Modern World History Study Guide
Imperialism
Know the definition of imperialism
Reasons why the Europeans were able to expand their power in Africa and Asia
The British East India Company was a trading company that ruled India
The Sepoy Mutiny was significant because it led to direct British rule in India
How did the British rule affect the Indian textile industry? The British closed Indian
textile factories, which devastated the industry
Great Depression
Black Tuesday
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Hoover
New Deal
FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Russian Revolution
Vladmir Lenin
Aleksandr Kerensky
Czar Nicholas II
Rasputin
Leon Trotsky
WWI
Total war
Propaganda
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles
Franz Ferdinand
Zimmerman Note
Fourteen Points
Trench warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfare
League of Nations
WWII
Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan
Allied powers: Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and later the United States
Poland is invaded by Germany September 1, 1939 and starts WWII
Germany sends thousands of aircraft over Britain in bombing raids known as the
Battle of Britain
The Munich Conference was where Czechoslovakia was split up and the
Sudetenland was given to Germany.
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
WWII continued
Isolationism
Fascism
Kamikazes
Anti-comintern Pact
Nonaggression Pact
Convoys
Island Hopping
Pearl Harbor
True or False: (you will have to figure these out on your own!
The militarization of the Rhineland violated the Treaty of Versailles.
The United States provided military aid to Great Britain before entering the war.
Many German Jews could not flee Nazi Germany because the United States and many
European nations would not allow them to enter.
The Atlantic Charter was Roosevelt and Churchill’s joint declaration proclaiming
what they viewed as the purpose of going to war.
Hitler’s Final Solution included less restrictive laws benefiting Germany’s Jewish
population.