Final Review 2008

Unit 03 Terms:

• Second Triumvirate, Princeps, Nero, Year of Four Emperors
• Pax Romana, co-option, Marcus Aurelius, salus generis humani
• Praetorian Guard, Septimius Severus, Dominate, Cult Of Personality
• Edict of Milan, Arianism, Constantinople, Justinian
• Romaioi, Byzantine Empire, Orthodoxy, Edward Gibbon

Unit 04 Terms:

• Kievan Rus, St. Vladimir the Great, Golden Horde, Great Novgorod
• Third Rome, Ivan IV Grozny "The Terrible", zemsky sobor, Yermak The Cossack
  
• Old Believers, Peter The Great, Streltsy, St Petersburg
• Catherine II "The Great," Alexander I, Decembrist Revolt, "Official Nationality"
• Peoples Will,  Nicholas II and Alexandra, Russo- Japanese War, February Revolution

Unit 05 Terms:

• Petrograd Soviet, Provisional Government, Bolsheviks, Lenin
• Communist Party, Declaration of Rights, White Russian Movement, Comintern
• Socialism in One Country,  Great Purges, GULag, Operation Barbarossa
• Great Patriotic War, Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine,  Cuban Missile Crisis
• homo Sovieticus, Leonid Brezhnev, Afghan War, glasnost

Unit 06 Terms:

• States Rights, Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal
• Fourteen Points, Versailles Treaty, League of Nations, United Nations
• Ho Chi Minh, Marshall Plan, Korean War,  Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
• Tonkin Gulf Incident, Saddam Hussein, Persian Gulf War, Osama bin Laden

Essay Questions - write an essay answering ONE of the following:

• What common factors led to the decline and fall of the Roman/Byzantine, and Russian empires? What factors were unique to the Roman/Byzantine Empire, and which were unique to the Russian Empire?
• Discuss the similarities and differences between the US experience in Vietnam and the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. What are the major historical lessons to be learned?
• This semester, we have seen several nations achieve world power status only to fall. Based on the material presented in this class, do you believe the United States is destined to fall? Explain.