Download Identification, Essay Questions - World History since 1500-Honors | HIS 1307 and more Exams World History in PDF only on Docsity! History 1307 (TR) Mr. Longfellow 2nd Test (j, T&E4) Spring 2010 Part I: Identification – 6.5 points each Choose five (5) of the names, terms, or quotations below and explain a) who or what each one is or means, and b) one reason he, she or it is significant. Identify source and significance for quotations. 1. Squadristi 2. Class struggle 3. Vanguard party 4. Ostune 5. Cecil Rhodes 6. Fourteen Points 7. “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” 8. Indentured laborers 9. “White Man’s Burden” 10. Rape of Nanjing 11. Five-Year Plans 12. Spanish flu 13. Meiji 14. Marcus Gravey 15. Alsace and Lorraine 16. League of Nations Part II: Essay Questions - 33 points each Choose two (2) of the following questions. THINK before you start to write, and support your answers with specific examples, names, and terms, where appropriate. 1. World War I is often described as a “turning point” in world history. Describe three ways in which the war merits this label. Be sure to analyze what changed or “turned” and how in each case. 2. Your textbook terms the first half of the 20th century an “Age of Anxiety.” 19th century confidence in a) politics b) science and c) European culture was seriously challenged or undermined. Discuss how, in each case 3. What was “new” about European imperial expansion after 1870? Discuss three “new” characteristics, and illustrate each one with examples from Burmese Days. 4. Fascist Italy and Stalin’s Soviet Union were enemies, on opposite sides during World War II. Yet both states had some traits in common. Discuss two similarities of and two differences between these totalitarian states. 5. Compare and contrast how the authors of The Wild Geese and Burmese Days portray the status of women in these two Asian countries. 6. Were the causes of the two World Wars basically similar, or fundamentally different? Explain your answer.
