SOL TEST INFO YOU MUST

KNOW!!!

Who was the inventor of the Printing Press?

Johannes Gutenberg

Why was the printing press so

important?

It spread ideas of Reformation and

Renaissance

What event started the French

Revolution?

The Storming of Bastille (prison)

World Religion locations c. 1500

--Judaism

--Christianity

--Islam

--Buddhism

--Hinduism

--Judaism—Middle East and Europe

--Christianity—Middle East and Europe

--Islam—parts of Asia, Africa, Southern Europe

--Buddhism—East/Southeast Asia

--Hinduism—India

What was the original location of the Ottoman

Empire?

Asia Minor

How many continents was the Ottoman Empire

on? List them.

Three: Asia, Europe (southeast—Balkans),

Africa (north in Sahara)

AfricaAsia

Europe

What is monotheism? List

religions that believe in it:

Belief in one God:

Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Explain mercantilism:

Colonies benefit mother Colonies benefit mother countrycountry (give raw materials to

mother)

Helps mother be “self-“self-sufficient”sufficient”

List four things Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is

known for:

1.Secret police (KGB)

2.Five Year Plans (industrialization)

3. Collectivization

4. Great Purge (genocide)

What did the Franco-Prussian War (1870) lead to?

Creation of the German state (Germany)

Each color represents a small German state

that joins a united Germany

Prussia was the largest German state

Who was Otto von Bismarck?

Nationalist Prussian leader—unified Germany through three wars (Franco-Prussian War)

Who united Italy?

Count Cavour—North

Guiseppe Garibaldi—joins South to North

Papal States last to join

What was the League of Nations?

Why did it fail?

--cooperative Organization

--prevent future wars

--U.S. doesn’t join—no military

What were the two sides fighting in the Chinese Civil War?

--Mao Tse-Tung (communist)

--Chiang Kai-Shek (nationalist)

What was the outcome of the Chinese Civil

War?

Mao wins

Shek flees to Taiwan

Name the two countries created by Chinese Civil War:

Communist China (Mao)

Nationalist China (Taiwan—Shek)

Communist China

Taiwan—Nationalist China

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Soviets put nukes in Cuba—almost causes World War III

Containment:

Theory of deterrence:

U.S. policy— stop spread of communism

Idea—having nukes stops others from nuking you.