Part 1: Short Answer
Answer each question in this section. Do not skip any of the questions; each of the responses you provide will help you respond to the essay that comes in Part 2.
1. How did the Meiji Restoration modernize Japan?
2. What is the concept of manifest destiny?
3. What event propelled African independence movements?
4. What is apartheid?
5. Why did the Allies win World War II?
6. What explains the dominant role that the Israeli/Palestinian issue has played in Middle Eastern politics since 1945?
7. What were the causes of the Cold War?
9. Who were the Asian economic tigers?
9. Who were the Asian economic tigers?
10. What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
Part 2: Essay
For this section, write a minimum of two complete paragraphs to earn the 50 points available. The information you gained from answering the short answers in Part A should be helpful to you in this essay. In addition, note the word bank of terms below. You'll receive 10 points for your answer to the overall questions and 5 points each for including the significance of the following terms in your essay:
1. Treaty of Versailles
2. Re-drawing the map of Europe and the Middle East
3. Reparations payments
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Weimar Republic
6. Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks
7. Appeasement
8. Totalitarianism.