UNIDAD EDUCATIVA PARTICULAR ECOMUNDO
STUDY GUIDE I TERM
SUBJECT: World History
VERSION: 1 – 2
GRADE: 2nd Baccalaureate
SECTION: B – D
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015 – 2016
TEACHER: Ms. Isabel Banegas
NAME: ___________________________ DATE: ___________________
UNIT 1
Causes of World War 1
- Key characteristics of the European powers of 1900s
- Long-term causes of World War 1:
o Bismarck’s web of alliances.
o The new course and Weltpolitik.
o The emergence of the alliance system.
o The situation in the Balkans.
- Short-term causes: the crisis years.
o Bosnian Crisis
o The first and second Moroccan crisis.
o The first and second Balkan wars.
o Other developments, the arms race and militarism.
- Immediate causes of the war: July crisis.
- The contribution of the Powers to the outbreak of World War 1.
World War 1 and Total War
- How was WWI fought on land, sea and air
o Trench warfare and the stalemate
World War 1 and Total War
- Overview of the war: Western Front:
o Failure of the Schlieffen Plan.
o The USA joins the war.
o The victory of the allies.
- The Eastern Front
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Reasons for Germany’s defeat in WWI
UNIT 2
Results of World War I
- Impact of the war in Europe
o Economic consequences
o Political consequences
- Impact of the war outside of Europe: the situation in 1919
o America
- Armistice settlement and the mood of the German population
- Terms of the Treaty of Versailles
o War guilt
o Disarmament
o Territorial changes
o Mandates
o Reparations
- Criticism of the Treaty of Versailles
Causes of World War II in Europe: The Failure of Collective Security
- Failure of Collective Security
o Collective Security and the League of Nations
o Dealing with international dispute
- Problems for the League of Nations in the 1920s
o Changing membership of the League
o Absence of major powers
o Absence of the USSR
o Absence of Germany
- Ruhr Crisis and Dawes Plan
- Manchuria crisis
- Abyssinia crisis
UNIT 3
Causes of WWII in Europe: Hitler’s War
- Hitler’s foreign policy aims: 1919-33
- Hitler and the short-term causes of World War II (1933-38)
o Revising the Treaty of Versailles
o The European Response
o German remilitarization of the Rhineland
o Hitler’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War
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o Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact
o The Hossbach Memorandum
o Anschluss
o The takeover of Czechoslovakia
Hitler and the immediate causes of World War II (1939)
o The invasion of Poland
Appeasement as a cause of World War II
o Can appeasement as a policy in the 1930s therefore be justified at all?
o Chamberlain and appeasement
Reviewing the causes of war
o Britain
o France
o USSR
o Italy