PLEASE NOTE: THE FINAL EXAM FOR  DR. LEWIS' HISTORY 102 WILL BE IN THE WICOMICO ROOM

Review Sheet for Third Exam
History 102
 

I. Identifications

Kennan Telegram                                 Truman Doctrine                                 Archduke Ferdinand          

Treaty of Versailles                               Hitler                                                      Fascism                   

Mein Kampf                                          Lebensraum                   Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Mussolini                                               Auschwitz                                            Winston Churchill

Realpolitik                                             Franklin D. Roosevelt                         Joseph  Stalin

Containment                                         Marshall Plan                                        McCarthyism

Military-Industrial Complex             Anti-colonialism                                     Superman

Iron Curtain                                    Politics of Morality                               Mahatma Gandhi        

Indian Partition  (look in your book)         Vladimir Lenin                                        Sputnik

Sun Yat-Sen                                   Bolsheviks                                                  Jawaharlal Nehru 

Mao Zedong                         Indian National Congress          Lenin’s plan for 3rd World Revolutions

Land Reform                                       Balfour Declaration                            Gulags

Kerala                                      Ho Ch Minh                               Arbenz and Guatamala

Banana Republics                               Bay of Pigs                                        Good Neighbor policy

Zapata                                     Salvador Allende                     United Fruit Company

Prince ibn Saud                                        Sadamm Hussein                                 "Dulce et Decorum Est"           

Bandung Conference                      Non-Aligned Movement                  Hungary uprising 1956

Korean War                                         NATO                                                  United Nations

Bangladesh                                        Patrice Lumumba                                14 points

Democratic Recession                Sharif Husayn                                        Wahhabism

al Qaeda                                        Axis of Evil                                               Osama bin Laden

Greater Syria                                Cuban Missile Crisis                               Prague Spring 1968

1)Could you make the argument that the destruction and death of the twentieth century had its roots in European global imperialism and expansion since 1450?  How do you link these different events and times? What do you see in WWI, WW II or the Cold War which echoes earlier themes in this class?  (consider why and how Japan and Germany go to war in WW II, and the European causes of and responses to WW I.)

2.) Imagine a debate between two people.  One is a US citizen, the other is from a developing, post-colonial nation.  The US citizen is trying to defend western (US and European) actions in the twentieth century as supporters of democracy and liberty; the other is attacking the West as a force for oppression during the twentieth century.  Describe this debate. How would each person attempt to prove their points?  What historical examples would they use? On what historical interpretations would they differ?  Who, in your opinion, would win the debate?

3.) How did the Cold War and Anti-Colonialism/Nationalism in the Third World intersect in the second half of the twentieth century?  What were some of the consequences of these two simultaneous world trends?  How did it matter to the U.S., to the USSR, and to the Third World? Use specific examples in proving your points.

4.) Describe how, and why, the “imperial” age both comes of age and comes to a close in the twentieth century.  Use examples from different parts of the world in making your case. Could you argue that "imperial" attitudes and policies persist in the world in spite of the end of formal imperialism? 

5.) On the first day of class, we discussed the ten largest nation-states in the world, by area and population.  We discussed which societies were generally ignored or unknown to the class, and which societies were "over-estimated" in area and population, if not in importance.  We then looked at the twenty wealthiest societies in the world, per capita - the European and Euro-based societies dominated that list.  I suggested to you that the story of this course would be the story of how we might understand those lists - how a people both numerically and area-wise that are but a small part of the world came to dominate the world's resources and wealth.  So, imagine that over the summer your parent(s) ask you - "So, now that you've taken World Civ II, why is the world divided (in wealth, power, and population) in the way that it is? Why are Asia, Africa, and Latin America so poor and populous, though rich in natural resources, while Europe is rich but with a smaller population and less resources? And how is it that the US managed to be the only country on all three lists - both rich in resources, as well as rich and populous?  What are the implications of these divisions for world politics during your lifetime?"  Give me your answer. Remember, you parent(s) are paying your tuition, so make the answer good!

6.) Consider 9/11. How many links to this course's themes can you make from the historical trends that led to this event and the global reaction in the six years since then?

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