Morocco Algeria Sudan Cameroon Angola Nigeria Congo (Zaire) Rwanda

1. History 152 Final Test.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 • JacoboArbenz Peron Che • NAFTA Pinochet PLO • Darfur

2. History 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-East Asia came closest to implement these principles? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 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 opinion, managed to have built a more viable economic system? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 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.

3. Test 5.Part A (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 LankaPart B. Write an identification essay on the following (70 points): Mexican revolution Versailles Peace Treaty Spanish Civil War Prague 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 Kashmir Berlin Blockade

4. History 152 Test 4. Write an essay on the following: • In your opinion, what were the most important consequences of World War I? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 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. • 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. • 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.

5. 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 ZionismEmmeline Pankhurst • Crimean War Bismarck Russian-Japanese War

6. History 152 Test 1Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following: • 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? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 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 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 examples. • 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. • 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 examples.

7. Test 2 Part I. Identify the following items (30 points): Quakers Fernand Braudel Columbian exchange Thomas Hobbes John Locke Bill of Rights 1689 Voltaire Jean-Jacques Rousseau Montesquieu Robespierre Napoleon Bolivar Part 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.

8. History 152 Map Quiz 1 . Locate the following countries and Identify their modern capitals: • Guatemala Brazil Venezuela • HondurasSalvadorNicaragua • Panama Colombia Ecuador • Peru Bolivia Chile • Argentina Paraguay Uruguay

9. History 152 Quiz 1. What/who is? • Trade diasporas Machu Picchu • JenneZheng He • Genghis Khan Marco Polo • Guilds Tamerlane • Vasco de Gama Humanism • Vasco Nuňez de Balboa Safavids • Cultural transfer Martin Luther

10. 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

11. History 152 Test 2Write a comprehensive essay in response to the following: • 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 17-19th centuries most closely reflected the “general will” of the population? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 3. In your opinion, which Atlantic revolution of the 17-19th centuries was the least successful in achieving “liberty, equality, and fraternity”? Support your assertions with specific examples. • 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.

12. History 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

13. 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

14. History 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

15. History 152 Quiz 1. Identify the following: • Suez Canal Crisis Camp David Peace Khomeini Algerian Revolution Solzhenitsyn McCarthyism • JacoboArbenz Brezhnev Doctrine Salvador Allende Charles de Gaulle Gorbachev Congo Crisis • NAFTA Pablo Escobar

16. History 152 Final TestWrite 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.