HIS 102
Key Terms to remember while reading the textbook
and studying a unit's material
 
 

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.

Unit 1 Introduction
  • History
  • Civilization
Unit 2 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
Unit 4 French Revolution
  • Third Estate
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • Committee of Public Safety
  • Napoleone di Buonaparte (Napoleon)
Unit 5 Industrial Revolution
  • James Watt
  • Urbanization
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Machine
Unit 6 Russia in Revolt?
  • 1812 Russian campaign
  • Decembrists
Unit 7 Nationalism
  • Realpolitik
  • Charles Darwin
  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Unit 8 Socialism
  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Romanticism
  • French Revolution of 1848
Unit 9 Imperialism
  • Opium Wars
  • Scramble for Africa
  • Spanish-American War
  • Imperialism
Unit 10 The Great War
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • Entente Cordiale
  • Trench Warfare
Unit 11 Russian Revolution
  • Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Nicholas II
  • Bolsheviks
Unit 12 World War II
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • Final Solution
Unit 13 Cold War
  • Iron Curtain
  • Yalta Conference
  • Vietnam War
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
Unit 14 Decolonization
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Apartheid
  • United Nations
Unit 15 Final Exam
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Rwanda
  • Hezbollah
  • Globalization
Unit 16 Twenty-First Century World
  • Technological Revolution
  • Human Rights

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