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?
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.