AP CHAPTER 31 PART 1
name __________________________
DUE DATES: Chapter 31 part 1 is due on Friday, February 1, 2013
Chapter 31 part 2 is due on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Essay Questions. Each essay response should be 7-9 sentences in length. Be sure
to include a strong topic sentence and convincing supporting details. Do these
AFTER you have answered the Short Response Questions.
1) How was the Soviet Union transformed politically, economically, and socially
by Stalin? Terms to use: dictatorship, purges, Five Year Plans, Kulaks,
collectives, consumer goods, heavy industrial goods (weapons). (780-783)
2) What triggered the Great Depression in 1929? How did the Great Depression impact
both industrial nations and non-industrial nations? Terms to use:
Stock Market Crash, unemployment, war reparations, Smoot-Hawley tariff,
New Deal, authoritarian rule in Latin America. (783-785)
3) What were the principle causes and effects of fascism? (Make a list of terms and
people based on your short responses, then write your answer. Be sure to
emphasize Mussolini and Hitler.) (786-788)
Short Response Questions. Note: You do NOT have to do a vocabulary list. This
vocabulary information will be included in these questions. Most of these responses only
need to be one sentence in length, but do NOT skimp on details. If [2S] is indicated,
please make sure that the response is at least two complete sentences.
THE STALIN REVOLUTION
1) After Lenin died in 1924, who became the leader of the Soviet Union?
Describe how he made himself the absolute dictator of the USSR. (780) [2S]
2) What was the goal of Stalin’s Five Year Plans? (781)
3) Explain what collectivization means. What happened to small farms? What
was expected from collective farms? (782) [2S]
4) Who were the Kulaks? What did Stalin do to the Kulaks when they resisted
collectivization? How many died? (782) [2S]
5) In Stalin’s second Five Year Plan, which type of goods were produced more,
heavy industrial goods or consumer goods? Why? What impact did this have
on the people of the USSR? (782)
6) Who did Stalin ‘purge’ in 1937? What impact did this have on the Red Army?
What methods did Stalin use to get the accused officers to confess? (783)
7) In terms of industrial power, where did the Soviet Union rank in the 1930s?
(783)
THE DEPRESSION
1) What happened in October of 1929 that led directly to the Great Depression?
What was the U.S. unemployment rate in 1932? (783)
2) Why did Germany and Austria quit paying their war reparations? (784)
3) What was the result of the Smoot Hawley tariff in 1930? (784)
4) How many people were unemployed in Germany in 1932? (784)
5) In 1932, which American president developed the New Deal plan? What was
its purpose? (785)
(TURN THE PAGE)
6) What was the impact of the Depression on Brazil, Columbia, Argentina and
Bolivia? (785) [Give a simple one sentence answer.]
7) In response to the Depression, who seized control of several Latin American
countries? How did they rule? What did they hope to do? (785) [2S]
8) Which photographer took the picture on page 784? What is the obvious contrast between the billboard advertisement and the people standing in front of it?
THE RISE OF FASCISM (Note: Fascism started after World War I—learn why!)
1) After World War I, why did increasing numbers of people reject representative
governments? (785) [Give a simple one sentence answer.]
2) In Italy, what did unemployed veterans and violent youths do? Why? (785)
3) Who was Benito Mussolini? What party did he start? How strong was this
party by 1921? Give details. (786)
4) When and where did Hitler write Mein Kampf? What were the main points of
the book with regard to his views on the Jewish people and the so-called
‘master race’? (786) [2S]
5) When did Hitler become chancellor? What did he proclaim himself in 1934?
What did he now call Germany? (787)
6) Describe the German economy in 1936 in terms of business and
unemployment. What did people have to give up in order for these gains to
occur? (787)
7) Give a brief one sentence answer or make a chart for the following questions.
a) What did Hitler do in 1933? (787)
b) What did Italy do in 1935? What did Hitler do the following year? (787)
c) Which country did Hitler invade in March 1938? (787)
d) In September of 1938, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia as a result of which
conference? (787) IMPORTANT: This was due to the ‘appeasement’ of
European officials, most notably Britain’s Neville Chamberlain.
e) Which country did Hitler invade on September 1, 1939? (Be sure to point
out on your answer that this event started WWII.)
AP CHAPTER 31 PART 2 DUE DATE: Tuesday, February 5
name ______________
Essay Questions. Each essay response should be 6-8 sentences in length. Be
sure to include a strong topic sentence and convincing supporting details. Answer
these AFTER you have completed the short response questions.
1) What were the main causes of World War II?
>Under Hitler, explain how Germany violated the Versailles Treaty by
rearming the Rhineland, taking Austria, taking Czechoslovakia as a result of
the Munich Pact, and attacking Poland .
>Explain Japan’s assaults on ChinaU.S. oil embargoPearl Harbor
2) Why did Germany and Japan lose the war?
>Explain how Germany’s attack on RussiaRussian victoriesRussia’s
attacks on the eastern front; D-day attack western front invasion
>Japan’s attacks on ChinaU.S> oil embargoPearl Harbor4 years of
‘island hopping’ campaignsatomic bombs
Short Response Questions. Note: You do NOT have to do a vocabulary list.
This information will be included in these questions.
EAST ASIA 1931-1945 (Note: East Asia = China, Korea, & Japan)
1) Why did Japan attack and conquer Manchuria in 1931? What did the
Japanese rename Manchuria? (788)
2) After Sun Yat-sen died, Chiang Kai-shek took over the Guomindang (the
Nationalist Party). What did Chiang do the communists in 1927? (788-789)
(Review facts: The last dynasty fell in 1911. China was ruled as a republic
from 1911-1949; this was a time of severe political and socioeconomic
instability).
3) Who was Mao Zedong? Which party did he join in the 1920s? Which writer
heavily influenced Mao? (789)
4) During the Long March, Chiang’s army chased Mao’s communists. When
was the Long March? How many miles was it? When did it end?
How many men did Mao start with? How many were alive at the end?
(789)
5) What happened in July 1937? What cities were seized? (790)
6) After bombing Nanjing and Canton what did Japanese soldiers do while on
the ground? (790)
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1) Describe the German blitzkrieg raids. (One sentence only.)
2) Describe the Battle of Stalingrad. Who fought in this battle? Who lost?
(793)
3) In Egypt, who fought in the Battle of El Alamein? Who won? Why? (793)
4) Study the map on page 794. List the countries that were under German
control, allied with Germany or occupied by Germany.
5) Refer to the map on page 796. What had Japan conquered between 1937
and 1941? Which region did the Japanese attack in 1941 and 1942?
6) What happened on August 6, 1945? What happened three days later?
What happened on August 14,1945? (797)
7) Did the Communists (under Mao) or the Nationalists (the Guomindang under
Chiang) win the Chinese Civil War? What happened on October 1, 1949?
Which island did the losers flee to? (798)
(TURN THE PAGE)
THE CHARACTER OF WARFARE
1) About how many people died in WWII? About how many of these were
civilians? How many Russians died? (798)
2) Technology. How was synthetic rubber made? Why was radar important?
What did cryptanalysts do? (798)
3) What did German companies build in order to implement Hitler’s final solution?
(800)
4) What was the Holocaust? How many lives did it claim? (800)
5) Which other groups of people were killed by Hitler? How many of these
people died? (800)
6) Read the quote by Augusta Clawson on page 802. What was her wartime
occupation? Why was this unusual? What problem did she face? Despite
this, why did she enjoy her job?
7) Conclusion. After WWII, why was the ‘entire planet’ now vulnerable to human
destruction? (803)
8) Which two superpowers emerged after WWII? (803)
9) What happened to European empires after WWII? Why? (Note: the term for
this is decolonization. (803)