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WORLD HISTORY HONORS STUDY GUIDES

 

Marking Period 1 - Unit One Study Guide

 

Academic Essay opening paragraph                           Academic Essay body paragraph

 Protestant Reformation                                           Connecting Enlightenment to age of revolution

Latin American class hierarchy                               Effects of the Renaissance

Divine Right                                                               

John Locke                                                                Jean Jacques Rousseau

Effects of Enlightenment                                          9-11 terrorist targets

Effects of French Revolution                                     Effects of the printing press

 Latin American Independence movement               

Thomas Hobbs                                                            Enlightenment

 Baron de Montesquieu                                             Louis XIV

Constitution-Presidential term limit                          The Reign of Terror

Simon Bolivar                                                            Events beginning modern world

Mary Wollstoncraft                                                   Parliamentary Monarchy

Absolutism                                                                 Constitution - making law

Mercantislism                                                             Columbian Exchange                

                                                                                   English Bill of Rights

Atlantic slave trade.                                                Geography of North America

Geography of South America                                  Habeas Corpus Act

 

 

Marking Period 2 - Unit Two Study Guide

 

 

Agricultural Revolution                                       Factors of production

 Effects of Industrial Revolution                         Realist Art

Factory system                                                    Effects of mass production

Business cycle                                                    Napoleon

Capitalism (Free enterprise system)                 Reign of Terror

 Industrial Revolution                                        Why Great Britain led Industrial Revolution

Socialism                                                              Proletarians

Child labor                                                           Effects of imperialism

Scramble for Territory in Africa                          Steam engine                                                         

White Man's burden                                             Henry Bessemer

European motives for imperialism                     Communism

Effects of colonialism in Africa                          Industrial Revolution inventors

Effects of the French Revolution                       Leaders of Latin American independence

Geography of Africa                                            Nationalism

Geography of Europe                                         Interchangeable Parts

Effects Agricultural Revolution                         

 

 

 

Marking Period 3 - Unit Three Study Guide

 

Communism                                                          Rise of Fascist Government

Fascism                                                                 Soviet Union under Stalin

Chinese Communist Revolution                            Holocaust

Causes of rise of dictatorships                             Appeasement

Effects of Treaty of Versailles                              World War I Trench Warfare

 Rise of the Nazi Party                                           Ideologies Axis Poers

Causes of Japanese Imperialism                            Mohandas Gandhi

Munich Pact.                                                        Non-Aggression Pact

Axis Powers                                                             Lend-Lease Act

Effects of Operation Barbarrosa                             Final Solution

Causes for Pearl Harbor                                  American use of the atomic bomb

Tolitarianism                                                          D-Day

Operation Overlord                                               Nuremberg Laws

Evacuation at Dunkirk                                           Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler                                                            Blitzkreig

Causes of WW II                                                   Invasion of Poland

Atlantic Charter                                                    Geography of Asia

Geography of Pacific Area     

 

 

Marking Period 4 - Unit Four Study Guide  

 

Berlin Airlift                                                          Purpose of United Nations

Containment Policy                                             U.S. reaction to Sputnik

Gandhi, King, and Manadela: What made non-violence work?

Truman Doctrine                                                  Marshall Plan

U-2 Incident                                                          Glasnost and Perestroka

Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe (Creating Iron Curtain)

Alliance of Progress                         Eastern European Independence Movements

NATO                                                                     Nuclear Arms Race

Chinese Communist Revolution                        Mohandas Gandi

Apartheid                                                             Nicolae Ceausescu

Lech Walesa                                                        Berlin Wall

Proxy Wars                                             Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Bay of Pigs                                                          Cold War

Korean War                                                         Vietnam War

Socialism                                                            Cuban Missile Crisis

Purpose of Allied occupation of Germany after World War II

End of the Cold War                                          Capitalism

Russian invasion Afghanistan                         Warsaw Pact

 

 

UNITED STATES HISTORY II STUDY GUIDES

 

Unit One Test -  Study Guide

 

Self determination                                                 Imperialism

Propaganda                                                            Reparations

Nineteenth Amendment                                        Eighteenth Amendment

National Origins Act                                             Emergency Quota Law

Recession                                                                Stock Speculation

Buying on Margin                                                 Banking Panic

Motivation for American imperialism                Causes Spanish-American War

"Big Stick Policy"                                                 American Panama Canal Zone control

Causes U.S. enter World War I                           Treaty of Versailles

Causes booming economy 1920s                          Post war problems in U.S.

Causes post World War I recession                     Changing traditional values of the 1920s

Harlem Renaissance                                              Scopes Trial

Effects of Great Depression                                  Causes of Stock Market crash

Dust Bowl                                                               Rugged Individualism

First Hundred Days                                               Social Security Act

Effect of New Deal on role of government           Selective Servise Act

 

 

 

Unit Two Test - Study Guide

 

Holocaust                                                            Kamikaze

Lend-Lease                                                         Atlantic Charter

Socialism                                                             Totalitarianism

Equality                                                               Collectivism

Capitalism                                                           Democracy

Individualism                                                      Ideology

Appeasement Policy                                           Causes of Pearl Harbor attack

Pearl Harbor Address                                        Yalta Conference

V-E Day                                                                D-Day

Battle of the Bulge                                               Role of women during World War II

Japanese Internment Camps                              Operation Overlord

U.S. use of atomic bomb                                      Harry S. Truman

Douglas MacArthur firing                                  Truman Doctrine

Causes of Korean War                                        Marshall Plan

22nd Amendment                                                 Traditional Republican economic policies

Effects of Sputnik                                                 U-2 incident

 

 

Uniy Three Test - Study Guide

 

Thurgood Marshall                                          Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.                                   Malcolm X

Richard Nixon                                                  Lyndon Johnson

Gerald Ford                                                      Jimmy Carter

Watergate                                                         Detente

Camp David Accords                                      Paris Peace Accords

Brown v. Board of Education                         Little Rock Nine

Montgomery Bus Boycott                               Significant of churches to Civil Rights movement

Civil Rights Act 1964                                      Voting Rights Act of 1965

Election of 1960                                                Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis                                        Effects of Berlin Crisis

Kennedy assassination                                     Great Society

Tet Offensive                                                    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Counterculture                                                 SALT

Gerald Ford unelected President                   Vietamization

Carter - Panama treaty                                   Civil disobedience

26th Amendment                                              Executive privilege

 

Unit Four Test - Study Guide

 

Impeachment process                                     Watergate

SALT Treaty                                                    Detente

18th Amendment                                             Causes high inflation in 1970s

SALT II                                                            Arab oil embargo

Supply side economics                                    Reagan's Defense Policy

Panama Canal treaties                                   Entitlement Programs

Deregulation                                                   Effect of Nixon parden

Reagan conservative policies                         Iraq invasion of Kuwait                 

Brandenburg Gate Speech                             U.S. involvement El Salvador/Nicaragua

Persian Gulf War                                            Election 1984

Election 1992                                                   Clinton impeachment

Operation Desert Storm                                 Reagan foreign policy

Clinton Presidency                                          Contract with America (1994)

Election 2000                                                   National Debt issue

Barack Obama Presidency                            Elements of War on terrorism

George W. Bush Presidency                          Election 2008 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act  Nixon's trip to China

Affordable Care Act                                       26th Amendment

9/11                                                                   Perjury

War in Afghanistan