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World History
World History Final Exam Study Guide /Flash Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Plato's ideal form of government? He stated his philosophy in his work The Republic. | He believes in a just state and a just individual. He believes tryanny is not a legitimate form of government. |
| The Romans were great law codifiers. Take a look at ancient Roman law codes. What were they called? | The twelve tables |
| What was some major differences between the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions? | Judeo-Christians sacrafised to appease and pacify. Judeo-Christians viewed females as an object of revulsion,rejection and defilement. When building a synogogue judeo christians heaped gold, jewels and other embelllishments whereas. |
| How did the Classical Greeks think about the individual? It is central to Western political thought today. | I could'nt find the answer to this one:( |
| A cornerstone of our government today is based upon some political ideas that came from Montesquieu. What are they? | He advanced the idea of seperation of powers. |
| One of the theories for the origin of the state is social contract theory. Who were some of the Enlightenment philosophers that advocated social contract theory? What is a social contract? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine ans Marquis de Lafayette. Believed that people in their natural state were basically good. |
| What Enlightenment philosopher, who published Two Treatises of Government, strongly advocated that humans have natural rights? | John Locke |
| What was an objective of the Tennis Court Oath? | to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution. |
| One of the accomplishments of the French Revolution was a document that was based upon the Declaration of Independence? What document? | Declaration of the rights of man |
| What did the National Convention do to create a new social, cultural, and religious order in France? | Brought fear towards the French. And put the Catholic Church under state control. |
| What provisions were contained in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? | Men are born and remain free and equalin rights. Social distinctions may be foundeed only upon the general good. |
| What reforms did Napoleon introduce to France? | Strengthened the central government, order, security, and effficiencyreplaced liberty, equality, and fratermity as the slogans of the new regime. |
| What was the Glorious Revolution all about? | To bring change. |
| Why is the Magna Carta significant in the history of democratic ideas? | Magna Carta was an important influence on the process that developed the rule of constitutional law, which is the general form of law governing most of the English speaking world. |
| What factors contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution in England? | People lived ver rural. Did almost everything by hand. |
| How did improvements to the steam engine affect the textile industry? | Pulles carriages along iron rails. Tracks could go places where rivers did not, allowing factory owners and merchants to ship goods swiftly and cheaply over land. |
| What social change was brought about by the Industrial Revolution? | It created a new middle class along with the working class.Middle class owned and operated the new factories, mines and railroads. |
| What was the objective of the Romantic artists? | To capture the beauty and power of nature. |
| What geographical significance did the Philippines have for the United States? | Located in the Pacific Ocean off the Southeast Asian mainland, the Philippines are comprised of over 7,000 islands. |
| What was the impact of imperialism on Africa? Make sure you check out the Congo and Ethiopia. | In congo, Belgians expliotedriches, such as copper, rubber, and ivory.Ethiopia managed to resist European colonization and maintain independence. |
| What does extraterritoriality mean? | is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations. |
| What were some of the justifications for imperialism? | To civilize the uncicilized. |
| What was another name for the First War of Independence in India? | The Great Rebellion |
| What was a major cause of the Opium War between Great Britain and China? | Britain refused to stop trading the drug to China. |
| What was a consequence of Commodore Matthew Perry and his encounter with Japan? | He carried a letter demanding that Japan open it's ports to diplomatic and commercial exchange. |
| How did China adapt to its encounter with the West? | Gained provisions. |
| Why did the United States get involved in the war? | The U.S shared a cultural historyand laguage with Britain and sympathized with France as another democracy. |
| What caused World War I? | the conflicts and hostility between the great European powers of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict as well. |
| Who were the different powers who fought in World War II? | Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan. |
| How did the Germans plan to win the war? | sweep down along the coast through Belgium and shorten the time it spent in France, eventually taking control of Paris (or so they hoped). |
| What mistake did Kerensky’s provisional government make in foreign policy? | He tried to keep Russia in WW1, despite the fact that it was the losses in that war which had been the main factor in the fall of the Czarist government |
| What did Lenin do to end World War I for the Russians? | It was the Germans who helped to smuggle him back into Russia. Once there he was able to use the sentiment of unrest caused by the war to lead the people toward revolution. |
| What was a major objective of President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference? | The allies met to discuss the fate of Europe, the former Ottoman empire, and various coloniees around the world. |
| What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles? | Forced Germany to assume full blame for causing the war. Covered the damage from the war and pensions for millions of Allied soldiers or their widows and families. |
| What is a fascist government? | Is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism |
| How did Adolf Hitler solve Germany’s economic problems? | He made it a lot worse. Germany was going through a rough time ecomomically because they had to pay for the damage they caused. |
| How did the Nazis in Germany treat the Jews? | Horrific. They kept them in camps and would make them die, suffering. |
| What was Hitler's goal? | Hitler's goal was the "purification" of the "Aryan race" through the elimination of "subhumans", which included Jews, gypsies, Asians, black Africans etc. |
| What was Kristallnacht? | was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces. |
| What were the laws that excluded Jews from German citizenship? | The Nuremburg Laws |
| Definition of militarism. | The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
| What is “total war”? | a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. |
| What is the “Western Front” | a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the east and the Allies to the west. A contested armed frontier during a war is called a "front". |
| Which countries were known as “the Central Powers”? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. |
| What group had a slogan that was “destroy the foreigner”? | The Boxer rebels in China |
| What are Zamindars? | A landowner, especially one who leases his land to tenant farmers. |
| What was the “white man’s burden”? | is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands. |
| Who set up a nonviolent movement with the purpose to force the British to aid the poor and grant independence to India? | Mohandas Gandhi. |
| The production of what was one of the first industries to be affected by the industrial revolution? | Mining and weaving were among the first- steam-powered pumps were developed to keep mineshafts from flooding, and mechanical looms powered first by water-wheels and then by steam replaced hand-looms. |
| What social change was evident by the Industrial Revolution? | The middle class owning machines and company's |
| Philosophies from John Locke. | He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception. |
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