Transcript SOL Review Questionsx

Created by Christopher Davis, Staunton City
Schools
Information courtesy of Thomas Travato,
Louisa County Schools
Renaissance
Humanist
Wrote “In Praise of Folly”
India
Gold
Salt
Coffee
Ceramics
Compass
Silk
Tea
Porcelain
Textiles
Muslims/Arabs
(That’s why their called
Arabic numerals)
Martin
Luther
(he’s got
95 Theses, but the Pope ain’t
one)
Hates Indulgences
Bible is the only source
of truth
John
Calvin
Henry
VIII
Elizabeth
I
Catholics
Protestants
Edict
of Nantes
(issued by French King Henry IV)
Counter
Reformation
Prince
Henry
the Navigator
Vasco
da
Gama
Jacques
Cartier
Christophe
r Colombus
Magellan
Drake
Aztecs
Incas
 To
Americas – Horses, Cattle, Disease
 To Europe – Plants (Tomatoes, Potatoes,
Tobacco, Corn, etc.)
 Native (First) Americans die of disease
 European population increases
 From
Americas to Europe – raw materials
(lumber, sugar, cotton, etc.)
 From Europe to Africa – manufactured goods
 From Africa to Americas – Slaves
 Middle Passage = slave trade from Africa to
Americas
 People
– Ottomans
 City – Constantinople
 City name changed to Istanbul
Japan
Slaves
– Middle Passage
Imports – corn, peanuts,
manufactured goods
Exports – slaves, gold, ivory
Mother
countries get wealthy
from trade with colonies
during the Commercial
Revolution.
Copernicus
 Kepler
 Galileo
 Newton
 Harvey
 Pasteur
 Jenner
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Heliocentric Theory
 Laws of planetary
motion
 Proved heliocentry
theory with telescope
 Gravity, laws of
motion
 Heart circulates the
blood
 Germ theory of
disease
 Small pox vaccine
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 Who
said “I am the
state”, and built
Versailles as his
symbol of power?
 Louis XIV (14)
 Who
westernized
his country, and
built St.
Petersburg as his
symbol of power?
 Peter the Great
Oliver
Cromwell
William
Mary
&
The
Enlightenment
(aka the Age
of Reason)
 Hobbes
 Locke
 Rousseau
 Montesquie
 Voltaire
 Best
government is
absolute monarchy
 Natural rights are
Life, Liberty &
Property
 Social Contract
 Three branches of
government are
best
 Freedom of Religion
& Freedom of
Speech
Enlightenmen
t
American
Revolution
 Two
important
events of F.R.
 Storming of the
Bastille (Starts it
all)
 Reign of Terror
(starts with
execution of Louis
XVI – 16)
 Two
Results of
F.R.
 End of Absolute
Monarchy in
France
 Rise of Napoleon
 Father
Miguel
Hidalgo
 Toussaint
L’Ouverture
 Simon Bolivar
 Starts
independence
movement in
Mexico
 Starts
independence
movement in Haiti
 Starts
independence
movement in
South America
Eugene
Delacroix
Cervantes
Napoleon
Congress
Vienna
(Metternich)
of
 Who
unifies
Northern Italy
using diplomacy?
 Count Cavour
 Who
unifies
Southern Italy
through violence?
 Garibaldi
Otto
von
Bismarck
 Enclosure
movement (farmers move to cities)
 Cheap labor (those unemployed farmers)
 Natural resources (remember coal)
 Inventions (spinning jenny, flying shuttle,
steam engine)
 Eli
Whitney
 Johann Gutenburg
 James Watt
 Henry Bessemer
 Cotton
Gin
 Printing Press
 Steam Engine
 Process for making
steel
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Who gives us the ideas
of Capitalism?
Adam Smith
Other ideas from Smith
Laissez-faire (no
government
involvement)
Private ownership of
means of production
What’s his book called?
Wealth of Nations
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Who gives us the ideas
of Communism?
Karl Marx
Other ideas from Marx
Communism needs
violent revolution
Redistribution of Wealth
Government owns
means of production
What’s his book called?
Communist Manifesto
 Who
worked in
factories because
they were a
source of cheap
labor?
 Women
 Children
 What
reforms
resulted from
those labor
practices?
 Suffrage (vote) for
Women
 Child labor laws
 What
caused the
rise of labor
unions?
 Poor working
conditions in
factories
 How
did workers
get more rights
(sick time,
vacation, better
pay, better
hours)?
 Strikes
 Collective
bargaining
Markets
Materials
(raw)
Suez
Canal
Spheres
of
Influence
Trade
Enclaves
Militarism
Alliance
System
Imperialism
Nationalism
 Zimmerman
Telegram
 Germany offered alliance to Mexico if it
would invade U.S.A.
 Blames
Germany for WWI
 Germany pays reparations
 Germany has reduced military
 Creates League of Nations
 Creates Mandate System
France
– Syria &
Lebanon
Great Britain – Palestine
& Jordan
Poor
Leadership of
Nicholas II
WWI
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph
Stalin
U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union)
No
power to enforce its
decisions
United States never
joins
High
unemployment
Bank failures
Rise of totalitarian
governments
Manchuria
To
get Raw Materials
(imperialism)
Appeasement
(remember Munich
Conference)
 Germany
Invades Poland
 Fall of France
 Battle of Britain
 Germany invades Soviet Union
 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
 D-Day
 V-E Day (Germany Surrenders)
 Atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
 V-J Day (Japan surrenders)
 Armenian
Genocide – Turks kill Christians
 Holocaust – Nazis kill Jews, gypsies & others
(aka Final Solution)
 Rwanda – Hutus vs Tutsis
 Yugoslavia – Christians kill Muslims
 United
States
 Capitalism
 NATO
 Democracy
 USSR
 Communism
 Warsaw
Pact
 Totalitarianism
Communism
Korean
War (N.Korea vs
S.Korea)
Vietnam War
(N.Vietnam vs
S.Vietnam)
Cuban
Missile Crisis
Berlin
Wall
Who controls
mainland China after
the war?
 Mao (communists)
 What kind of
economy did they
have?
 Communist
 What kind of
government did they
have?
 Totalitarian
(dictatorship)
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Who controls Taiwan
(island) after the
war?
 Chiang Kai-Shek
 What kind of
economy did they
have?
 Capitalist
 What kid of
government did they
have?
 Democracy
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 Korean
Conflict
(War)
 North vs. South
 Communist vs.
Capitalist
 War ends with
Cease Fire
 Still in conflict
today
 Vietnam
War
 North vs. South
 Communist vs.
Capitalist
 War ends with
South Vietnam
defeated
 Unified country
today
India
Civil
Disobedience
Passive Resistance
United
Nations
Charter
West Africa – peaceful
independence
Algeria & Kenya –
violent independence
Apartheid
Ended
by Nelson
Mandela
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
China
&
Southeast Asia
Middle
East
North Africa
Indonesia
Israel
(Middle
East)
Siddhartha
(founder)
Ashoka (spreads)
Eightfold Path or Four
Noble Truths lead to
enlightenment
Migration
of guest
workers
Refugees
Judaism
Islam
Islam
Christianity
International
Monetary Fund
North
American Free
Trade Agreement
United
Nations
 Developed
Countries
 Lots of technology
 Low infant
mortality rate
 High GDP (gross
domestic product)
 High PCI (per
capita income)
 High literacy rate
 Developing
Countries
 Limited access to
technology
 High infant
mortality
 Low GDP
 Low PCI
 Lower literacy rate
Globalization
(think Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, etc)