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  1. 1.What were the causes and consequences of the Mongol conquest of China?

    • •Mongol campaigns that ended Jin and Song rule and created the Yuan Dynasty
    • •The Mongols bypassed China and conquered only Central Asia and Persia
    • •The Great Wall successfully prevented the Mongol conquest of China
    • •The Mongol conquest permanently divided China into several states

  2. 2.What was the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) primarily known for establishing?

    • •The boundaries of the Roman Empire
    • •The first international trade agreement
    • •The concept of state sovereignty in international relations
    • •The rules of naval warfare

  3. 3.What was the significance of the Battle of the Somme (1916)?

    • •Decisive Allied breakthrough that ended World War I twelve months later
    • •One of WWI's bloodiest battles showing the horrors of industrial trench warfare
    • •German offensive that nearly captured Paris and forced an armistice
    • •Last major battle fought with cavalry, ending horsepower in war

  4. 4.What were the key causes of World War I beyond the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?

    • •Militarism, alliance systems, imperial rivalries, and nationalism
    • •Collapse of the Concert of Europe after the Franco-Prussian War
    • •Religious conflicts between Protestantism and Catholicism across Central Europe
    • •Economic competition for African colonies as the primary driver

  5. 5.What was the strategic logic behind the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?

    • •Both nations agreed to use only conventional weapons as sufficient deterrence
    • •NATO guaranteed automatic US retaliation against any Soviet attack on Europe
    • •Formal UN treaty requiring both superpowers to disarm simultaneously
    • •Nuclear deterrence through survivable arsenals guaranteeing mutual destruction

  6. 6.What was the significance of the Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia?

    • •Abolition of serfdom in Russia under conditions that limited peasant freedom
    • •Religious reform separating the Orthodox Church from state control
    • •Immediate grant of full civil rights and land redistribution to serfs
    • •Failed reform measure leading directly to an 1861 peasant uprising

  7. 7.What was the Thirty Years' War and what were its primary outcomes?

    • •Devastating European conflict ending with Westphalia and a new state order
    • •Religious war between Christianity and Islam fought mainly in the Balkans
    • •Rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire that established Austrian independence
    • •Prolonged dynastic conflict between France and Britain over German lands

  8. 8.What was the significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)?

    • •French colonial reform ending slavery in the Caribbean in the 1790s
    • •First colonial revolution in Latin America inspiring Simón Bolívar
    • •Successful slave rebellion creating Haiti as an independent Black republic
    • •Slave rebellion in the American South that nearly overthrew plantations

  9. 9.What was the significance of the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46)?

    • •Trials organized by the Allies to distribute Germany's assets after World War II
    • •Trials establishing accountability for crimes against humanity
    • •Military tribunals organized by Germany to prosecute Nazi war criminals
    • •UN-mandated tribunal that created the International Criminal Court

  10. 10.What were the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and their significance?

    • •War crimes laws Nazi Germany imposed on conquered territories
    • •Nazi laws stripping Jews of citizenship and banning intermarriage
    • •German laws forbidding any religion other than Nazi ideology
    • •SS regulations governing concentration camp administration