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

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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?