World History II – Test I Study Guide
Key Terms to Know:
Domino Theory
Cuban Missile Crisis
Super Powers
Kristallnacht
Black Shirts
Gestapo
Flappers
Island Hopping
Key People to Know:
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Josef Stalin
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Stalingrad
Appeasement
Hiroshima
Blitzkrieg
Lend-Lease Act
Cold War
Satellite Nations
Hydrogen Bombs
Truman Doctine
Containment
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Vietnam War
Vietcong
New Deal
Russification
Surrealism
Dawes Plan
Nuremberg Laws
Spanish Civil War
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khruschev
Themes to Know/Consider:
1 - Be able to discuss the emerging global patterns: What conditions made WWII break out in Europe. Analyze the
emergence of Dictators in Major European Countries.
2 - Be able to discuss WWII: Some key battles & the Holocaust. What impact did the United States play in the
conflict?
3 - Be able to discuss the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. Why & how did the Cold war world take
shape? What were some “hot” conflicts that manifested directly from the cold war world.
4 - LOOK OVER THE POTENTIAL TEST ESSAYS FROM CHAPTERS 16, 17 & 18. One of these three will be
your document-based essay question!
World History II – Test I Study Guide
Key Terms to Know:
Domino Theory
Cuban Missile Crisis
Super Powers
Kristallnacht
Black Shirts
Gestapo
Flappers
Island Hopping
Key People to Know:
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Josef Stalin
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Stalingrad
Appeasement
Hiroshima
Blitzkrieg
Lend-Lease Act
Cold War
Satellite Nations
Hydrogen Bombs
Truman Doctine
Containment
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Vietnam War
Vietcong
New Deal
Russification
Surrealism
Dawes Plan
Nuremberg Laws
Spanish Civil War
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khruschev
Themes to Know/Consider:
1 - Be able to discuss the emerging global patterns: What conditions made WWII break out in Europe. Analyze the
emergence of Dictators in Major European Countries.
2 - Be able to discuss WWII: Some key battles & the Holocaust. What impact did the United States play in the
conflict?
3 - Be able to discuss the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War. Why & how did the Cold war world take
shape? What were some “hot” conflicts that manifested directly from the cold war world.
4 - LOOK OVER THE POTENTIAL TEST ESSAYS FROM CHAPTERS 16, 17 & 18. One of these three will be
your document-based essay question!