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 Question:
1. Analyze the changes and continuities in Western society? And in Eastern Europe?
Objectives:
Ch. 28
2. Explain the short-term and long-term causes of the Great War
3. Describe the political, psychological, and economic results of World War I.
Ch. 29
4. Describe how the United States was so successful in its rapid economic advance after the
war.
5. Explain the reasons for the rise of fascism.
6. Debate the inevitability of the Great Depression and World War II.
Ch. 30
7. Compare the causes of WWII with WWI.
8. Describe the reasons for the lack of resolve among the Western governments to intervene
against authoritarianism in this era.
9. Compare the conduct of war during WWII and WWI.
Ch. 31
10. Compare Soviet and Western responses during the Cold War.
11. Compare the roles of women in Soviet and Western society and describe how their
changing roles affect these societies.
12. Compare the impact of the Cold War on Eastern and Western Europe.
13. Identify the successes and failures of the communist and capitalist systems.
Ch. 35
14. Identify reasons for the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union’s collapse
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 28
Archduke Ferdinand
Armenian genocide
Treaty of Versailles
Self-determination
League of Nations
Chapter 29
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Nazi
Adolf Hitler
USSR
Lenin
Stalin
Collectivization
Five year plans
Great Depression
New Deal
Totalitarian
Chapter 30
Total War
Blitzkrieg
Vichy France
Holocaust
Pearl Harbor
Yalta
Potsdam
United Nations
Chapter 31
Cold War
Iron curtain
Eastern bloc
Marshall plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Welfare state
European Union
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev
Chapter 35
Reagan
Gorbachev
Perestroika
Key Places:
Locate on the maps…
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Russia
Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
Triple Entente
1914
After Great War
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Poland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Turkey
Cold War Europe
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
West Germany
East Germany
Austria
Poland
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Iron Curtain
Key Events / Dates:
Place on the timeline chronologically…
The West (on left side of timeline)
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
U.S. enters WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Spanish Civil War
Great Depression
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Atomic bombs dropped
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War
Discovery of DNA
Homework:
1. RTN Ch28, pg. 647-656
2. RTN Ch29, pg. 672-678, 681-685
3. RTN Ch29, pg. 690-694, 699-703
4. RTN Ch30, pg. 709-716
5. RTN Ch30, pg. 716-721
6. RTN Ch31, pg. 734-743
7. RTN Ch31, pg. 743-750
8. RTN Ch31, pg. 750-760
9. RTN Ch35, pg. 838-846
The East (on right side of timeline)
Tsar overthrown / Bolshevik Revolution
Armenian genocide
Mussolini takes power
Stalin takes power
Nazi take power
Germany’s Anschluss & union with Sudetenland
WWII begins
German invasion of USSR
End of WWII
Khrushchev takes power
Launch of Sputnik
USSR invasion of Afghanistan
Gorbachev takes power
Fall of Berlin Wall
1914 CE
1989 CE