Modern World History: Midterm Exam Review Sheet

People: You will want to know who these people are, why they are important, and what they did.

Napoleon	Talleyrand	Louis Philippe	Napoleon III/Louis Napoleon
Giuseppe Garibaldi	Camillo di Cavour	Otto von Bismarck	Wilhelm I and II
Cecil Rhodes; Shaka; Boers	Emperor Mutsuhito	Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson	Adam Smith; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Franz Josef; Georges Clemenceau; David Lloyd George;	Vladimir Lenin; Josef Stalin; Lev Trotsky	Benito Mussolini

Terms/Concepts

You will need to be able to identify and apply the following terms. You will also want to check your notes from class and make sure that you can make connections between events and ideas – i.e. how the US “opening” of Japan, and the settlement of the Russo-Japanese contributed to tensions between the US and Japan that helped to lead toward the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Bushido Code; Samurai; Treaty of Kanagawa – including how/why the Japanese signed it; Meiji Restoration	Opium War, Treaty of Nanjing, Taiping Rebellion; Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace; Boxer Rebellion	Extraterritoriality, Settlement, Colony; Sphere of Influence	Russo-Japanese War; Settlement of that war
Unification of Italy: Sardinia; Il Risorgimento; Young Italy	Unification of Germany: Wars against Austria, Denmark, Franco-Prussian War; the settlement (hint: Reparations)	Laissez Faire; Capitalism; Socialism; Factors of production;	Union; Collective Bargaining; Strike
Reasons for Imperialism: Social Darwinism, Commerce, Conversion, Colonies	Types of Imperialism: Direct/Indirect Control; Paternalism, Assimilation	Berlin Conference – what it did and what the role of Germany was “supposed to be”	What allowed European Imperialism to succeed
The Boer War and its significance to the British (And their Empire)	India under the British: how the Indians were treated and why, religions, Sepoy Rebellion; Opium Trade with China; Jewel in the Crown; Raj	Krueger Telegram; Germany’s impact on the UK when this telegram was sent	Militarism, Nationalism, Colonialism; Fashoda
Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Central Powers, Allied Powers	Hague Conferences (what was made illegal); Schlieffen Plan – why it was such a problem	Understand the sequence of events that led up to WWI – i.e. did the alliance system really start the war	Sarajevo; How the war started and why – also – don’t include Archy Duke or any ostriches
Trench Warfare; sequence of attack; what life was like in the trenches; Restricted and unrestricted submarine warfare	Battles: Somme, Marne, Tannenberg; technology used in the war and the new stuff’s impact (airplanes, tanks, submarine)	Treaty of Versailles; contents – and why nobody liked it; 14 Points, British and French goals in the peace process; Germany’s terms	Russian Revolution: Collective Farm, Kulaks; Great Purge
Dada Mvt, Surrealism	Italy, Britain and France during the 1920s	Rapallo and Locarno treaties Kellog-Briande Pact	Fascism