History 152 Final Test.History 152 Final Test.Part A.Part A. Locate the following countries and identify their modern capitals (20 points):

Rwanda Sudan Cameroon Angola South Africa Kenya Libya Ethiopia Madagascar Somalia Mozambique Ghana Morocco Algeria Nigeria

Part B. Write one identification essay on the following (30 points):

Nasser OPEC Mandela Jacobo Arbenz Che Camp David Treaty Khomeini Apartheid Peron

NAFTA Pinochet PLO

Part C. Write one comprehensive essay on the following (50 points): 1. After World War II most After World War II most countries in the Middle East failed to establish viable economies and stable political

systems. Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, 2. In your opinion, what particular factors have contributed to the prevailing economic problems and fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. Despite numerous efforts, most Latin American countries today are still struggling to build viable economies and stable political systems. In your opinion, what are the main factors that inhibited these efforts? Support your assertions with specific examples.

4. US policies in Latin America have fluctuated from the “Dollar Diplomacy” to NAFTA. In your opinion, what was the general effect of these policies on the region? Support your assertions with specific examples.

Test 5.Test 5.

Part A (20 points)Part A (20 points). Locate the following countries and identify their capitals: Pakistan India China N. Korea S. Korea Japan Burma Thailand Laos Cambodia Vietnam Malaya Indonesia Philippines Taiwan

Part BPart B. Write an identification essay on the following (30 points)(30 points):

Stalin Collectivization Co-Prosperity Sphere Prague Spring Korean War Khrushchev Solidarity movement Chernobyl’ Rape of NankingLiving Thoughts of Chairman Mao Indira Ghandhi ”Great Leap Forward”

Part B. Write a comprehensive essay in response to Write a comprehensive essay in response to oneone of the following (50 points). Cite your of the following (50 points). Cite your source and provide specific examples:source and provide specific examples:

1. Michail Gorbachev’s “perestroika” and “glasnost’” reforms effectively led to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Why?

2. What were the main aspects of Japan’s “economic miracle”? How successful was it?

3. What were the main principles of Deng Xiaoping’s “Four Modernization” program? How successful was it?

4. India’s modernization program was rooted in the mixture of capitalism and socialism? How did it work? How successful was it?

History 152 Test 4. Identify History 152 Test 4. Identify oneone of the following: of the following:

Part. A. Identify the following items (40 points):Versailles Peace Treaty Spanish Civil War DecolonizationKorean War Fascism ChaplinSolidarity Berlin Airlift EUThatcher Globalization Guernica

Part B. Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following (60 points). Cite your source Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following (60 points). Cite your source and provide specific examples:and provide specific examples:

1. The Great War left the most profound impact on the 20th century. In your opinion, what were its most important ramifications? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. The two World Wars brought a number of cumulative changes in the governments and societies of their major participants. According to the text, what were the most important of these changes? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. Some of the 20th century’s most noted figures (Yeats, Wiesel, Picasso, Camus, Ghandi, Szymborska) have bitterly criticized the concepts of “civilization” and “progress” in the light of the uses and misuses of technology since 1914. With a specific reference to one of these personalities, discuss the main points of this critique.

4. In your opinion, who or what should be blamed for the Cold War? What were its most profound effects? Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Test 3. History 152 Test 3.

Part A. Part A. Locate the following countries. Indicate their modern capitals and the countries that had colonized them in the 19th century (30 points):

Algeria Libya Sudan Ethiopia Somalia Nigeria CameroonKenya Angola Mozambique Congo/Zaire Rwanda

Part. B. Identify the following items (30 points): Socialism Marxism Social Darwinism “Scramble for Africa” Zionismunification of Italy feminism Meiji Colonialism BismarckChartist movement Reform Act of 1832 Opium Wars

Part C. Write a comprehensive essay on the following and cite your source (40 points):

1. How do you understand the concept of “industrial revolution”? What is so “revolutionary” about it? What were its positive and negative effects? Support your assertions with specific examples. 2.The 19th century is often called the “century of the middle class.” How do you explain this term? Support your assertions with specific examples. 3. Examine the connection between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of new political ideologies in the 19 th century. Support your assertions with specific examples.  4. Explain the basic tenets of Marxism and the reasons for its attraction to so many people around the world. Support your assertions with specific examples.  5. What were the main driving forces of colonialism in the 19 th century? What ideas and arguments were employed to justify it? Support your assertions with specific examples. 6. Explain the term “nationalism” and compare its different manifestations in the 19 th Europe and Asia. Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Test 2History 152 Test 2 Part I. Identify Part I. Identify oneone of the following (30 points): of the following (30 points):

Fernand BraudelFernand Braudel Voltaire Voltaire Atlantic systemAtlantic system Napoleon Napoleon Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Rousseau Montesquieu Polynesia John Locke Glorious Revolution Vienna Congress Enlightenment

Part II. Write a comprehensive essay on Part II. Write a comprehensive essay on oneone of the following and of the following and cite your sourcecite your source::

1. 1. In your opinion, what were the most profound repercussions of slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean basin between 1500 and 1800? How did slavery affect the Western world? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, what were the most profound repercussions of the demographic shifts in the world system between 1500 and 1800? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-193. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19thth centuries most closely centuries most closely reflected the “general will” of the population? Support your assertions with specific examples.

4. According to the Western concept of the American revolution, it reflected the “general will” of the colonies. The proponents of Marxism, however, argue that a group of wealthy merchants and businessmen simply utilized the revolutionary ideology to pursue their selfish interests. In your opinion, which concept (Western or Marxist) seems more convincing to you? In your opinion, which concept (Western or Marxist) seems more convincing to you? Support your assertions with specific examples.

5. The French revolution began as a movement to establish a constitutional monarchy on the 5. The French revolution began as a movement to establish a constitutional monarchy on the model of the Glorious Revolution, but ultimately ended up with the rise of Napoleon. Why? model of the Glorious Revolution, but ultimately ended up with the rise of Napoleon. Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.

6. Analyze the following statement: “although the Latin American revolutions resulted in the establishment of independent republics on the model of the United States, in many aspects these were the least “revolutionary” of the Atlantic revolutions.” Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Test 1History 152 Test 1Write a comprehensive essay in response to the Write a comprehensive essay in response to the

following:following: 1. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 1. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 1500

and 1700. In your opinion, what were the most important features of this development? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces and ramifications of 2. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces and ramifications of the European geographic explorations? Support your arguments with the European geographic explorations? Support your arguments with specific examples.specific examples.

3. 3. Compare and contrast the geographic explorations of one Catholic and one Protestant state in the 16th-18th centuries. Which one was more successful? Why? Support your arguments with specific examples.Support your arguments with specific examples.

4. By 1500 the Islamic empires had been more powerful than their European counterparts. By 1700 they lagged far behind in socio-economic, political, and military matters. Why? Support your arguments Support your arguments with specific examples.with specific examples.

5. 5. In your opinion, how effectively did one of the following countries - Russia, China or Japan - respond to the increasing European dominance in international trade and commerce in 1500-1700? Support your arguments Support your arguments with specific examples.with specific examples.

History 152 Final Test.History 152 Final Test.Part A.Part A. Locate the following countries and identify their modern capitals (20 points):

Morocco Algeria Sudan Cameroon Angola Nigeria Congo (Zaire) Rwanda Kenya Libya South Africa Ethiopia Madagascar Somalia Mozambique Ghana

Part B. Write an identification essay on the following (30 points):

Suez Canal Crisis Camp David Treaty Khomeini Balfour Declaration Nasser OPEC Mandela Apartheid Rwanda Jacobo Arbenz Peron Che NAFTA Pinochet PLO Darfur

History 152 Final TestHistory 152 Final TestPart C. Write a comprehensive essay on the following (50 points):

1. Define Sun Yat-Sen’s “Three People’s Principles.” In your opinion, which state in South-1. Define Sun Yat-Sen’s “Three People’s Principles.” In your opinion, which state in South-East Asia came closest to implement these principles? East Asia came closest to implement these principles? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, 2. In your opinion, what particular factors have contributed to the prevailing economic problems and fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro transformed their respective countries. Who, in your 3. Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro transformed their respective countries. Who, in your opinion, managed to have built a more viable economic system? opinion, managed to have built a more viable economic system? Support your assertions with specific examples.

4. After World War II but 4. After World War II but a few countries in the Middle East have established relatively stable political systems, economies and currencies, while most continue to stagnate. Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.

5. Despite various efforts, most Latin American countries today are still struggling to build viable economies. In your opinion, what are the main factors that inhibited these efforts? Support your assertions with specific examples.

6. Analyze the following statement: “China and India have clearly demonstrated that large nations find their own developmental patterns, appropriate to each country’s cultural heritage and economic potential.” Support your assertions with specific examples.

7. Discuss and compare various approaches to economic development in two modern states in Africa. In your opinion, which one is more successful? Support your assertions with specific examples.

8. US policies in Latin America has fluctuated from “Dollar Diplomacy” to NAFTA. In your opinion, what was the general effect of these policies on the region? Support your assertions with specific examples.

Test 5.Test 5.

Part A Part A (30 points)(30 points). Locate the following countries, identify their capitals and the major religious denominations (traditionally practiced by the demographic majority): Pakistan India Nepal Mongolia China N. Korea S. KoreaJapan Bhutan Bangladesh Burma Thailand Laos CambodiaVietnam Malaya Indonesia Philippines Taiwan Sri Lanka

Part BPart B. Write an identification essay on the following (70 points)(70 points):

Mexican revolution Versailles Peace Treaty Spanish Civil WarPrague Spring Korean War AppeasementKhrushchev Solidarity movement Chernobyl’Rape of Nanking NEP Prague SpringMikhail Gorbachev Margaret Thatcher Japan’s “economic miracle”Guomindang Living Thoughts of Mao Cultural Revolution

Indira Ghandhi KashmirBerlin Blockade

History 152 Test 4. Write an essay on the following:History 152 Test 4. Write an essay on the following:

1. In your opinion, what were the most important consequences of World War I? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. The two World Wars brought a number of cumulative changes in the governments and societies of their major participants. According to the text, what were the most important of these changes? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. Some of the 20th century’s most noted figures (Yeats, Wiesel, Picasso, Camus, Ghandi, Szymborska) have bitterly criticized the concepts of “civilization” and “progress” in the light of the uses and misuses of technology since 1914. With specific references to two of these personalities, discuss the main points of this critique.

4. In your opinion, who or what should be blamed for the Cold War? What were its most profound effects? Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Test 3. Identify the following:History 152 Test 3. Identify the following:

socialism Karl Marx Social Darwinism “Scramble for Africa” unification of Italy feminism unification of Germany Meiji Restoration Colonialism “Second Industrial

Revolution” Chartist movement Reform Act of 1832 “Sick Man

of Europe” Opium Wars Zionism Emmeline

Pankhurst Crimean War Bismarck Russian-

Japanese War

History 152 Test 1History 152 Test 1Write a comprehensive essay in response to the Write a comprehensive essay in response to the

following:following: 1. By 1500 Europe had slowly begun emerging from the turbulent Dark Ages. 1. By 1500 Europe had slowly begun emerging from the turbulent Dark Ages.

In your opinion, what were the main driving forces of this process? In your opinion, what were the main driving forces of this process? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 2. Your textbook shows that modern capitalism originated between 1500 and 1700. How would you define it? In your opinion, what were the most apparent signs of this development? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces of the European 3. In your opinion, what were the main driving forces of the European geographic explorations? Support your arguments with specific examples.geographic explorations? Support your arguments with specific examples.

4. Compare and analyze the geographic explorations by a Roman-Catholic and a Protestant state between the 16th and 18th centuries. In your opinion, which one was more successful? Why? Support your arguments with specific Support your arguments with specific examples.examples.

5. The socio-economic development of 5. The socio-economic development of the Islamic empires between 1500 and 1700 was quite different from western Europe. In your opinion, what were the main differences? Support your arguments with specific examples.Support your arguments with specific examples.

6. 6. In your opinion, how effectively did one of the following countries - Russia, China or Japan - respond to the increasing European dominance in international trade and commerce? Support your arguments with specific Support your arguments with specific examples.examples.

Test 2Part I. Identify the following items (30 points):Quakers Fernand Braudel Columbian exchangeThomas Hobbes John Locke Bill of Rights 1689Voltaire Jean-Jacques Rousseau MontesquieuRobespierre Napoleon BolivarPart II. Write a comprehensive essay on the following (70 points):1. In your opinion, what were the most crucial political, social, and economic repercussions of slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean basin between 1500 and 1800? How did slavery affect the Western world? Support your assertions with specific examples. 2. In your opinion, what were the most crucial political, social, and economic repercussions of the European settlement in the New World or Polynesia in 1500-1800? Support your assertions with specific examples.3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries most closely reflected the “general will” of the population? Support your assertions with specific examples.4. Which concept (Marxist or Western) of the American revolution seems more convincing to you? Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.5. The French revolution began as a movement to establish a constitutional monarchy on the model of the English revolution 1688, but ultimately became more radical and violent than the American revolution. Why? In your opinion, what factors accounted to such radicalization? Support your assertions with specific examples.6. It has been argued that although the Latin American revolutions resulted in the establishment of independent republics on the model of the United States, in many aspects these were the least “revolutionary” revolutions of the period. Would you agree or disagree with such assessment? Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Map History 152 Map Quiz 1 . Locate the following countries and Identify their modern capitals:

Guatemala Brazil Venezuela

Honduras Salvador Nicaragua Panama Colombia

Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile Argentina Paraguay

Uruguay

History 152 History 152 Quiz 1. What/who is? Trade diasporas Machu Picchu Jenne Zheng He Genghis Khan Marco

Polo Guilds Tamerlane Vasco de Gama Humanism Vasco Nuňez de Balboa Safavids Cultural transfer Martin Luther

History 152 Map History 152 Map Quiz 2. Locate the following countries, indicate their status by 1914, and identify their modern

capitals: Morocco Algeria Sudan Cameroon Angola Mozambique Nigeria Congo/Zaire Rwanda Kenya

History 152 Test 2History 152 Test 2Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:

1. 1. Assess the differences and commonalities in the “social contract” ideas as delineated by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In your opinion, what exactly was the nature of this contract, according to each thinker? Support your assertions with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-192. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19thth centuries most centuries most closely closely reflected the “general will” of the population? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-193. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19thth centuries was centuries was the least successful in achieving “the least successful in achieving “liberty, equality, and fraternity”? Support your assertions with specific examples.

4. 4. How do you understand the concept of “industrial revolution”? What was so “revolutionary” about it? How did it affect the situation of a particular social group? Support your assertions with specific examples.

5. Analyze the connection between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of a new political ideology of the 19th century. Support your assertions with specific examples.

6. Explain the term “nationalism” and examine its different manifestations in the 19th century Europe, America, or Asia. Was it a progressive or regressive force? Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.

History 152 Map qHistory 152 Map quiz 3. Locate the following countries and identify their modern capitals and the dominant

religious denominations: Egypt Turkey Syria Lebanon Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia Iraq Iran Kuwait Afghanistan Yemen Oman UAE Qatar

History 152 History 152 Quiz 2. Write a comprehensive identification essay (see the sample in the

syllabus): Mexican revolution Russian revolution Stalin Versailles Peace Treaty Great Depression NSDAP Munich Conference Spanish Civil War Nazi-Soviet Pact Holocaust Tokyo International Tribunal Berlin Airlift Korean War Khrushchev Prague Spring Solidarity movement

History 152 Map qHistory 152 Map quiz 4. Locate the following countries, identify their modern capitals and the dominant

religious denominations: Pakistan India Nepal Mongolia China N. Korea S. Korea Japan Bhutan Bangladesh Burma Thailand Laos Cambodia Vietnam Malaya Indonesia Philippines Taiwan Sri Lanka

History 152 History 152 Quiz 1. Identify the following: Suez Canal Crisis Camp David

Peace Khomeini Algerian Revolution SolzhenitsynMcCarthyism

Jacobo Arbenz Brezhnev Doctrine Salvador Allende Charles de Gaulle Gorbachev Congo Crisis

NAFTA Pablo Escobar

History 152 Final TestHistory 152 Final TestWrite a comprehensive essay in response to the following:Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following:

1. In your opinion, who/what is to blame for the Cold War? Support your answer with specific examples.

2. In your opinion, what factors in particular have contributed to the prevailing economic problems and fragmented politics in the post-colonial Africa? Support your assertions with specific examples.

3. It has been argued that although Japan lost World War II, it eventually achieved its war-time goal of economic dominance in the post-war East Asia. Do you agree with such statement? Support your assertions with specific examples.

4. After World War II but a few affluent Middle Eastern countries have established relatively stable political systems, economies and currencies, while most continue to stagnate. Why? Support your assertions with specific examples.

5. In 1895 Porfirio Diaz said: “Poor Mexico - so far from God, so close to the United States.” What, in your opinion, did Diaz mean? To what extent his statement can be applied to Latin America today? Support your assertions with specific examples.

6. “China and India have clearly demonstrated that large nations find their own developmental patterns, appropriate to each country’s cultural heritage and economic potential.” Do you agree with such argument? Support your assertions with specific examples.

7. In the 1950-1960s the “welfare state” was an efficient tool to rejuvenate Europe’s economies. From the 1970s, however, the system became less effective. Support your assertions with specific examples.

8. The road to the European Union was long and arduous, but it was worth it. Support your assertions with specific examples.