12.1.3 Final Exam: Semester Exam
World History
Points Possible:50
Exam
Name: misha benhamou
Date:
Part I: Short Answer Questions (30 points)
1. How did the geographical features of the Suez Canal contribute to international conflict
during the Cold War? Support your answer with specific details about the 1956 Suez Crisis. (5
points)
2. In your opinion, what was the most important factor motivating the European imperialism that
began around 1750? Describe the kinds of imperialistic actions this factor was responsible for
and support your argument with historical evidence. (5 points)
3. Read the following excerpt from a book written by John Locke. Briefly summarize the
passage and explain the impact these ideas had on countries around the world during the 18th
and 19th centuries. Give specific examples of these ideas’ impact in two different parts of the
world. (5 points)
For no government can have a right to obedience from a
people who have not freely consented to it; which they
can never be supposed to do, till either they are put in a
full state of liberty to chuse their government and
governors, or at least till they have such standing laws, to
which they have by themselves or their representatives
given their free consent, and also till they are allowed their
due properly, which is so to be proprietors of what they
have, that no body can take away any part of it without
their own consent, without which men under any
government are not in the state of freemen, but are direct
slaves under the force of war.

ohn Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 16901
4. Read the following two points from President Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech given in 1918.
What was the overall purpose of the Fourteen Points, and why did he include the type of
proposals listed in the passage? What impact did these ideas have on the rest of the world? (5
points)
X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among
the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured,
should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous
development.
XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be
evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the
several Balkan states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically established lines of
allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of
the political and economic independence and territorial
integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered
into.
oodrow Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,” 19182
5. Briefly describe the political and economic situation in the United States after World War I.
Then explain how political and economic factors during this period contributed to the Great
Depression. (5 points)
6. Describe one U.S. policy and one Soviet policy that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union
and European communism in the early 1990s. What type of impact did the two policies have?
Why? (5 points)
Part II: Application and Critical Thinking (20 points)
7. Evaluate this statement made by a hypothetical historian: “The 20th century represented a
consistent trend toward improving the political, social, and economic fortunes for all people of
the world.” Write a well-developed essay that supports or opposes this statement. Use at least
three issues or events discussed in the course to support your argument.

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