-- Do you follow the fundamentals of
paragraphing, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation? (a
full paragraph and full sentences with proper grammar and spelling)--3
points
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SAMPLE SCORE-SHEET FOR EACH OF THE IDENTIFICATION
SECTION:
ITEM #1-----_____out of 10 points |
ITEM #2-----_____out of 10 points |
ITEM #3-----_____out of 10 points |
ITEM #4-----_____out of 10 points |
ITEM#5----- _____out of 10 point |
TOTAL:________out of SECTION GRADE:_________ |
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