20th: the West & USSR Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Crisis of the European World Order,
Ascent of the United States, &
the Cold War
...is about exploring the global conflicts that shake Western Europe’s hegemony, while catapulting the United
States and Soviet Union to the status of superpowers: WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, and the Cold War.
Overarching Ideas:
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Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
Ever intensifying trade is a powerful force for social and political change.
Objectives:
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Explain causes and effects of World War I.
Explain the reasons for the rise of authoritarian governments in Europe after 1914.
Explain causes and effects of World War II.
Compare the Cold War development of Western and Soviet societies political, economically, and
culturally.
5. Identify reasons for the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union’s collapse.
6. Describe the political, economic, and social trends of the post-Cold War world.
7. Analyze the changes and continuities in the West and Russia between 1914 and today.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 28
Archduke Ferdinand
Armenian genocide
USSR
Lenin
Treaty of Versailles
Self-determination
League of Nations
Chapter 29
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Nazi
Adolf Hitler
Totalitarian
Stalin
Collectivization
Five year plans
Great Depression
New Deal
Chapter 30
Total War
Blitzkrieg
Vichy France
Holocaust
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
Chapter 31
Cold War
Iron curtain
Eastern bloc
Marshall plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Welfare state
Technocrat
European Union
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev
Chapter 35
Reagan
Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Cumulative Content:
The span of European history…
Classical
Commercial agriculture
Slavery
Greek city-states
Alexander the Great
Hellenistic Age
Roman Empire
Augustus
Pax Romana
Spread of Christianity
Decline of Rome
Post-Classical
Orthodox Christianity
Caesaropapism
Byzantium
Kievan-Rus
Catholicism
Early Middle Ages
Feudalism
Manorialism
Vikings
Charlemagne
High Middle Ages
Crusades
Gothic
Hanseatic League
Late Middle Ages
Bubonic plague
Global Interaction
Renaissance
Italian city-states
Imperialism / maritime
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Reformations
Scientific Revolution
Absolute monarchy
Parliamentary monarchy
Enlightenment
Enlightened Despotism
Cottage industries
Western Hegemony
Industrial Revolution
French Revolution
Congress of Vienna
2nd Industrial Revolution
Colonialism
Unification of Italy
Unification of Germany
Mass leisure culture
Darwin / Social Darwinism
Key Places:
Locate on the maps…
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Russia
Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
Triple Entente
1914
Key Places:
Locate on the maps…
After Great War
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Poland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Turkey
Key Places:
Locate on the maps…
Cold War Europe
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
West Germany
East Germany
Austria
Poland
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Iron Curtain
Guided Timeline:
The West
USSR
1905
1914-1918
1914
1915
1917
1919
1922
1917
1917-1924
1921
1927-1953
1929
1930
1932
1935
1938
19321934
1939-1945
1945
19361938
1939
1941
1941
1945
1947
1945-1948
1949
19501953
1949
1953-1964
1961
1962
19631975
1979
1979
1980
19811988
1985-1991
1989-1991
1990
2000