World History Final Exam Instructor Dr. Abel Bartley
Ids: Write a good clear concise id answering who, what, when, and historical significance of 10 ids each worth 4 points. Each id should be at least a paragraph.
Labour Party Boer War Otto Von Bismarck
Nihilist
Social Democrats Bolsheviks Treaty of Paris
Cecil Rhodes
Aduwa Mahdi Tobacco boycott Opium Wars
Sati Taiping Rebellion Boxers
Edo
Panama Canal Platt Amendment
League of Nation Fourteen Points
Leon Trotsky Five Year Plans Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler
Enabling Act Rowlatt Act Twenty- One Demands Long March
Mao Zedong Pan Africanism Arab Revolt Apartheid
Young Turk Blitzkrieg Charles de Gaulle
Munich
Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan NATO Cuban Missile Crisis
Camp David OPEC Osama Bin Ladan Saddam Hussein
IMF Ejido United Fruit Company
Narcoeconomy
You must write a good concise essay on three of the following five essays. Each essay is worth 20 points. Make sure you demonstrate knowledge of the readings, lectures, and outside sources. Grammar and spelling errors will reduce your score. Each question should be at least be two pages long.
1. Did the revolutions in Latin America change the political, economic, and social environment? Did the revolutions in Latin America change the political, economic, and social environment? Name at least five Latin American and Caribbean leaders that have influence the world within the last eighty years. Why was the Cuban revolution a world issue or a possible start of World War III?
2. What reform efforts did the Tsars try in the period 1871-1914? Why were they unable to solve the “peasant problem”? Describe the totalitarian features of either Stalinist Russia or Hitlerian Germany. Why did Stalin triumph over Trotsky? Compare and contrast Russian domestic and foreign policy, 1945-2000 to the United States. Why did the Cold War begin and end, and who was the winner?
3. Trace the rise of India’s drive for self-rule between 1919 and 1939. Assess the costs and benefits of British imperialism in India. Assess the British response to Indian demands. In your opinion, was there any way that conflict could have been avoided? Try to assess the advantages and disadvantages of European imperialism for Africa. In your opinion, did the Europeans in the long run bring more harm or benefits to the continent? What was the significance of Pan Africanism and the end of colonialism
4. Discuss the causes of World War I. How did the entabgling alliances help lead to the war? Who were the countries fighting? How did the US get involved? How did the war change the way Europeans looked at war?
5. Discuss the major issues facing the modern world. How are Aids, climate change, and civil wars forcing nations to work together? How does the Arab/Israeli conflict play into the instability of the world?
