"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past."

- Big Brother, as quoted by Winston Smith, Book One, Chapter III of 1984

Cat/6 Review - Study Sheet Assignment     (100 points  approximately)  

Purpose: There are several purposes for this project.  (1) If students do well (over 50%) they can continue on to the Honors programme in US History without having to challenge the issue.  (2) If my students do well, it looks like I actually taught them this material, which, certainly as regards the later material, I have not yet... though I will after the test.  (3) If the school improves its scores it is removed from the state and federal Nastiness List in which the government threatens to take over, mandate day-by-day syllabi of the state's choosing, and actually ruin the quality of education of a course like this one.  (4) It is important to learn that the entire thrust, the wholly conceived purpose, the initial God-made reason for even creating human history in the first place was to produce the UNITED STATES of AMERICA!  And these standards will help us learn this more clearly.  (5) We love Big Brother and will do just as he wishes. (Read Orwell's 1984 if you don't get it.) and ...oh yeah... (6) it will actually be a darned good review sheet for part of the final exam as well.

Process: For each of these terms derived from the material to be tested on the CAT6 (10.1 - 10.9) prepare a definition for your study sheet.  This assignment must be hand-written.  It is the only assignment all year that I require to be written by hand.  Blue or black ink only, please.  
 
Dates:  (Identify the key events which take place in world history for each given year) 10 points
1. 1648 -  
2. 1776 -  
3. 1789 (or 1792) -  
4. 1812 -  
5. 1848 -  
6. 1914 -  
7. 1918 -
8. 1939 (or 1941) -
9. 1945 -
10. 1989 -

People - identify the main significance of each and his (except Stein) nationality (30 points)  
A. John Locke  
B. Charles-Louis Montesquieu  
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau  
D. Simon Bolivar  
E. Thomas Jefferson  
F. James Madison  
G. Napoleon Bonaparte  
H. James Watt   
I.  Eli Whitney  
J.  Henry Bessemer  
K. Louis Pasteur  
L. Thomas Edison  
M. William Blake  
N. William Wordsworth  
O. Charles Dickens  
P. Sun Yat-sen  
Q. Woodrow Wilson  
R. Pablo Picasso  
S. Gertrude Stein  
T. Ernest Hemingway  
U. Vladimir Lenin  
V. Joseph Stalin  
W. Winston Churchill
X. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Y. Emperor Hirohito
Z. Benito Mussolini
AA. Douglas MacArthur
BB. Dwight Eisenhower
CC. Mao Tse-Tsung
DD. Lech Walesa
 
 
Documents - identify the main idea behind each (10 points)  
1. Plato's Republic  
2. Aristotle's Politics  
3. U.S. Constitution  
4. Magna Carta  
5. English Bill of Rights  
6. American Declaration of Independence  
7. French Declaration of the Rights of Man  
8. U.S. Bill of Rights  
9. Treaty of Versailles  
10. Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points  
 
 
Events - know what, when, where, who, and why (25 points)  
A. The Glorious Revolution of England  
B. The American Revolution  
C. The French Revolution  
D. The Napoleonic Empire  
E. the Congress of Vienna  
F. The Concert of Europe  
G. The Revolutions of 1848  
H. The Industrial Revolution  
I.  The Great War  
J.  The Russian Revolution  
K. The Armenian Massacre  
L. The Terror Famine in the Ukraine  
M. Truman Doctrine
N. Marshall Plan
O. Cold War
P. Chinese Civil War
Q. Great Leap Forward
R. Cultural Revolution (in China)
S. Tianamen Square Uprising
T. Warsaw Pact
U. Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939
V. Yalta Pact
W. SEATO
X. NATO
Y. Organization of American States
 
 
Miscellaneous (Ideas, etc. ) - 25 points
1. Judeo-Christian view of law vs. Greco-Roman view of law  
2.  Judeo-Christian view of reason and faith vs. Greco-Roman view of reason and faith  
3. Nationalism - pros and cons in the 19th century  
4. Population shifts in the 19th century - where and why?  
5. Decline of the slave trade - why?  
 
6. - 10. Define each of the following in such a way that it is clear that it is different from the others  
    6. Capitalism  
    7. Utopianism  
    8. Social Democracy  
    9. Socialism  
    10. Communism  
 
11. - 12. Classicism vs. Romanticism - what were the main ideas and differences?  
 
13. Social Darwinism - what is it? who wrote about it? who believed in it?  
14. Imperialism - what were the motivations? what were the responses? what nations controlled which regions?  
15. Where were the biggest battles and sites of WW I?  
16. Why did the U.S. reject membership in the League of Nations?  How did that affect the League of Nations?  
17. Totalitarianism - define it and give three examples of where it has been practiced  
18. What was "The Lost Generation" and why were they significant?  
19. What was the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust?
20. How did Germany and Japan recover from WWII?
21. What caused the Korean War?  How did it end?
22. What caused the Viet Nam War?  How did it end?
23. How was the nation of Israel created?  What problems did it face?
24. Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
25. How did the United Nations get started and what has it accomplished?