Test Breakdown PART I - 8%–10% is on Ancient Near East; 15%–17%
is on Greece and Hellenistic Culture, 15%–17% is on
Rome, 23%–27% is on Middle Ages, 13%–17% is on the
Renaissance and Protestant Reformation, 10%–15% is on
Early Modern Europe, 1560-1648
Test Breakdown
PART II -
7%–9% is on
Absolutism and limited monarch, 4%–6% is on
Competition for empire and economic expansion, 5%–7% is
on
Scientific Revolution and view on world, 7%–9% is on
Enlightenment,10%–13% is on French Revolution and
Napoleon, 7%–9% is on the Industrial Revolution, 6%–8%
is on early to mid 1800s and revolution,
Political and cultural developments, 1815–1848, 8%–10%
is on nationalism and unification in the 19th century,
7%–9% on imperialism and economy c1850-1914, 10%–12% is
on WWI and Russian Revolution, 7%–9% is on
Europe between the World Wars, 8%-10% is on WWII to the
present.
M
- Monarchy's abuses, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (Let Them Eat
Cake)
E
- Enlightenment
A
- American Revolution
T
- Taxes on the 3rd Estate
(98% of the people)
Slogan
= LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY -- as found in the Declaration of the
Rights of Man.
Chronology - 1789 - Storming of Bastille --> National
Assembly Takes Over --> c1794, King and Queen Executed --> Jacobins
Rule --> Reign of Terror --> 1796 Directory appoints Napoleon as
Commander in Chief --> 1799 - Coup d etat of Napoleon
Philosophy of
Enlightenment Thinkers:
John Locke wrote Two
Treatises on Government - life, liberty, property.
Voltaire = known for free
speech rights.
John Jacques Rousseau - do
not obey an unjust law, "man is born free and everywhere he is in
chains" Chains are unjust laws.
Baron de Montesquieu =
Spirit of the Laws = Separation of Powers with three equal branches of
government.
Enlightenment
and French Revolution Videos
Russian Revolution
Causes
=
Weakness of the Czar =
continued WWI, Bloody Sunday, poorly equipped military, lack of bread.
Increased popularity of
socialism after rapid industrialization led to exploited workers and
bad conditions.
Slogan
= Peace, Land, Bread.
Chronology - 1917 = Czar --> Provisional Government (takes
power in March) --> Bolshevik Revolution (Lenin takes over in
November.
Philosophy of
the Russian Revolution
Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels - The Communist Manifesto -- labor raises up to rule in
a classless society where the means of production are shared.
RIDICULOUS
MNEMONIC DEVICES I GAVE YOU THIS YEAR.
Herchel
Tried
Varsity
Swimming
And
Jumped
in My
Pool
Haiti
Touissaint;
Venezuela
Simon
Bolivar, Argentina
Jose San Martin,
Mexico
Padre
San Morelos
TM ME = TRUMAN MILITARY
AID, MARSHALL PLAN ECONOMIC AID
GO PE = Glasnost is the
Opening up of the USSR. Perestroika is economic restructuring with
some capitalism.
QSJM - Quiet Sam Just
Moved= Qin, Sun Yixian, Jiang Jieshi, Mao
Chunky
Peanut
Butter
= Czar --> Provisional Government --> Bolsheviks
CAPHY FELL ... Treaty of
Versailles countries ... Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Hungary,
Yugoslavia (out of Central Powers) ... Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania (out of Russia)
MEAT or TEAM, if you are
vegetarian -- see above regarding French Rev.
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