Final Exam Review Sheet

His 200 Final Review (focuses on ch. 27-34 and lecture/discussion material)
Part I: Identifications (1 point each)
Provide both the meaning and the significance of the following terms. Make sure you give at least a rough indication of the time period for each term, though you do not have to give an exact year.

1. World War I
2. The Treaty of Versailles
3. The League of Nations
4. The National Socialist Party
5. trench warfare
6. World War II
7. The Holocaust
8. The Marshall Plan
9. McCarthyism / The Second Red Scare
10. The United Nations
11. George Kennan's X article
12. Containment
13. Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Voting Rights Act of 1965
14. Deterrence
15. The Korean War
16. The Vietnam War
17. the New Deal
18. OPEC
19. The Third World
20. America’s post-Cold War unipolar moment
21. existentialism
22. William J. Clinton’s foreign policies
23. the Bretton Woods institutions
24. the Cuban Missile Crisis
25. The electronic age

Part II: Short answer (3 points each)
Please answer the following using complete sentences. Answers should be one to several sentences each.
1. What were the causes of the cold war?
2. How and why, despite the cold war, did Western Europe recover so successfully from the ravages of war and Nazism?
3. Why, after a generation, did Western economies shift into reverse gear, and what were some of the social consequences of the reversal?
4. Why did a reform movement eventually triumph in Eastern Europe in 1989 and bring an end to the cold war?
5. What cold war tradeoffs between anticommunism and anticolonialism did the United States make?
6. How did Japan recover so quickly after its total defeat in World War II to become an economic superpower?
7. What is the global political situation in the early twenty-first century, and how do competing nation-states address common problems?
8. What are some of the underlying causes of the great gaps between rich and poor in the world today?
9. What key technological and scientific developments have had the greatest impact on life at the beginning of the new millennium?
10. What are China’s strengths and challenges in the first part of this new millennium?

Part III: Essay (22.5 points each)
Please select two of the following essay prompts and write an approximately one-and-a- half-page well-organized essay addressing each one. Please title each essay creatively and specifically.

1. Trace different countries’ views towards the national government’s role in providing for social welfare policies from the days of the Great Depression to today. Which country or countries’ do you think are “getting it right”?

2. To what extent was the push for African-American rights in the developed or First World from the 1950s through the 1970s a continuation of a century-long struggle for full citizenship, and to what extent was it a unique outgrowth of the post-WWII period?

3. Since the end of World War II, the Cold War has shaped the history of the United States and the world. What caused the Cold War, and how did it affect Americans at home and abroad from the end of the Second World War through the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1986?

4. Some events in American history have produced controversies that have sharply divided Americans. Construct an essay that analyzes how the New Deal, McCarthyism, and desegregation all created deep rifts in American society, and the terms on which the controversies they created were resolved.

5. Discuss the effects of technological advaces since 1990.

6. Hindsight is 20/20. What have we learned about isolationism versus interventionism from studying world history in a revisionist vein since 1900?