Thursday, May 5, 2011

ENRICHED + HONORS: 1800s/WWI test study guide + review questions

Please study hard for tomorrow's test!  It will be challenging.

Test study guide: click here (Google document; may need to sign in to Google).
Test review questions: click here (Google document; may need to sign in to Google).  Questions are also pasted below; answers to all questions can be found in the test study guide:



1.Provide two examples of push factors and two examples of pull factors.
2.What is an example of a major migration in the 19th century (1800s)?
3.Why did do much urbanization occur in the U.S. and Europe after the Industrial Revolution?  (Hint: what is urbanization?  Why do people migrate?)
4.Define: abolition; suffrage; Zionism; Anti-Semitism; imperialism; nationalism
5.List two examples of nationalist movements in the 1800s.
6.What is the principle of self-rule (a.k.a. self-determination)?
7.Sketch a rough map of Europe in 1914, placing the following countries in their proper
8.What were the two main European alliances just before World War I, and who were their members?
9.List two examples of technologies used for the first time in World War I.
10.Describe Germany and Britain’s naval conflict in World War I (e.g., each country’s attempt to blockade the other by sea)
11.List and describe three long-term causes of World War I (hint: “MAIN”)
12.What event in June 1914 is thought to be the major short-term cause of WWI?
13.Describe the chain of events leading from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Serbia lead to Germany’s invasion of France
14.Define: mobilization; stalemate; Western Front; armistice
15.What was the Zimmerman telegram, and what effect did it have on the war?
16.In the Russian Revolution of 1917, who came to power, and what did they believe in?  Whom did they overthrow?
17.Define: collective security; inflation; reparations
18.Describe key elements of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended WWI (1919).  In what ways did the Treaty help pave the way for WWII?

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