Questionnaire

HIST 152 - KNOWLEDGE SURVEY (SMITH) PRE-TEST SPRING '06

This is a Knowledge Survey rather than a "test." There are no right or wrong answers. While you will not be graded on this survey, please be very candid in your responses!

By completing this survey, both at the beginning and at the end of the semester, your instructor will be able to gauge your initial level of knowledge and then measure the amount of knowledge you gain during the semester. This information will help your instructor modify and improve the course.

Read each statement carefully and then choose a response based on the following instructions:

Mark A as your response to the item if you are not confident in your skills in the area and do not feel you can adequately demonstrate these skills on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark B as your response to the item if you feel somewhat confident that you are reasonably skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a reasonable level on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark C as your response to the item if you feel very confident that you are highly skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a high level on a test/essay/research paper.

CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL TERMS/CONCEPTS -

INDICATE YOUR ABILITY TO DEFINE, DESCRIBE, CITE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Your skill level in area:

	A: Low	B: Modest	C: High
European Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
reconquista
Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Magellan Expedition
conquistadors
Columbian Exhange
Native American Holocaust
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Mughal Empire
Swahili States
Zheng He
Ming Empire
daimyo
Tokugawa Shogunate
Sakoku - closed country policy
absolutism
Russian Tzar
Glorious Revolution
constitutionalism
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
salutary neglect
Declaration of Independence
American Bill of Rights
Estates General
National Assembly
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Jacobins
Napoleon Bonaparte
Congress of Vienna
classical liberalism
socialism
nationalism
Industrial Revolution
mass production
Marxist-socialism
New Imperialism
Crimean War
Sepoy Rebellion
extraterritoriality
Opium War
Treaty of Nanking
Meiji Restoration
effective occupation
American Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Simon Bolivar
neocolonialism
Western Front
trench warfare
total war
Bolshevik Revolution
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Age of Anxiety
The Great Depression
Joseph Stalin
Five-Year Plans
Benito Mussolini
fascism
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
appeasement
Battle of Stalingrad
Vichy France
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Hiroshima
Holocaust
iron curtain
Cold War
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
United Nations
containment
NATO/Warsaw Pact
Mutually Assured Destruction
proxy wars
Korean War
Vietnam War
National Security Act of 1947
Third World
Mikhail Gorbachev
globalization

CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL ESSAY WRITING

FOR THE FOLLOWING POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS, rate your confidence in being able to address the main points in a clear, concise, and organized essay answer of 1 1/2 - 2 pages.

	A: Low	B: Modest	C: High
Discuss the effects of European expansion on the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Western Europe.
Explain the decisions made, and the impact of these decisions, not to participate in global expansion made by Islamic empires, China and Japan.
Compare and contrast the European political systems of absolutism and constitutionalism.
Describe the intellectual changes taking place during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and discuss their significant effects.
Evaluate the causes, events, and consequences of the Age of Revolution in political, social, and economic terms.
Describe the factors leading to the Industrial Revolution and the significant impacts resulting from this.
Explain the relationship between the industrialized world and the non-industrial world as demonstrated by the cases of India, Africa, China and Japan.
Compare the political and economic experiences of Latin American and the United States in the nineteenth century.
Explain the concept of nationalism and be able to give concrete examples of the development and impact of nationalism in Europe.
Explain the meaning and impact of the concepts of liberalism and socialism
Describe what factors led to World War I and why this conflict had so many dramatic effects.
Describe the many factors that made the 1920's and 1930's an "Age of Anxiety".
Describe the Stalinist Revolution, be able to describe Stalin's strategy for achieving rapid industrialization.
Define the core beliefs of Fascism and trace its growth in Europe and other regions.
Describe the factors contributing to the outbreak of World War II.
Illustrate and explain the significance of changes in the character of warfare in the First and Second World Wars.
Assess the causes of the Cold War, and describe the political and environmental consequences for Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the two superpowers.
Describe the challenges of nation building, be able to compare the problems and the nation-building strategies of particular developing countries.

GLOBAL/MULTICULTURAL SKILLS

IN THIS FINAL SECTION, rate your confidence in being able to effectively accomplish the following less specific, more global history related assignments:

	A: Low	B: Modest	C: High
Describe and define the world's major historical events, ideas, places, people, and other items of historical importance.
Summarize key ideas in history, including major world philophies, religions. and political theories and systems.
Demonstrate an ability to compare and contrast historical experiences across cultures and time.
Demonstrate understanding of the historical roots of current world events.
Demonstrate an ability to analyze cause and effect relationships in history.

Mahalo for completing the HIST 151 Knowledge Survey!