WORLD HISTORY
FINAL EXAM REVIEW PACKET
Directions: This review is a homework assignment that I will collect on the day
of the final exam in June. DO NOT LOSE THIS—KEEP IT IN THE LEFT
POCKET OF YOUR TWO-POCKET FOLDER. Have it with you ALWAYS.
Class time will be given from time to time to work on the review, but the
sooner you complete it, the more time you have to review it to prepare for
the final exam.
UNIT ONE: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
1. Who was eligible to be an “active” voting citizen to help choose the
delegates that created the Constitution of 1791?
2. What was the promise made by the National Assembly when they took the
Tennis Court Oath?
3. What ruling body did Napoleon’s coup d’état overthrow? _______________
4. Give two major reasons for the collapse of Napoleon’s Grand Army.
5. Which estate was the only estate expected to pay the taille (tax) prior to the
revolution?
6. Concerning gender, what group in France WAS NOT protected by the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
7. The Constitution of 1791 gave what group the power to make laws?
8. What was Napoleon’s most important legal code?
9. In Napoleon’s new government, what was a promotion based on?
10. What was Napoleon’s major military mistake in 1812?
UNIT TWO: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. The start of the Industrial Revolution began in what European nation? _____
2. What was the first major industry effected by the Industrial Revolution?
3. What new labor system did the factory produce?
4. Describe what is meant by realpolitik.
5. What two new social classes were created by the Industrial Revolution?
6. Conditions were so bad for workers in the early industrialization period that
a new political idea came about hoping to spread the wealth of society to
as many people as possible. What was this new political force?
_______________________
7. The principle of intervention gave the powers of Europe what right?
8. Name the four commodities that led the way for the Second Industrial
Revolution. ____________ ____________ ___________ ___________
9. Karl Marx gave what name to the industrial working class. _____________
UNIT THREE: IMPERIALISM
1. What was one way that British rule did not hurt the people of India?
2. Peasants in India working for foreign-owned farms faced bad working conconditions, poverty level wages, and high taxes—what is one thing
they did not share with the owners of the factories? ___________________
3. Describe what is meant by the “white-man’s burden”.
4. The Boers of South Africa were descended from what European ethnic
group? ___________________________
5. Was the promotion of Indian troops over British troops one of the reasons
for the Sepoy Mutiny? ____________
6. Of the following countries, which did NOT have a ‘sphere of influence’ in
China by the late 1800’s? U.S/England/Germany/France
7. There were many reasons for European Imperialism. Was one of them that
Europe was hoping to share their new technology with the people they
were conquering? _____________
UNIT FOUR: WWI
1. Of the following, which was not a cause for WWI:
militarism/nationalism/communism/imperialism
2. At the outbreak, who were members of the Triple Entente?
Triple Alliance?
3. What type of fighting developed on the Western Front?
4. What is meant by “total war”?
5. List three reasons why Germany hated the Versailles Treaty.
6. What peace keeping group did Woodrow Wilson propose be created after
WWI? _______________________________
7. As a result of the Russian Revolution, did Russia become a major
Imperialistic power? ____________
8. What was the name of Lenin’s political party that will lead a violent
overthrow of the Russian government? ________________________
UNIT FIVE: CAUSES/COURSE OF WWII
1. Identify three weaknesses of the League of Nations.
2. Stalin’s Five Year Plans for Russia: what was the main goal of the plans?
___________________________________________________
3. How did the Dawes Plan help Germany after WWI?
4. Name three ways a fascist government controls its people. What is one
freedom they do not allow?
5. One factor that led Germans to accept Hitler was the widespread belief that
Hitler had ended what in Germany? ____________________________
6. How did the Nuremburg Laws affect Jews in Germany?
7. In August of 1939, what country signed a nonaggression pact with
Germany? _______________________
8. What did the Germans lose at the Battle of Stalingrad ?
9. Describe what happened during Kristallnacht (Nov. 9, 1938).
10. What was Hitler’s main purpose for attacking the Soviet Union?
11. Gypsies, Aryans, Slavic peoples, Jews: which group was not picked for the
ovens of the Holocaust?
12. What was the major decision to come out of the Yalta Conference?
UNIT SIX: COLD WAR/COMMUNISM
1. This was the period of political tension between the US and the Soviet
Union that dominated the post WWII era. ____________________
2. In order to protect the Soviet Union from the West, what did Stalin create to
serve as a ‘buffer’ between the two areas? ___________________________
3. According to Winston Churchill, what had ‘descended across Europe’?
_______________________
4. What was the main purpose of the Marshall Plan?
5. What was the Warsaw Pact?
6. What was the purpose for the building of the Berlin Wall?
7. Identify 3-5 Cold War conflicts. (Name one event from World History that
did not involve the Cold War.)
UNIT SEVEN: GLOBAL ISSUES
1. During Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward”, what change did he want to
bring about in China’s collective farm system?
2. What group of Chinese citizens led the protest of Communist rule during the
Tiananmen Square uprising? ____________________________
3. As a major historical moment, what did the fall of the Berlin Wall
symbolize as concerns communism and the Cold War?
4. What is the name for the racist government policy South African leaders
turned into law in 1948? ________________________
5. Independence movements in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia had one
common similarity about them: What was it?
6. Name the nation created in the Middle East in 1948 which has led to
regional conflicts with its Arab nations, wars, and conflict over land
ownership. _____________________________
7. Which US President said, “ . . .tear down the wall . . .”, and what was he
really saying?
8. What was the main outcome of the Berlin (West Africa) Conference of
1884-85?
9. What did Stalin hope to achieve by controlling all aspects of communication
(radio, newspapers, etc.)?