Final Review World History
WWI, Depression, WII, Cold War, China
Review Questions: Chapters 14.1-14.2 (pg433-445)
1. Who were the Bolsheviks and who were they led by?
2. How did Lenin reform Russia?
3. Who led Russia before the Revolution?
4. What led to the Russian Revolution and what issues did Russia have to deal with
5. What mistakes did the Provisional government make?
6. Who were the reds and the whites?
7. How did Lenin change or adapt Marxist ideas to fit with Russia?
Key Terms:
RUSSAIN REVOLUTION
Nicholas II
Marxist Communism
NEP
Bolsheviks
Dumas
Stalin
Protetariat
Rasputin
Totalitarianism
Lenin
Provisional Government Command economy
Cheka
Soviets
USSR
Review Questions: Chapter 13 pages 407-427 sections 1-4
1. What effects did trenches and new technology have on the war?
2. What event triggered WWI?
3. What were the MAIN causes of WWI?
4. Why did countries form alliances and how did they affect the war?
5. How did the Schlieffen plan fail? What was it?
6. Why did trenches create a stalemate?
7. Why does the United States join the war effort in Europe?
8. What role did women play in the war effort?
9. What conflicts arose at the Paris Peace Conference?
10. Who were the Big 4 and what did they settle on?
11. What was the goal of the 14 points
12. Why did the U.S. not join the league of Nations
13. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Europe?
Key Terms:
WWI
Triple alliance
Big Four (Big Three)
Triple entente
Winston Churchill
Central powers
Woodrow Wilson
Allies
Self determination
Trench warfare
New countries formed
Total war
Military restrictions
Armistice
War guilt clause
Fourteen points
Reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Submarine warfare
League of Nations
(U-Boats)
Great Purge
Police terror
Propaganda
Censorship
Western front
Eastern front
New technology
Schlieffen Plan
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Militarism
Nationalism
Imperialism
Propaganda
Rationing
Review Questions: Chapter 15 pages 470-485 sections 2-4
Chapter 16 pages 490-517 sections 1-5
1. What problems did Europe and the United States go through after WWI?
2. Which country was affected the most in Europe because of war debt?
3. How did the United States attempt to help Germany?
4. What events led the United States into the Great Depression?
5. What happened to Germany during the world depression?
6. How did Hitler use the events of the depression and the treaty of Versailles to gain power?
7. How did fascist values differ from democratic principles?
8. How did fascism differ from communism?
9. How did totalitarian states assert their power and control?
10. Who were the fascist leaders of European countries?
11. What events led to the beginning of WWII?
12. What policy was Great Britain following that allowed Hitler to continue on his path?
13. Why did Germany want to attack the Soviet Union?
14. How did the Allies slow Hitler’s occupation of Europe?
15. What were the turning points for the Allies?
16. Which countries fought in the Pacific?
17. What event brought the United States into WWII?
18. What was the U.S. island hopping strategy who was in charge of this idea?
19. How did WWII end?
Key Terms:
Depression
Unstable governments
Kellogg Briand pact
Coalition government
Stock market crash
Weimar republic
Great depression
Inflation
Flawed U.S. economy
Dawes plan
Global depression
WWII
Fascism
Benito Mussolini (IL Duce)
Hitler
Mein Kampf
Nazism
Lebensraum
Dictatorship
Hirohito
Appeasement
Axis powers
Francisco Franco
Third Reich
Munich Conference
Nonaggression Pact
Atlantic Charter
Austria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Lightening attack
Blitzkrieg
Charles de Gaulle
Erwin Rommel
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto
Island Hopping Strategy
Battle of Midway/Coral Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Ghettos
Final solution
Kristallnact
Popular front
New deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Work projects
Nuremburg laws
Concentration Camp
Death Camp
Auschwitz
Aryan
Genocide
D-Day
Normandy
Battle of the Bulge
Kamikaze
Atomic Bomb
Nuremburg Trials
Demilitarization in Japan
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Review Questions: Chapter 14 page 448-452 section 3
Chapter 17 page 531-557 sections 1-5
Chapter 18 section 4 page 583-589
Chapter 19 page 613-629 sections 3-5
Chapter 20 section 4 page 653-658
1. How did the Cold War become a global war?
2. What conflicts arose between the U.S. and Soviet Union?
3. What made the Cold war different from previous wars?
4. What was the purpose in forming the United Nations (UN)?
5. How did each super power take a stand in the cold war? What did each side pledge to do?
6. What were the goals of each super power?
7. What were the goals of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
8. When and where did the cold war get hot?
9. Why didn’t Russia want the occupied zones of Germany to be reunited?
10. What were the ways that the United States and the Soviet Union competed during the Cold war?
11. How did China change as a result of its Communist Revolution?
12. What role did the UN and China play in the conflict between the two Koreas?
13. What events led to the break down of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe
14. Which leaders were key figures during the Cold War?
15. How did the fall of Communism affect other communist countries?
16. What was the goal of the Cultural Revolution?
17. Why did the creation of Israel cause conflict?
18. What is significant about the Camp David Accords
19. What is the state of Israeli-Arab relations today?
20. What has caused most of the terrorist activity in Africa
21. How did September 11 attacks affect the way Americans looked at life?
22. How has aviation security increased (airports)
Key Terms:
Cold War
Postwar Plan
United Nations
Yalta Conference
Communism
Democracy
Satellite Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshal Plan
Berlin Airlift
Détente
Brinkmanship
U-2 incident
Sputnik
Arms race
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
Destalinization
SALT I
SALT II
Star wars
Politburo
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Democracy in Eastern Europe
Solidarity
Asia
Civil disobedience
Cast System
Nationalism
Communists
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Taiwan
People’s Republic of China
Great leap forward
Communes
Collectivization
Red Guards
Cultural Revolution
Boxer Rebellion
Kuomintang
Taiping Rebellion
Opium War
Sphere of influence
Open door policy
Five year Plan
Tiananmen Square
Four Modernizations
Hong Kong
Middle East
Balfour Declaration
Anwar Sadat
Golda Meir
Camp David Accords
Oslo Peace Accords
PLO
Yasir Arafat
Intifada
Six Day War
Suez Crisis
Terrorism
Cyberterrorism
Department of Homeland Security
USA Patriot Act
Germany reunification
Berlin Wall
Boris Yeltsin
Ethnic cleansing
Kennedy
Reagan
Korean War
Vietnam War
Domino theory
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamization
Vietcong
Khmer Rouge
Commonwealth of Independent States
Shock therapy
Reunification