Terms and Names
Cubism                           March Revolution (1917)                   Treaty of Versailles               War Reparations
V.I. Lenin                        Joseph Stalin                                   New Economic Policy           Five Year Plans
Benito Mussolini              Blitzkrieg                                        Great Depression                  Weimar Republic
Adolph Hitler                    Nazism                                           Kristallnacht                         Spanish Civil War
Munich Agreement (1938) Holocaust                                        Battle of Stalingrad               Midway
Hiroshima                        Cold War                                        GATT                                   Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
NATO                              Warsaw Pact                                  Truman Plan                         Sputnik
Sputnik                           Decolonization                                 Albert Camus                       Indochina
Berlin                              Détente                                          OPEC                                 European Economic Community
Mao Zedong                     Mohandas Gandhi                           PLO                                    Apartheid
perestroika                      ethnic cleansing                               Yalta Conference                 Michel Foucault

Possible Essay Questions
1. A number of historians argue that World War II was a delayed continuation of World War I.  What factors would lead historians to this argument?  Do you agree or disagree?
2. From the time of Louis XIV through Napoleon and on to the age of Hitler and Stalin, different individuals and groups have sought to gain absolute power in their nations.  Yet in each instance, these forces have eventually been defeated by the forces of liberalism.  Explain how liberalism has affected political, social, and economic thought over the last 350 years.
3. After World War I, Russia, Italy, and Germany created new forms of government.  What features did these new governments have in common?  In what respects did they most significantly differ?
4. Did the possession of nuclear weapons limit or strenghten the power of the United States and the Soviet Union to shape the world to suit their own ends?  Discuss in reference to events in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
5. Although it may sometimes be hard to recognize, the world we live in today (yes, even here in Lynchburg) was greatly shaped by our predecessors, from the Reformation through the end of the Cold WAr.  In your opinion, which group or event played the largest role in shaping the way in which we live today?  (You might want to consider the Scientific Revolutin, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, Modernization, the Russian Revolution, the World Wars, or the Cold War, among others.)  Whichever you choose—and there is no wrong or right answer necessarily—you must be prepared to support your argument with evidence
 
 
 

TEST FORMAT:  The test will consist of 60 multiple choice questions and tow essay.  The essay questions on the test will come from this study guide, but the multiple choice can come from any of the three study guides.  Note however, that I may ask multiple choice questions from the essay topics and the essay on the test will be rephrased (but will come from one of these topics).

STUDY HINT:  As you study, you will notice that most of the names and terms in part one are linked somehow to one or more of the essay questions.  It is a good idea to make note of these links when studying and try to incorporate what you have learned about specific people or things into your essays.  It helps get you those extra points.