History 102 Study Guide for Final Examination Please remember to bring at least one BLUE BOOK!
I. ESSENTIAL TERMS (30 points; three points per term): These are the terms (people, concepts, events, ideas) that it is essential to know for the final examination. Not all of them will be on the examination, but knowing these terms and especially their historical significance (two points each) in the context of our course will help you greatly in the examination overall (short answer, multiple-choice and essay questions). As much as possible, they are listed in the order in which they were discussed in our classes. You will probably have to write on 10 out of 20 of these terms.
Diderot Congress of Vienna Urbanization factory system Frankfurt Assembly Skill Dynasty F. Nightingale Franco-Prussian War New Imperialism H. M. Stanley Suffrage Movement Gender Emmeline Pankhurst Short memory Franz Ferdinand Serbia Blank check Entente Cordial	Schlieffen Plan Provisional Government Bolsheviks "All Power to the Soviets" Stab in the Back Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson G. Clemenceau Versailles Treaty Weimar Republic War guilt clause Black Tuesday Mussolini Stalin Collectivization Five-Year Plan Fascism Hitler Nazism	Nonaggression Pact Pearl Harbor Stalingrad Normandy W. Churchill Holocaust Yalta Sovietization Tito Berlin AirLift Warsaw Pact Cuban Missile Crisis Prague Spring Khrushchev The Thaw V. Havel Gorbachev Solidarity
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (30 points; 15 questions worth two points each): In this section there will be 15 multiple-choice questions on the textbook and lectures. Each question will have one answer and be worth one point.
III. MAP QUESTION (10 points; five questions worth two points each): In this section, you will be asked to identify important HISTORICAL places on a blank map of Europe. Possible locations include the location of each of the larger states of Europe and their capital cities, as well as a few other places, whose location you will know if you have studied the Essential Terms listed above. Click here to see and print the blank map of Europe that will be on the Final Examination! Click here to see a map to help you fill in the blank map!

IV. ESSAY QUESTIONS (30 points):

For the essay question, you will have a choice of ONE out of TWO. It is crucial that you first of all state the question, then your thesis statement (your answer to the question). Then, make an argument for your thesis, supporting your argument with specific examples, events, dates and facts; and finally conclude. It is not sufficient to describe the events. You must make an argument in response to the question. Below are sample questions that may or may not appear on the exam. In drawing up outlines to answer these questions, be as specific as possible. Use specific examples to support each of your statements.

1. Some historians argue that the alliance system was the main cause of the outbreak of the Great War. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer paying attention to all the causes usually mentioned as leading to the outbreak and explaining why or why not the alliance system was most important.
2. "The Second World War was essentially a continuation of the First." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your reasons and support your argument with reference to the events, processes and peoples of the interwar period.
3. "While we may hate Stalin for all his horrible deeds, without Stalin it is very difficult to see how Hitler would have lost the Second World War." Agree or disagree with this statement, employing examples from the lectures and readings, and especially discussing the role that the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial power played in the outcome of WWII. Please be specific.
4. What factors account for the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991? Amongst these factors, which do you think was decisive? Explain your answer, making specific reference to examples - events, peoples, processes - from the readings and lectures.

Probable Rubric for Final Examination
Section	Grade	Totals
I. Essential Terms		30
II. Multiple-Choice		30
III. Map		10
IV. Essay		30
TOTAL		100
Overall Exam Grade
Overall Course Grade

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