WORLD HISTORY



British Imperialism in India

1. What is the definition of Imperialism?

2. What is the British East India Company?

3. What are sepoys?

4. What were the positive and negative effects of British imperialism in India?

5. What was the Sepoy Mutiny?

6. What religions existed in India before the British took control? What did Indians fear the British were trying to make them do?

7. How was racism a part of the British imperialism in India?

8. What is nationalism?

9. How did nationalism make Indians want to seek independence?

European imperialism in Africa

1. What is Social Darwinism? How does a stronger country use this as a reason for imperialism?

2. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

3. What did the European countries agree to at the Berlin Conference (how could a country obtain land in Africa)?

4. What were positive and negative effects of imperialism in Africa?

Consequences of Imperialism

1. How did the unrest in the Balkans help increase tensions between European countries?

2. Who is Gavrilo Princip? Who is Archduke Ferninand? How did these two figures help to start World War I?

3. Who is Gandhi? What was his main strategy for protesting British rule? Why did he want to use this strategy?

4. What was the Salt March? What was its purpose?

World War I

1. What are the four MAIN causes of WWI (Know what they are and be able to describe what each one is and why it would lead to the start of the war)?

2. Who were the Allied Powers? Who were the Central Powers?

3. What was the Schlieffen Plan?

4. What is trench warfare?

6. Where was the Western Front? What was the eastern front?

7. What effect did the sinking of the Lusitania have on the American public?

8. What was the Zimmerman Telegram (Note)? How did it help lead to the United States entering the War?

8. What is the Treaty of Versailles (what did it want to do to Germany)?

Russian Revolution

1. What was the goal of the February Revolution? What kind of government did they set up?

2. What was the goal of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution?

3. What two sides fought a civil war in Russia? Which side won? What kind of government did they set up?

4. Who is Vladimir Lenin?

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