Evaluate Arguments

Explain how some used Social Darwinism to justify imperialism.

Why wasn't lasting unity among the Big Three leaders achieved by the Yalta Conference?

Why did the Chartists make demands for A) a secret ballot, B) salaries for members of Parliament?

How were religious reform movements of the 1500s impacted by the printing press?

How were the Axis powers pushed back by the Allies in the beginning?

Explain the importance of each term, person, or place: humanism; humanities; Petrarch; Florence; patron; perspective; Leonardo; Michelangelo; Raphael; Baldassare Castiglione; Niccolo Machiavelli.

Define (a) sweatshop, (b) strikebreaker, (c) anarchist, (d) trade union, (e) collective bargaining.

Explain the importance of each term, person, or place: appeasement; pacifism; Neutrality Acts; Axis powers; Francisco Franco; Anschluss; Sudetenland; Nazi-Soviet Pact.

How is society weakened by ethnic, racial, and religious hatreds?

In your opinion, why was the 1919 - 1939 period called the 20-year truce by some historians?

Why might inventors be more creative working in an invention factory, such as Edison's, than working on their own?

What lessons did the experience of the blitz teach the British?

How did the government regulate commercial banks?

Explain the significance of: (a) Knights of Labor, (b) Haymarket Riot, (c) American Federation of Labor, (d) ILGWU, (e) Triangle Fire.