The Key Terms will be part of the midterm and final exams in the course. You should study these terms using your textbook, but you are also encouraged to use any other sources, such as Wikipedia. A good answer to a test identification of a key term should include answers to these basic questions: who, what, where, when and why important. It is especially important to focus on why the key term is important. Check out some examples.
- History
- Civilization
Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Oliver Cromwell
- Louis XIV
- Old Regime (Ancien Régime)
- Glorious Revolution
Unit 3 Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- Isaac Newton
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Baron de Montesquieu
- Voltaire
- Third Estate
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Committee of Public Safety
- Napoleone di Buonaparte (Napoleon)
- James Watt
- Urbanization
- Industrial Revolution
- Machine
- 1812 Russian campaign
- Decembrists
- Realpolitik
- Charles Darwin
- Otto von Bismarck
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Romanticism
- French Revolution of 1848
- Opium Wars
- Scramble for Africa
- Spanish-American War
- Imperialism
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Entente Cordiale
- Trench Warfare
- Lenin
- Stalin
- Nicholas II
- Bolsheviks
World War II
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Operation Barbarossa
- Final Solution
- Iron Curtain
- Yalta Conference
- Vietnam War
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Apartheid
- United Nations
- Nelson Mandela
- Rwanda
- Hezbollah
- Globalization
Unit 16 Twenty-First Century World
- Technological Revolution
- Human Rights