Study Guide for Final Exam

World History after 1750

Key Details
 Format: analytical multiple choice (open book)
 When: Thursday, 25 June 2020
 Where: online on the Blackboard
 Duration: 100 minutes
 Number of questions: 35 items
Focus 1: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• Causes of Industrial Revolution
• Process in Industrial Revolution: innovations in several different
areas of social life
• Positive and negative consequences of Industrial Revolution
• Global impact of Industrial Revolution
• Why did Industrial Revolution first happen in Britain? Why not,
for example, in China?
 Focus 1: INDUSTRIALIZATION
• THREE MAJOR RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALIZATION:

 Capitalism (such as Adam Smith)

 Socialism (proposed by Karl Marx)
 Social reform
Focus 2: Imperialism to Serve Industrial
Expansion
• Whatare “tools of empire”? What are their role in
empire-building done by powerful industrial societies?
• Why did industrial societies build their global empires?
• Threestages in imperialism: 1) penetration, 2) conquest,
3) consolidation
• Why did nationalism emerge in colonized countries that
suffered under imperialism?
Focus 3: Nationalism in 19th Century Japan
• Meiji Restoration: causes, goals, methods, results
• Expansion of Japan: causes, goals, methods,
results
• Ito Hirobumi’s recipe for Japanese modernity
• Fukuzawa Yukichi’s formula for Japan’s
modernity
Focus 4: The Great Depression
• The “Kondratieff Wave”
• Brief post-war economic boom in the mid-1920s
• Capitalism’s Response to Postwar Economic
Crisis
• TheGreat Depression in 1930: causes,
symptoms, consequences, and meaning (for
understanding world history)