Survey World History - Study Guide for Final Exam | HIST 1112, Study notes of World History

Download Survey World History - Study Guide for Final Exam | HIST 1112 and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! History 1112 Study Guide for Final Exam The final exam will cover Chapters 27 and 29-35 in the textbook; the sources assigned to you from your reader, World Civilizations; Pang Mei Natasha Chang’s Bound Feet and Western Dress; the video on the “Scramble for Africa,“ This Magnificant African Cake; the video excerpt shown in class on the battle of Verdun in WWI; the video Red Flag covering Soviet history from the Revolutions of 1917 to 1939. It will consist of map questions, term identification, a take-home essay on your assigned documentary and visual sources, and one in-class essay. I. Map Questions: You will be asked to identify specific geographical locations labeled on a blank map of the world, of Africa, and of Europe. I will give you descriptions of the locations labeled on the maps and you will match the letter on the map to the descriptions given. I will select from the list that is posted on the history department website. To access the list, which is a link on the syllabus, go to the history department website, click on faculty and staff, then scroll down and click on my name and picture, then click on syllabi, then click on History 1112, Fall 2007; then go to the readings list; the link for the term and geographic location list for Chapters 27-35 can be found just before the readings list. II. Term Identification: The terms will be chosen from the list that is posted on the history department website, as well as terms that have been written on the board in class. To access the list, which is a link on the syllabus, go to the history department website, click on faculty and staff, then scroll down and click on my name and picture, then click on syllabi, then click on History 1112, Fall 2007; then go to the readings list; the link for the term and geographic location list for Chapters 27-35 can be found just before the readings list. Be able to define the term, give an approximate date, and explain the significance of the term (its historical impact, what this event or concept reveals to us about historical development). Your answers to all questions should be drawn from the textbook, your World Civilizations reader, and class notes. GIVE APPROXIMATE DATES FOR THE TERMS. TURN OVER FOR ESSAY QUESTIONS III. Essay Questions: There will be two parts. You will do a take-home essay (you will receive a separate handout) for which you may use your documents reader and your textbook (though you must cite information that you use from these sources). On the day of the exam, you will do an in-class essay. The take-home essay must be typed. TAKE-HOME ESSAY: DUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FINAL EXAM. The minimum length for each is three pages. Each essay should present a concrete thesis statement which clearly establishes your main argument. Substantiate your points with specific examples and facts. Organize your essays with an introduction, body, and conclusion. In the body you develop your argument and provide concrete facts and examples to substantiate and illustrate it. Where appropriate, you should cite specific evidence from the textbook, from your supplemental readings, from class notes and videos, and from the assigned documents. IT IS IMPORTANT TO GIVE CONCRETE FACTS AND EXAMPLES TO BACK UP YOUR MAIN POINTS. WHERE APPROPRIATE, MAKE REFERENCE TO SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS (from your textbook and from the World Civilizations reader). The more references you have to specific examples and evidence, the more points you will receive. Of the following questions, three will appear on the exam and you will choose one of them. Try to work out potential answers to all of them, for those not chosen to appear as essays can help you prepare for the other sections of the exam. 1. Compare and contrast the struggle for national identity, modernization, and independence from the West in China, Japan, and Africa between 1900 and 1970. How do the two world wars involve and affect each of these regions? How do each struggle with trying to reconcile modernity and tradition? Give specific examples. 2. Compare/contrast the meaning of nationalism, communism, and fascism. How have each of these belief systems affected world history in the 19th and 20th centuries? Give concrete examples. What are the commonalities and differences among these concepts, both in theory and in practice? Are these concepts opposed to each other in theory or in practice? 3. Compare and contrast World War I and World War II in terms of the origins, the nature and size of the conflict, strategies and technologies of war, the impact on civilians, families and women, and consequences. What argument can be made for the assertion that WWII marked a more fundamental turning point, a break from the