Week 10 Study Terms

Question 1

Counterfactuals

Answer 1

Arguments about things that did not occur.
(The “what ifs”)

Question 2

Adolf Hitler

Answer 2

Leader of Nazi Germany

Question 3

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 3

Archduke, nephew to Emperor Franz Joseph
Assassination is commonly associated with the start of WWI

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

All the circumstances (social, political, economic, etc.) that influence or limit those choices
Significance: Linked with agency, historians study how each one shapes the other

Question 5

Determinism

Answer 5

The extent to which events in history are determined or constrained by some factor and therefore in a sense inevitable
Significance: A form of how historians study cause and consequence

Question 6

Contingency

Answer 6

The extent to which events in history are not constrained or predetermined, and depend on too many variables to predict
Significance: A form of how historians study cause and consequence