7th Grade
What are a person's natural rights?
What are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Name 10 African nations.
Up to teacher's discretion
Name the treaty that ended the war and one provision of the treaty.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
EX: War Guilt Clause; League of Nations; 14 Point Plan
Name the causes of the Great Depression in the United States.
What were defaulting on loans, placing stocks on credit that individuals could not repay, as well as hyperinflation?
Name the three proxy wars and explain the policy the US took while aiding.
Was it the domino theory and the wars were Vietnam, Korea, and the Soviet War in Afghanistan?
What is the white man's burden?
Was it the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the natives of their colonies?
Name 5 countries in Asia.
*up to teacher's discretion*
Name the nations in the Triple Entente.
What was Great Britain, France, and Russia?
What was the group that led the revolution to end the Ottoman Empire?
Was it the Young Turks led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?
Was it the containment policy where the US sought to contain the spread of Communism?
What was the only nation to remain free during the Scramble for Africa, as well as 5 European powers involved?
What Ethiopia the only free nation?
Were they Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Italy?
What was Lin Zexu's purpose during the Opium War?
Was it to rid the empire of Opium and the foreign powers that tainted China?
Name a reason why the US dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Was it that the US wanted to end the war quickly and show its military might to the Soviet Union?
Explain inflation and how it affected Germany.
*up to teacher's discretion*
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis and what idea did the event illustrate?
Was it MAD and that the USSR placed missiles in Cuba aimed at the US to retaliate for having missiles in Turkey; moreover was it that it was the closest they got into entering a war with one another but ended before it got too extreme?
What were the Three Estates?
Was it the Clergy, the Nobility, and the rest of society?
Name the policy Japan took during the 1930s prior to WWII.
Was it expansionism?
Name the four causes of World War I and the causes of World War II.
What were Alliances, Militarism, Nationalism, and Imperialism for WWI?
Was it Chamberlin's appeasement to Hitler leading to Hitler expanding throughout Europe before he invaded Poland, triggering WWII?
What was the Holodomor Genocide and its purpose?
Was it a genocide by famine that lasted from 1932 to 1933 in Ukraine, where approximately, 10 million Ukrainians were the victims of an artificial famine during the Stalinist regime? Was the purpose to systematically destroy the Ukrainian people's aspirations for a free and independent Ukraine?
Name the two alliance systems at the time and what was the main reason why any nation joined these two?
Were they NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and was it for collective security?
What was the main cause of the Battle of Adwa?
Was it a disagreement over a treaty between Ethiopia and Italy?
How are the Boxer Rebellion and the Mau Mau Uprising similar?
Was it the fight between traditionalists and reformists in order to better society?
How was World War II a turning point in world history?
Was it that it set the stage for the US and USSR to become the two world powers, triggering the Cold War to commence as they fought over ideological and economic dominance over one another?
State the purpose of Kemalism.
Was it to guide the transition between the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, and transform the nation into a secular, unitarian republic?
How were Deng and Gorbechav similar as leaders?
Was it that they both sought to incorporate capitalism within their communist society, in order to modernize and compete with other Western nations economically?