ENRICHED + HONORS: Final exam study guide

The study guide for the Honors World History exam is here.  

While I do not have an electronic copy of the Enriched study guide to upload, it is just a shortened version of the Honors study guide, so that will work if you need it until you get another copy of the handout.

Good luck, and happy studying!  Remember that Cold War reading notes are due Tuesday, and Tuesday is also the non-negotiable LAST day to turn in any late work or extra credit.  Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

ALL: Summer opportunity: Free half-day economics seminar in Auburn, Alabama 6/10

Students who enjoy social studies, want to learn more about economics (which you take next year), and want a credential to add to their resumes and college applications should consider the following opportunity:

How Markets Work: High-School Seminar in Auburn (Sponsored by Jeremy Davis)

June 10, 2011
Auburn, Alabama

"The Mises Institute educates young students through our website and publications. Here is a half-day seminar just for high-school students...

There is no charge at all for this event for high-school students and their chaperones/teachers. It does provide an excellent introduction to the whole field of economics and why it matters to understand history and society and the ups and downs of civilization itself. Without economic understanding, we are left without a critical tool for understanding vast amounts of the social sciences.

The high-school years are the perfect time to begin to introduce economic logic as a discipline. But too often, economics is presented as if it has nothing to do with real life. In fact, it is important to every area of life, as this seminar will show.

Come join us to discover the theory and application of such critical concepts in economics as exchange, opportunity cost, the division of labor, entrepreneurship, and inflation.

Sessions take place in Condon Lecture Hall of the Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama.  Go here for driving directions."

More information: http://mises.org/events/151

ENRICHED: Deadlines and Reminders, 5/17

Enriched Deadlines:

Weds 5/18 - World War II "Global Conflict" reading notes due
Fri 5/20 - World War II timeline due; test corrections due
Tues 5/24 - The Nuclear Age: Cold War reading notes due; last day to turn in any late/missing work

A study guide for the final exam will be passed out tomorrow. The final exam will cover the following topics:

* = Especially large portion of exam

-Renaissance
-Reformation
-Age of Exploration
-Scientific Revolution
-Enlightenment
-French and American Revolutions
-Imperialism
-World War I*
-Post-WWI depression and the rise of fascism*
-World War II*
-Cold War*

HONORS: Deadlines and reminders, 5/17

Deadlines:

Weds 5/18 - World War II reading notes due
Fri 5/20 - World War II timeline due; test corrections due
Tues 5/24 - The Nuclear Age: Cold War reading notes due; last day to turn in any late/missing work; Big Era 9 optional extra credit reading notes due

A study guide for the final exam will be passed out tomorrow. The final exam will cover the following topics:

* = Especially large portion of exam

-Renaissance
-Reformation
-Age of Exploration
-Scientific Revolution
-Enlightenment
-French and American Revolutions
-Imperialism
-World War I*
-Post-WWI depression and the rise of fascism*
-World War II*
-Cold War*

HONORS + ENRICHED: Last-minute extra credit opportunities

All extra credit must be turned in no later than Weds, 5/25.

HONORS:
-Optional reading notes on Big Era 9 (1945-present).
-Extra work / going above and beyond on WWII timeline assignment.
-Optional map test with final exam.

ENRICHED:
-Extra work / going above and beyond on WWII timeline assignment.
-Optional map test with final exam.

ENRICHED: 1800s + WWI test corrections

All test corrections are due Friday, 5/20. You must attach a copy of your original test to the corrections to receive credit - no exceptions! If you've lost the original test, you will need to do corrections for the entire test.

Test corrections offer students an opportunity to earn back up to half of the points they missed (excluding the map section) and dramatically improve their grade. Standards for test corrections are very high - "winging it" or rushing isn't enough; I have to see clear evidence that you have invested additional time in understanding the concept tested in order to give you credit.

-**IMPORTANT: If you use an online dictionary or other source, you must put the definition in your own words and cite the source - anything else is plagiarism and will receive no credit. The only sources you should need are the study guide and the reading packets.**

-For each matching question you are correcting, provide a definition in your own words of the key concept listed below as well as either (a) an extended explanation (more detail) of that concept or (b) an example of that concept.
-For each multiple choice question you are correcting, write the correct answer and explain why it is correct.
-For each short answer / essay question you are correcting, rewrite your entire answer after researching the topic.

I. Matching

1. Zionism
2. racism
3. nationalism
4. U-boat
5. blockade
6. arms race
7. stalemate
8. armistice
9. Anti-Semitism
10. alliance
11. suffrage
12. imperialism
13. Bolshevik
14. abolition

II. More Matching

15. Woodrow Wilson
16. Vladimir Lenin
17. Franz Ferdinand
18. Czar Nicholas II

III. Short Answer


19. Name/describe one major human migration since 1500, and describe one push factor and one pull factor motivating the migration. (If you can’t think of any migrations, try to use your reasoning; look for possibilities in this test). (3 points)

20. For each of the following countries, write “A” if they fought on the side of the Allies and “C” if they fought on the side of the Central Powers in World War I (1914-19). (.5 each, 3 total) [NOTE: IF YOU ARE DOING CORRECTIONS ON THIS SECTION, YOU MUST EXPLAIN HOW EACH COUNTRY YOU GOT WRONG BECAME INVOLVED IN THE WAR].

a) Germany
b) U.S.
c) Russia
d) Austria-Hungary
e) Great Britain
f) France

HONORS: 1800s & WWI Test Corrections

All test corrections are due Friday, 5/20. You must attach a copy of your original test to the corrections to receive credit - no exceptions! If you've lost the original test, you will need to do corrections for the entire test.

Test corrections offer students an opportunity to earn back up to half of the points they missed (excluding the map section) and dramatically improve their grade. Standards for test corrections are very high - "winging it" or rushing isn't enough; I have to see clear evidence that you have invested additional time in understanding the concept tested in order to give you credit.

-**IMPORTANT: If you use an online dictionary or other source, you must put the definition in your own words and cite the source - anything else is plagiarism and will receive no credit. The only sources you should need are the study guide and the reading packets.**

-For each matching question you are correcting, provide a definition in your own words of the key concept listed below as well as either (a) an extended explanation (more detail) of that concept or (b) an example of that concept.
-For each multiple choice question you are correcting, write the correct answer and explain why it is correct.
-For each short answer / essay question you are correcting, rewrite your entire answer after researching the topic.

I. Matching

1. Zionism
2. raw materials
3. racism
4. nationalism
5. inflation
6. Zimmerman Telegram
7. war guilt clause
8. U-boat
9. blockade
10. arms race
11. stalemate
12. armistice
13. Anti-Semitism
14. alliance
15. suffrage
16. imperialism
17. Bolshevik
18. abolition

II. More Matching

19. Woodrow Wilson
20. Vladimir Lenin
21. Karl Marx
22. Franz Ferdinand
23. Czar Nicholas II
24. Adam Smith

III. Short Answer

25. Name/describe one major human migration between the years 1800-1920, and describe one push factor and one pull factor motivating the migration. (If you can’t think of any migrations, try to use your reasoning; look for possibilities in this test). (3 points)

26. List one cause and one result/outcome of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). (2 points)

27. For each of the following countries, write “A” if they fought on the side of the Allies and “C” if they fought on the side of the Central Powers in World War I (1914-19). (.5 each, 4 total) [NOTE: IF YOU ARE DOING CORRECTIONS ON THIS SECTION, YOU MUST EXPLAIN HOW EACH COUNTRY YOU GOT WRONG BECAME INVOLVED IN THE WAR].

a) Germany
b) U.S.
c) Russia
d) Austria-Hungary
e) Great Britain
f) France
g) Serbia
h) Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

ENRICHED/HONORS: WWII Timeline Homework Assignment

You can make a timeline on paper or on the computer. You must choose ten major events of the war from the lists below (five from the European War, five from the Pacific War), identify their dates, read about them in your reading packets or the textbook, and then write them out in order with 1 paragraph descriptions of each event. DUE: Next Friday at latest.

For extra credit, you can do a more extended/visually attractive version of this on posterboard or Powerpoint, using images obtained from the Internet.

Include ten of the following (five from each theater of war):

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?