2nd Semester Final Exam Review

As you know, the Nation Analysis Paper constitutes 50% of your final exam grade.  The remaining 50% is the written final exam.  

Here's the format for the final exam:
Part I: Multiple Choice 48 (x 1 point each)   *Approximately half of the questions will come from Unit 10

Part II: Identification 16 (x 2 points each)  * 75% will come from Unit 10

Click here for the Review Sheet

Today's Frame- Propaganda

How do language and images shape people's emotions?  How and why was this critical during WWII?

Today's Frame- Fascism

Using our buckets, what conditions led to the rise of fascism in Italy and the Nazi party in Germany in the interwar period?

Today's Frame- Nationalism and Post-Colonialism

How does self-determination (nationalist movements) inspire decolonization throughout Asia, Africa, and the Middle East following the world wars?

Today's Frame- Totalitarianism

How and why does totalitarianism shape both extreme leftist movements (Communism) and extreme rightist movements (Fascism)?

Today's Frame- A Different Kind of War

The Great War was a new kind of war that broke new ground and surprised everybody involved: it was both the world's first "global" war and the first "total" war.  What key factors produced these results, forever changing the face of war and conflict?

Today's Frame- Causes of WWI

What are the precise underlying and immediate causes of the The Great War? 

Today's Frame- Modernist Culture

Much of what we consider "Modern" today stems backs to the late 19th century/turn of the 20th century.  While "modern" thought has its roots in the Renaissance, Modernism is more of a 20th century phenomenon.

Let's consider the impact of "Modernism" on the following aspects of culture:

Art 
Architecture
Literature
Music
Technology and Communication

Today's Frame- Imperialism

What conditions led to the European “Scramble for Africa” during the 19^th century?

Primary sources:

The White Man's Burden, Rudyard Kipling

Heart of Darkness excerpt, Joseph Conrad

Imperialism Sample Treaty

Today's Frame- Nationalism continued

How was nationalism a transformative force- capable of remaking the map by creating new nation-states and dismembering others?

Today's Frame- Nationalism

How and why did the modern ideas of “the nation” and the “nation-state” develop during 19^th-century Europe?

Click here for the Nation Table

Today's Frame- Socialism, Capitalism, and Communism

How do these competing economic systems from the 18th and 19th century continue to shape the U.S. and the world? Why are these economic theories intrinsically liked to our other buckets, like social systems and political systems?

Today's Frame- Industrial Revolution

What conditions in 18th-century England paved the way for the Industrial Revolution?  What made the process of industrialization "revolutionary"?

Today's Frame- The Congress of Vienna

How was the Congress of Vienna a conservative response to the liberal/revolutionary legacy of the French Revolution- and how and why did it advocate for a new spirit of international cooperation?

Today's Frame- Napoleon

Napoleon is a very polarizing figure: he committed great harm against Europe while also bringing Enlightenment/ French Revolutionary ideals to areas still practicing a form of medieval feudalism. How can we assess Napoleon’s effects on continental Europe by explaining both his greatest mistakes and best-known contributions?

Today's Frame- Origins of the French Revolution

Using our buckets, what are the chief conditions that led to the French Revolution?

• Political
• Social
• Economic

Today's Frame- The Enlightenment Spreads

How did Enlightenment ideas influence the culture of Western Europe?  From art, architecture, literature, music, political thought, etc., the movement had a profound effect.

Today's Frame- Enlightenment

How did the Enlightenment extrapolate the gains made in rational and logical thought and apply those ideas throughout society?

John Locke and Thomas Hobbes Primary Source

Today's Frame- The Scientific Revolution

How does science challenge a society’s understanding of the world as well as its values and convictions?  ... And how does Galileo's story epitomize this phenomenon?

Today's Frame- English Constitutionalism

English events, including the English Civil War, The Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution contributed to the world's first constitutional monarchy and limitation placed upon monarchs in Europe.  How did these disparate events ultimately lead England down the path of constitutionalism?

Today's Frame- Tsarist Russia

Why did Peter The Great seek to "westernize" Russia- and what was the overall impact?

Today's Frame- The Nation-State

What conditions led to the development of the nation-state in Western Europe? And why is Westphalia credited with the ultimate creation of the modern state as we know it?

Here's a link to the "Nation Table" document we will beusing for the remainder of the semester.

Today's Frame- Spain's Rise and Fall

How and why did Spain rise to a dominant position in Europe, only to crash down rapidly- all within a century or so?

Today's Frame- transatlantic slave trade

How were the transatlantic slave trade and the triangular trade inextricably linked to the colonization of the "New World" by the Europeans?

Today's Frame- Columbian Exchange

Why did the Columbian Exchange represent a profoundly heightened level of global integration of the world after the turn of the 16th century?  

The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.  This World's Fair celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus' maiden voyage.  NOTE: it has nothing to do with the Columbian Exchange itself per se.

Today's Frame- Spanish Conquest

What do the stories of Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs and Pizarro's conquest of the Inca tell us about Spanish motives in the "New World"?  Whose voices do we hear- and what connections can be made to Jared Diamond's central thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

Today's Frame- Iberian Exploration.... and Memes!

Today's Frame: How were Iberian explorers motivated by “God, Gold, and Glory” during the Age of Exploration?

And a "meme" below:

Today's Frame- West Africa

In West Africa, civilization flowered in the sahel, ultimately growing into the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires.  What were the dominant cultural characteristics of these empires?

Today's Frame: Ancient Civilizations of Latin America

How did the unique geography of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca affect the development of each civilization?

Final Exam Review Sheet

As promised, here it is.  Know that this a working document and its contents will change over the next few days.  We will start using this together in class next week. Note: you are not expected to do anything with this document until review formally begins next week.  I am sharing it as a courtesy to those that asked for it.

It includes all targets and terms aligned with readings.  The italicized bullet points represent our main focus in preparation for the exam.  It is expected that you will make a copy of this and build your own review sheet using this one as a starting point or template.

Here's the review sheet: (Click here)

Today's Frame- Luther and the Reformation

What underlying conditions led to Martin Luther's 95 Theses, effectively launching the Protestant Reformation?  And... what was the overall impact of Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Aglicanism in each respective society?

Martin Luther