INTERNATIONAL HISTORY EXAMINATION
GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS, POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND
MODERN WORLD HISTORY
Comprehensive Assessment of Historical Knowledge, Analytical
Thinking, and Interpretation of Global Historical Developments
SPRING SEMESTER 2026
Communism
A system of government based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Communism is
based on a classless society in which there is common ownership of the means of production.
Plebiscite
A referendum(vote) giving the opportunity to express their opinion for or against a proposal
relating to constitutional issue.
Mandates
Territory taken from one of the defeated countries at the end of the first world war and given to
another country, which would administer it on behalf of the League of Nations.
Reparations
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, Money that one country has to pay another as compensation for war damage. The war guilt
clause was included in the Treaty of Versailles in order to provide legal justification for making
Germany pay reparations to the victorious powers.
Self-determination
The principle that people of common nationality should have the right to form their own
Nations and govern themselves. Wilson's definition of a 'nationality'(based on a common
language) was too simplistic and inappropriate for the situation in Eastern Europe at the end of
the first world war.
Successor States
This was the name given to the new national States(Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria,
and Hungary.) whose existence was confirmed by the Paris peace settlement.
Dictator
An absolute ruler who controls a country without a country using democratic institutions.
Minority Group
A group of people bound together by, for example, common nationality, language, living in a
country dominated by other groups. As a result, such groups often lack political rights and
experience discrimination.
Genoa Conference 1922
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GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONS, POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND
MODERN WORLD HISTORY
Comprehensive Assessment of Historical Knowledge, Analytical
Thinking, and Interpretation of Global Historical Developments
SPRING SEMESTER 2026
Communism
A system of government based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Communism is
based on a classless society in which there is common ownership of the means of production.
Plebiscite
A referendum(vote) giving the opportunity to express their opinion for or against a proposal
relating to constitutional issue.
Mandates
Territory taken from one of the defeated countries at the end of the first world war and given to
another country, which would administer it on behalf of the League of Nations.
Reparations
1|Page
, Money that one country has to pay another as compensation for war damage. The war guilt
clause was included in the Treaty of Versailles in order to provide legal justification for making
Germany pay reparations to the victorious powers.
Self-determination
The principle that people of common nationality should have the right to form their own
Nations and govern themselves. Wilson's definition of a 'nationality'(based on a common
language) was too simplistic and inappropriate for the situation in Eastern Europe at the end of
the first world war.
Successor States
This was the name given to the new national States(Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria,
and Hungary.) whose existence was confirmed by the Paris peace settlement.
Dictator
An absolute ruler who controls a country without a country using democratic institutions.
Minority Group
A group of people bound together by, for example, common nationality, language, living in a
country dominated by other groups. As a result, such groups often lack political rights and
experience discrimination.
Genoa Conference 1922
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