**Topics for Final exam (TROY 2024)**

**1. The Ages of Discoveries and Exploration** - Motives; - Main discoveries (4), - Columbian exchange **2. Europe and America in the age of revolutions:** The causes, consequences, and impacts of three major revolutions - British civil war - American war for independence - French revolution **3. Industrial revolutio/indusrtrialization** - The reasons why the first industrial revolution began in Great Britain; - Main achievements of the First and Second Industrial revolutions; - Positive and negative impacts of the industrial revolution. **4. World War I:** - Long –term - Immediate cause - Impacts on Vietnam **5. Meiji Reform:** - The reasons for the reform or the context of the reform (internal and external contexts) - Main reform policies; - Reasons for the success **6. China: from feudal to semi-colonial and semi-feudal country** - The Opium war (reasons and consequences) - The attempted reforms (Hundred Days of Reform; The 1911 Revolution; Self-Strengthening Movement) - Reasons for the failure of the reforms. **7. World War II:** - The causes of WWII - Impacts of WWII on Vietnam **_Note: Students are allowed to consult with texts only; access to electronic devices is strictly forbidden._**