AP Chapter 30 HW part 1 Due: ______________________
name ________________
Key Terms (vocabulary). Fill in the blanks to the attached vocabulary sheet. Refer to the
vocabulary glossary. Please staple the filled in sheet to your short responses for part 1.
Central Question. (Be able to discuss this. No written response is necessary—yet!)
How did militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism lead to WWI?
Short Responses. Answer these questions in complete sentences.
EUROPE AND WORLD WAR I.
1) Describe the first decade of the twentieth century in terms of peace, trade and
technology. (752) [two sentences]
2) Who did the Young Turks remove from power? When? Why? [two sentences]
3) What happened as a result of Archduke Ferdinand’s death? (753)
4) What was the impact of nationalism on France, Britain, and Germany? (753)
5) Describe the alliance system by analyzing the map on page 754. Which countries
were in the Central Powers? Which countries were in the Entente? How did this
change when World War I broke out?
6) What was the impact of nationalism on the Russian and Austro-Hungarian
Empires? (755)
7) World War I started in 1914. Briefly state what happened on each of these dates:
July 28, July 29, August 1, August 3. (755) The purpose here is for you to
understand the ‘chain reaction’ that occurred.
8) From 1914 to 1917, WWI was essentially a stalemate. Briefly describe what
happened to soldiers when they were ordered to leave their trenches and attack.
Mention the terms, machine gun and poison gas in your response. (757)
[two sentences]
9) Refer to the picture on page 759, describe the role that women played in WWI.
[two sentences]
10) Explain Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy in WWI. How did his policy change?
Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany?(762)
11) Give statistics that reflect the loss of human life in WWI. (762)
12) What was the League of Nations? Why didn’t the U.S. join it? (763)
13)When was the Treaty of Versailles signed? Use the terms reparations and ‘guilt
clause’ in your response. (763)
14) Which areas did Austria-Hungary and Germany lose after WWI? (764)
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (761-762) & NEP (766)
1) Describe the situation in Petrograd in March 1917. (Mention food, housewives,
soldiers, and the tsar’s abdication in your answer). (761) [two sentences]
2) Who were the Bolsheviks? Who was their leader? (761)
3) Note: the Provisional Government was the temporary government put in place
after the tsar (czar) abdicated. As a result of the “October Revolution”, what did
Lenin do the Provisional government? (761-762)
4) What did the Bolsheviks nationalize? (This refers to a government takeover)
What did the Bolsheviks force the peasants to do? (762)
5) Describe the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in detail. (762) [two sentences]
6) Describe Lenin’s New Economic policy. (766)
7) Who took over after Lenin died? When? What did he do to Trotsky? (766)
This ends Chapter part 1.
AP Chapter 30 HW part 2
name ____________
Short Responses. You must answer these questions in complete sentences.
CHINA
1) Who did China’s Empress Dowager Cixi encourage to rise up and expel
foreigners? As a result of this ‘Boxer Rebellion’, what did China have to pay? (768)
2) Who was Yuan Shikai? What action did he take that led to the Sun Yat-sen’s
presidential election? (768)
3) When did the last emperor abdicate? (This marks the end of all Chinese
dynasties!) (768-769)
4) Explain the negative actions taken by the warlords (regional generals).
(what impact did they have on trade, infrastructure and the society?) (769)
5) After SunYat-sen died, who took over?
6) Why was Chiang Kai Shek’s government unsuccessful? (769)
Note: important conclusion—the period from 1911 to 1949 was a time of
Instability and corruption in Chinese History.
THE NEW MIDDLE EAST
1) Refer to the attached glossary. Define the term Balfour Declaration.
2) Why were the Arab people upset with Britain and France after WWI? (769)
3) Refer to the attached glossary. Define the term mandate system.
Keeping it simple!!! The Mandates in the Middle East were temporary colonies.
Locate Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq. Which country controlled them?
4) Which two regions did France claim as Mandates? (770)
5) Refer to the glossary. Who was Theodor Herzl. Give details about why he was important.
TURKEY
1) Who was Mustafa Kemal (a.k.a. Kemal Ataturk)? (772) What did he do in
1923? (772)
2) How did Kemal Ataturk westernize the traditional Turkish family? (772)
3) Jewish immigrants begin to arrive in Palestine in 1920. How did the indigenous
Arab Palestinians react? Why were the Jewish people also angry at the British?
(last paragraph 772) MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE LAST SENTENCE
ON THIS PAGE!
SOCIETY, CULTURE AND OTHER STUFF
1) Which countries granted women the right to vote between 1893 and 1945? (774)
2) What was Planck noted for? What was Einstein noted for? (774, Keep it simple)
3) Describe the achievements of early aircraft builders and pilots. [two sentences]
(775)
4) Describe the impact that radio had on society by 1930. [two sentences] (775)
(Read the rest of the chapter)
CONCLUSION
List four bullet points—one for each paragraph of the conclusion.
~Go on to the next page to complete the key terms (vocabulary)~
Key Terms Glossary for Chapter 30. Fill in the blanks to the next page by referring to this glossary.
Western Front – A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from
Switzerland to the North Sea. Most fighting occurred here.
Theodore Herzl – Founder of the Zionist movement (Jewish nationalism). Herzl urged the creation a
Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration – Statement issued by Britain’s foreign secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the
establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Bolsheviks – Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. Under Lenin, the
Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin – Leader of the Bolshevik Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917, before returning
to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution.
Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Wilson was the leading figure at
the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but was unable to persuade the United States to join the League of
Nations.
League of Nations – International peacekeeping organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace
and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join.
Treaty of Versailles – The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied Powers after World War I. Under this
treaty, Germany was required to dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented
by many Germans.
New Economic Policy – Vladimir Lenin’s policy proclaimed in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet
economy by allowing small private enterprises. Stalin ended it in 1928.
Sun Yat-sen – Chinese nationalist revolutionary who founded and led the Guomindang until his death.
Yuan Shikai – Chinese General and first president of the Chinese Republic. He stood in the way of Sun Yatsen’s democratic movement.
Guomindang – Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After
1925, the Guomindang party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek who turned it into an increasingly
authoritarian movement.
Mandate System – Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious
powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision.
Max Planck – German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for
physics in 1918.
Albert Einstein – German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space
and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Name ____________________________
Key Terms Glossary for Chapter 30. Fill in the blanks to these terms by using the glossary above.
Western Front – A line of ______________ and fortifications in
_______________ that stretched without a break from _______________
to the North Sea.
Theodore Herzl – Founder of the _______________ movement (Jewish
nationalism). ____________ urged the creation a Jewish national
homeland in ________________, which eventually became ___________.
Balfour Declaration – Statement issued by Britain’s foreign
secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a
____________________________________, which eventually became Israel.
Bolsheviks – Radical _______________ political party founded by
Vladimir _____________ in 1903. Under Lenin, the __________________
seized power in November 1917 during the ________________________.
Vladimir Lenin – Leader of the ________________________. He lived in
exile in Switzerland until 1917, before returning to Russia to lead the
Bolsheviks to victory during the__________________________________.
Woodrow Wilson – President of the ______________________ from
1913 to 1921. Wilson was the leading figure at the Paris Peace
Conference of 1919, but was unable to persuade the United States to
join the_____________________________.
League of Nations – International __________________________
founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly
weakened by the refusal of the _______________________ to join.
Treaty of Versailles – The treaty imposed on ______________ by the
______________ Powers after World War I. Under this treaty, Germany
was required to dismantle its military and give up some lands to
Poland. It was resented by many Germans rise of Hitler.
New Economic Policy – Vladimir Lenin’s policy proclaimed in 1924
to encourage the revival of the _____________________ by allowing
small _______________________________. Stalin ended it in 1928.
Sun Yat-sen – Chinese nationalist revolutionary who founded and
led the ______________________ until his death. He led the overthrow
of the _____________ Dynasty, which was China’s last dynasty.
Yuan Shikai – Chinese _________________ and first president of the
Chinese Republic. He didn’t stop Sun Yat-Sen from overthrowing the
Qing dynasty, but he shortened Sun Yat-Sen’s rule.
Guomindang – Nationalist political party founded on democratic
principles by ________________ in 1912. After 1925, the _____________
party was headed by _______________________ who turned it into an
increasingly ____________________________ movement.
Mandate System – Allocation of former ________________colonies and
___________________ possessions to the victorious powers after World
War I; it was administered under ______________________ supervision.
Max Planck –_______________________ who developed ______________
theory and was awarded the _________________ for physics in 1918.
Albert Einstein – German physicist who developed the ____________
of __________________________ which states that time, space and mass
are relative to each other and not fixed.
Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared or E = mc2.