exam answer two of the following four questions 1

Modern World History: Exam

Spring 2018

Short Essay Responses: Please answer two of the following four questions with details and

examples taken from the readings, online discussions (if they are relevant), and information

from the powerpoints. Also, please use at least one key term for each question you answer

from the word bank below.

Essay Questions:

A) Analyze the relationship between nationalism, imperialism, and industrialization in the

late-nineteenth-century world. How did each factor influence the other, and why?

B) What motivated the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War? Analyze

the political, social, cultural, and economic impacts the Cold War on populations at the

time.

C) Describe some of the major causes and consequences of WWI?

D) Analyze the factors that encouraged the rise of authoritarian political systems during the

1920â€™s and 1930â€™s and compare the governments that emerged in Italy, Germany, Japan,

and the USSR.

Word Bank (Be sure to use at least one term for each answer)

Imperialism, Marxism, Modernism, The Great War, Nationalism, Fascism, Nazism,

Communism,