NY Regents Global History II Exam Flashcards

Q: What is the format of the Global History and Geography II Regents exam?

The exam has three parts: Part I is 28 stimulus-based multiple-choice questions; Part II is two constructed-response question (CRQ) sets totaling 7 one-credit items that test skills like causation, comparison, and document analysis; and Part III is one enduring issues essay based on five documents. The whole exam is paper-based and school-administered.

Q: What score do I need to pass the Global II Regents?

You need a scale score of 65 on the NYSED 0-100 Regents scale. NYSED stresses that 65 is a converted scale score, not 65 percent of questions correct, so the number of raw points needed for a 65 changes from administration to administration based on the conversion chart.

Q: How long is the Global History and Geography II Regents exam?

NYSED administration directions instruct schools to end the examination exactly three hours after the actual starting time. Students budget that time across the 28 multiple-choice questions, the two CRQ sets, and the enduring issues essay.

Q: What time period and topics does Global History and Geography II cover?

The Grade 10 framework begins with a snapshot of the world around 1750 and runs to the present. Major themes include the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, industrialization, imperialism, the world wars, the Cold War, decolonization, modernization, globalization and the environment, and human rights violations.

Q: What is the enduring issues essay?

Part III asks students to identify an enduring issue raised by a set of five documents, define it, argue why it is significant, and explain how it has endured or changed across time and place using evidence from at least three documents plus outside knowledge. Common enduring issues include conflict, power, inequality, scarcity, and human rights violations.

Q: Are these flashcards aligned to the current NYSED framework?

Yes. The cards follow the NYS Social Studies Framework key ideas 10.1 through 10.10 and the source-analysis and writing skills tested across Parts I, II, and III. They are original study prompts written for active recall, not copied exam questions.

Question 1

Part I of the Global II Regents

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28 stimulus-based multiple-choice questions. Each item is tied to a document such as a map, chart, cartoon, photo, or excerpt, so you must read the source before choosing an answer rather than answering from memory alone.

Question 2

Part II of the Global II Regents (CRQs)

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Two constructed-response question sets containing 7 one-credit items total. CRQs test discrete skills: identifying a cause or effect, stating a similarity or difference, identifying a turning point, or analyzing a document's source and purpose.

Question 3

Part III enduring issues essay

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One essay based on five documents. You identify an enduring issue, define it, use at least three documents plus outside information to show it is significant, and explain how it endured or changed over time and place.

Question 4

Passing the Regents: scale score 65

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Passing is a scale score of 65, NOT 65 percent of questions correct. NYSED converts your raw points to a 0-100 scale using a conversion chart, so the raw points needed for a 65 vary by administration.

Question 5

What is an 'enduring issue'?

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A challenge or problem that has been debated or has affected people across long stretches of time and many places. Examples: conflict, power, inequality, scarcity, human rights violations, and the impact of trade or technology.

Question 6

Document analysis: sourcing

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Before using a document, identify its author, the author's point of view or purpose, the type of source, and the historical context. A source's bias affects how much weight its claims deserve as evidence.

Question 7

Answering a comparison CRQ

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State BOTH a similarity and a difference when asked to compare. A common trap is writing one true fact that does not actually answer the comparison being asked.

Question 8

Causation vs. correlation on the Regents

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Separate long-term causes, short-term triggers, and effects. Distractors often list a real background condition as if it were the immediate cause, so match the event to the specific cause or effect the question requests.

Question 9

The world in 1750 (Key Idea 10.1)

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Around 1750 the globe held powerful Eurasian land empires (Qing, Mughal, Ottoman, Tokugawa), coastal African kingdoms, and expanding European maritime empires linked by growing oceanic trade networks.

Question 10

Mughal Empire

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A Muslim-ruled empire dominating much of South Asia, known for centralized administration and Indo-Islamic art and architecture (the Taj Mahal). It declined in the 1700s, opening the way for British expansion in India.

Question 11

Tokugawa Japan and sakoku

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Japan's Tokugawa shogunate enforced a policy of national seclusion (sakoku), tightly restricting foreign contact and trade. This isolation lasted until U.S. Commodore Perry forced Japan open in the 1850s.

Question 12

The Enlightenment

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An 18th-century movement applying reason to government and society. Thinkers argued people have natural rights and that legitimate government rests on the consent of the governed, ideas that fueled the Atlantic revolutions.

Question 13

John Locke

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Enlightenment philosopher who argued people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and that government exists by a social contract. If a government violates rights, the people may replace it.

Question 14

Montesquieu

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Enlightenment thinker who advocated separation of powers among branches of government to prevent tyranny. His ideas influenced constitutional checks and balances, including the U.S. Constitution.

Question 15

French Revolution (1789)

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A revolution driven by Enlightenment ideas, social inequality among the three estates, financial crisis, and Old Regime abuses. It abolished feudal privilege and produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Question 16

Haitian Revolution

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Led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, enslaved people in Saint-Domingue revolted against France and established Haiti in 1804, the first successful large-scale slave revolt and the first independent Black republic.

Question 17

Simon Bolivar

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The 'Liberator' who led independence movements that freed several South American colonies from Spanish rule in the early 1800s, inspired by Enlightenment ideals of liberty and self-government.

Question 18

Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to one's nation, often based on shared language, culture, or history. In the 1800s it both unified peoples (Italy, Germany) and fragmented multiethnic empires.

Question 19

Industrial Revolution

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The shift from hand production to machine and factory manufacturing, beginning in Britain in the late 1700s. It transformed energy, transportation, and labor and triggered rapid urbanization.

Question 20

Urbanization during industrialization

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The rapid growth of cities as people moved from farms to factory jobs. It created crowded slums, public health problems, and a new urban working class, fueling demands for reform.

Question 21

Capitalism and laissez-faire

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An economic system of private ownership and profit-seeking. Laissez-faire held that government should not interfere in the market, a view challenged by reformers as industrial abuses grew.

Question 22

Karl Marx and Marxism

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Marx argued history is a struggle between classes and predicted that workers (the proletariat) would overthrow factory owners (the bourgeoisie). His ideas inspired later communist and socialist movements.

Question 23

Meiji Restoration

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After 1868, Japan rapidly modernized and industrialized by borrowing Western technology, education, and military models while keeping its own identity, becoming a major imperial power by 1900.

Question 24

Labor reform and unions

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As factory conditions worsened, workers organized unions and pressed for reforms such as shorter hours, child-labor limits, and safer workplaces, gradually expanding government regulation of industry.

Question 25

Imperialism (Key Idea 10.4)

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The domination of one country over the political, economic, and cultural life of another. Industrial nations sought raw materials, markets, and prestige, expanding control over Africa and Asia in the 1800s.

Question 26

Berlin Conference (1884-85)

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A meeting where European powers set rules for dividing Africa among themselves with no African representation. It accelerated the 'Scramble for Africa' and drew borders ignoring ethnic boundaries.

Question 27

Direct vs. indirect rule

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Direct rule replaced local leaders with officials from the imperial power. Indirect rule governed through existing local rulers under imperial supervision, a method especially used by Britain.

Question 28

Opium Wars and spheres of influence

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Britain defeated Qing China in the Opium Wars (mid-1800s), forcing unequal treaties. Foreign powers then carved China into spheres of influence with special trading and legal privileges.

Question 29

Resistance to imperialism

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Colonized peoples resisted through revolts and movements such as the Sepoy Mutiny in India, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and Ethiopian resistance at Adwa, where Ethiopia defeated Italy in 1896.

Question 30

Causes of World War I

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Often summarized as M-A-I-N: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was the spark that set the alliance system into war.

Question 31

Total war

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A war in which nations mobilize all resources, industry, and civilians for the war effort. World War I introduced this scale through conscription, rationing, propaganda, and new weapons.

Question 32

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

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The settlement ending WWI that blamed Germany (war-guilt clause), imposed heavy reparations, and reduced German territory. Its harsh terms fueled resentment that contributed to WWII.

Question 33

Russian Revolution (1917)

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Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew Russia's provisional government, withdrew from WWI, and established a communist state, the Soviet Union, the first nation ruled on Marxist principles.

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Totalitarianism

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A system where the state seeks total control over political, economic, and social life, often under one party or leader. Examples between the wars include Stalin's USSR, Hitler's Germany, and Mussolini's Italy.

Question 35

The Holocaust

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The systematic, state-sponsored murder of about six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany during WWII. It is a central example of genocide and a human rights violation on the Regents.

Question 36

Origins of the Cold War

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After WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union became rival superpowers divided by capitalism vs. communism. Disputes over postwar Europe at Yalta and Potsdam hardened into decades of tension.

Question 37

Containment and the Truman Doctrine

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The U.S. policy of stopping the spread of communism. The Truman Doctrine pledged aid to nations resisting communism, and the Marshall Plan rebuilt Western Europe to make it less vulnerable.

Question 38

Proxy wars

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Conflicts where the superpowers backed opposing sides without fighting each other directly, such as Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, keeping the Cold War from becoming open U.S.-Soviet war.

Question 39

Nonalignment

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A Cold War movement of nations, many newly independent, that refused to formally side with either the U.S. or the USSR, seeking independence and aid from both blocs.

Question 40

Glasnost and perestroika

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Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980s USSR: glasnost (openness in speech and politics) and perestroika (economic restructuring). They loosened control and contributed to the Soviet collapse in 1991.

Question 41

Decolonization

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The process after WWII by which colonies in Asia and Africa won independence from European powers, sometimes peacefully and sometimes through armed struggle, reshaping the global map.

Question 42

Mohandas Gandhi

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Leader of India's independence movement who used nonviolent civil disobedience (satyagraha), such as the Salt March, to pressure Britain. India gained independence in 1947.

Question 43

Partition of India (1947)

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British India was divided into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The split triggered mass migration and deadly violence, and left lasting India-Pakistan tensions.

Question 44

Chinese Communist Revolution (1949)

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Mao Zedong's Communists defeated the Nationalists and founded the People's Republic of China. Mao later launched the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution before Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

Question 45

Creation of Israel and Arab-Israeli conflict

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Zionism and the 1948 founding of Israel, following the end of the British mandate, led to ongoing conflict with neighboring Arab states and Palestinians over territory, refugees, and statehood.

Question 46

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Founder of modern Turkey who modernized and secularized the new republic in the 1920s-30s, replacing many traditional Islamic institutions with Western-style law, dress, and the Latin alphabet.

Question 47

Iranian Revolution (1979)

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A revolution that overthrew the Western-backed Shah and established an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, a key example of tension between modernization and traditional culture.

Question 48

Globalization

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The growing interconnection of economies, cultures, and communications worldwide. Driven by technology, trade, and institutions like the WTO, IMF, and multinational corporations, it brings both benefits and inequality.

Question 49

Apartheid and Nelson Mandela

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Apartheid was South Africa's system of legal racial segregation. Nelson Mandela led resistance, was imprisoned 27 years, and after release became the country's first Black president as apartheid ended in the early 1990s.

Question 50

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

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A UN document adopted after WWII setting out fundamental rights for all people. It became a global standard for judging human rights violations such as genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur.

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