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Grade 10 Final Exam Study Guide
RUSSIA 1905-1953
Unit question:
1. Was the Russian Revolution progressive or regressive?
Supporting Essential questions:
1. What were the primary short-term and long-term causes of the 1905 Russian
Revolution?
2. How successful was Krensky’s Provisional Government?
3. Based on his policies, was Lenin more conservative or liberal in the period 19171924?
4. Did life improve for women under the Soviet Union?
5. Did Stalin help to bring socialism to the Soviet Union?
6. The purges were very destructive for the Soviet Union. Why did Stalin order the
purges?
Week 1: The 1905 Revolution
January 14-18
Focus Questions:
Who were the radicals of the Russian Revolution? Okhrana activity
How has Russian geography influenced Russian history? Map activity
What were the primary short-term and long-term causes of the 1905 Russian Revolution?
Lynch: Opponents to Czardom p 18-27
Lynch: The 1905 Revolution p 32-40
Divine right monarchy—The king or queen was chosen by God.
Autocrat—This is a form of government in which one person rules without needing to
share decisions with others.
Tsar/Czar/Csar—Russian term for monarch. It is a form of the word Caesar. Tsar Nicolas
II—The last of the Romanov Dynasty rulers in Russia. He abdicated in March 1917.
Tsarina Alexandra—The Tsar’s wife who died in the revolution.
Edict of Emancipation: Serfs were legally freed in 1861 but were not given land
immediately, so many continued to be very poor.
Social Revolutionary Party (SRs)—Believed that peasants were most important and that
land should be redistributed from large landlords to small farmers.
St Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad—City in northern Russia that was originally built by
Peter the Great. The city’s name was changed to Petrograd during World War I. After
Lenin’s death, the city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet period. Today it is St.
Petersburg.
Coup d’etat—(French) to overthrow the government and seize power
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Duma—Russian parliament or legislature Soviet- elected representative body based on
factories, military units, farms, and other local areas. The soviets rule locally and send
representatives to the central government. In theory it is a republican form of
government. Provisional government
Iskra: (The Spark) the first Communist, and illegal, newspaper in Russia. Printed in
Europe and smuggled into Russia. Lenin was one of six editors that sat on the newspapers
board after 1901
What is to be Done? Lenin’s pamphlet in which he calls for a small, elite party leadership
as opposed to broad, popular membership with voting rights.
October Manifesto—The Czar agreed to elections and to share power with the Duma, or
parliament.
Gregory Rasputin—Russian monk and advisor to the Tsarina. Peter Stolypin—Russian
Prime Minister who attempted reforms to strengthen the monarchy Kulaks—wealthier
peasants in a class created by the Stolypin to encourage more support of the
government’s policies Plough—This is used in farming to cut the soil in the spring so that
seeds can be planted. It would usually have been pulled by one or two horses while the
farmer walks behind to steer.
Social Democratic Party (SDs)—Believed that factory workers should start a revolution
in Russia to end the empire. They follow the writings of German philosopher Karl Marx.
Bolsheviks—Majority segment of the SDs when the SDs split in 1903. Bolsheviks wanted
a small, elite group of revolutionaries to lead the Russian workers against the Czar.
Mensheviks—Minority segment of the SDs when the SDs split in 1903. Mensheviks
wanted their political party to be open to everyone.
Cossack—A person from a semi-nomadic tribe in Russia. Some Cossacks served as
guards to the czar.
Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin) —Bolshevik leader and first leader of the USSR RussoJapanese War—1904-1905 war in which the Japanese defeat a major European power for
the first time. The Japanese victory gives confidence to the Japanese government and
encourages doubt amongst Russians.
Kadet Party—Those who wanted to keep the monarchy but create a legislature to work
with it. Similar to a constitutional monarchy today.
Bloody Sunday—22 January 1905 ordinary Russians attempt to present a petition to the
Tsar but are attacked but soldiers.
Black Hundreds—unofficial groups that formed to resist the 1905 revolution by attacking
Jews and revolutionaries. Black Hundreds supported the Czar.
Civil service—The part of the government that performs the daily tasks of government.
Also called the bureaucracy, because it is often divided into bureaus (Federal Bureau of
Investigation or FBI in the US) or offices. The civil service does not create laws like the
legislature but carries out the laws.
Secret police—government agents who are domestic spies, make arrests, and generally
spread fear among citizens to help the government maintain control. Aristocrats—Rule
by the aristocracy or nobles. These are people who have their influence in government
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and income from having inherited titles and lands of nobility from their ancestors, like
dukes, barons, and counts.
Peasants—These are usually poor farmers who may or may not own their own land and
equipment.
Serfdom—A form of slavery in which the people may or may not be directly owned by
the lord or noble, but they are legally tied to the land and can be transferred if the land is
sold to another lord or noble. Russian serfs are legally freed in the 19c but many continue
to live in very poor conditions.
Karl Marx—He was a German political theorist who tried to explain how history was
affected by economic change.
Marxism—This is a theory that states that all of history can be understood as conflicts
between different economic groups. Marxism predicts that the final conflict will lead to a
society where everyone is economically equal. Also, every country and government is
directly shaped by the type of economic system (feudalism, capitalism, etc) that it has.
Okhrana—Russian secret police during the empire.
Capitalists/bourgeoisie—People who own large businesses or who are professionals for
an occupation. They were not the aristocracy nor the proletariat.
Proletariat-These are workers, usually those in the cities instead of farmers.
Das Kapital/Capital: Marx’s book in which he explains his theories and predicts a
communist or classless society.
Suprerstructure: Marx believed that the government system of every nation was the basis
of its art, culture, religion, education, and other systems.
Class: a group of people who share the same economic level in society
Marx: German philosopher and writer
Engels: Marx’s co-author
Dictatorship of the proletariat: the stage predicted after the revolution overthrows the
bourgeoisie
Classless society: final predicted stage; no single group controls the means of
production, after which the state, or government, would no longer be needed so it would
wither away
Pravda (Truth) Russian Communist Party newspaper 1912-1991
Liberals: those who advocated constitutional reform and political liberty for Russia; one
branch of this movement became the Union of Liberation; this group preceded the
Constitutional Monarchists or Kadets
Social Revolutionaries: a political party that called for land reform and was supported by
the Russian peasants
Russian Social Democrats: those who advocate a Marxist approach; this group split into
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
Bloody Sunday and historiography
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The political spectrum
Week Two: Lenin’s 1917 Revolution
January 21-25
Focus Question:
Was the Russian Revolution more progressive or regressive?
Lynch: The Red Terror p. 145-151
Lynch: War Communism p. 151-155
Lynch: The New Economic Policy p 160-162
Lynch: The Shaping of Soviet Society…p. 166-170 (174-175)
Lynch: The Power Struggle… p. 187-193
Vocabulary for this week
Battleship Aurora
Winter Palace
Red Terror
War Communism
Red Guards
Red Army
New Economic Policy (NEP)
NEPmen
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR)
Cheka
Kulaks
Kronstadt Rising, 1921
Petrograd
Kronstadt Manifesto
"On Party Unity"
Bukharin
"Decree on the Separation of Church and
State”
Scissors Crisis
Marxism-Leninism
Political commissars
Leon Trotsky
Trans-Siberian Railway
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February Revolution 1917
Barracks—housing for soldiers Arsenal—A government storehouse for weapons and
ammunition
Alexander Kerensky—He was a Russian Duma member and minister who led the
Provisional Government February 1917-. He was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
Petrograd Soviet—Council government for Petrograd. Members were workers and
soldiers after February 1917. It competed with the Provisional Government for control fo
the country, the army.
Order Number One—The Petrograd Soviet declared that the army’s loyalty was to the
Petrograd Soviet and not the Provisional Government and that when orders from the
Soviet and the Provisional Government disagreed, the Soviet’s order was final.
April Theses (1917)—Lenin’s announced plan to end the Russian war with Germany,
government takeover of banks and factories, and new Russian government based on the
soviets
“Peace, Bread, Land”—Lenin’s slogan in 1917. Peace –end of Russian participation in
World War I, Bread-food to workers and peasants, land—land ownership for the peasants
“All power to the soviets.”
Petrograd/St. Petersburg—city in northern Russia built by Peter the Great. Petrograd or
St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia until 1918.
Intuition—your feelings or instincts about something or someone, not based on reason.
Kronstadt-Russian city on the Baltic Sea and location of several rebellions
Leon Trotsky—He was one of the key leaders of the Bolsheviks and who reorganized the
imperial army into the more effective Red Army. He was later be assassinated in Mexico
by agents sent by Stalin.
July Days—Bolsheviks attempt to seize power for the first time in 1917 in Petrograd. The
attempt fails and the Provisional Government charges the Bolshevik leaders with treason.
Lenin and other leaders must go into hiding or face arrest and execution.
Kornilov—Russian general who planned to seize power from the Provisional
Government in September 1917.
Commander-in-chief—This is the highest military officer in a country.
October Revolution 1917—Bolsheviks led a coup against the Provisional Government
General staff—Top army officers who direct and plan a war.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918—Russian treaty with Germany. Russia would withdraw
from World War I. In exchange, Russia gave up Finland and territories in Eastern
Europe.
Cheka—Secret police under Lenin and the Communist Party
White Army—In the Russian Civil War 1918-1921, the Whites were against the
Communists. They were a mix of SRs, Menshiks, Kadets, and Czarists.
Red Army—In the Russian Civil War, the Reds supported the Communist Party.
Red Terror—The arrests and executions of people suspected of being anti-Communist
(Whites), 1918-1922.
Rubles—Russian money like Yen or Euros
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War Communism—the economic policy during the Civil War
Comrade—A form of address that suggests social equality.
Red Guards—a force of dedicated Bolshevik soldiers and workers who are armed
New Economic Policy (NEP)—Lenin ended War Communism in 1921 because the
economy had collapsed and there was starvation. Under NEP, individuals could freely
grow crops, for example, and sell them to make a profit.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)—Russia under the Communists from
1924-1991.
Week Three: Stalin’s Rule in the 1920s, Stalin’s Terror State
January 28-February 1
Focus Questions:
Did Stalin’s policies benefit the people of the Soviet Union?
Why did Stalin order the purges?
Lynch: Collectivization 200-209
Lynch: Industrialization 210-214
Lynch: The Great Purges 230-238
Vocabulary
First Five Year Plan(1928-1932)
Kolkhoz collective farm
“Twenty-“five-thousanders”
“Dizzy with Success” 1930
Sovkhozes Soviet state farms in which the land is owned by the government but worked
by people
Second Five Year Plan (1933-1937)
Stakhanovite movement 1935
Totalitarianism—a government that attempts to control all aspects of a person’s life using
new technologies like radio, newspapers, books, music, and film
Revolution from above—the government would hand down changes to the people.
Five-Year Plans—Stalin’s industrial production targets that were meant to speed up the
industrialization, and defense, of the Soviet Union
Collectivisation-farmers would have to surrender their land and equipment to community
farms
OGPU—The secret police under Stalin. OGPU replaced Cheka.
Dekulakization—Stalin’s policy of breaking the kulak class that might resist his
collectivization drive.
Three Show trials 1936-38
Week Four: Stalin’s Rule in the 1920s, Stalin’s Terror State (Continued)
January 28-February 1
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Focus Question:
Did life improve for women under the Soviet Union?
Unit 4: Germany: 1919 to 1940 Unit Syllabus
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Readings from: Layton, Geoff. Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-1963
Week
Topics
Treaty of Versailles
Pg. 26-33
What were the motives of the leaders at the
Treaty of Versailles negotiations?
--TOV Simulation
Week One
October 29November 2
The Great Inflation
p. 47-54, 56-58
Does inflation hurt everyone? Does deflation
(depression, recession) hurt everyone?
--Inflation Simulation
How did the French try to make themselves
more secure against Germany in the 1920s and
1930s? DBQ
The Thursday quiz will be on Week One
readings.
The Decline of Weimar and Rise of Nazism,
1919-1932
p.71-78, 102-109, 119-121
Week Two
November 5November 9
Why did the Weimar Republic collapse:
agency or structure?
Political spectrum activity
Note: The Thursday quiz will be on Week Two
readings.
Creation of a Nazi Mass Movement, p. 124135
Quiz or Test
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The Great Depression
Week Three
What are the characteristics of fascism?
November 12November 16
The Nazi Legal Revolution, 1932-1934, p.
140-156
Did Germany experience a revolution?
Note: The Thursday quiz will be on Week
Three readings.
The Racial State, 219-231
What was the Holocaust?
Week Four
November 19November 23
November 27
November 28-30
What were the most important anti-Jewish
laws?
Unit Project Due Tuesday, November 20
Note: Thursday is a school holiday. No quiz
this week.
Unit Multiple Choice (MC) and Essay Test
Begin Unit 3
In addition to these assignments, we will be discussing the essential questions of the unit
either as a class, in small groups, using simulations, or on-line as resources become
available.
Key unit question: Was the period 1920-1939 in Europe a time of hope or despair?
Unit Vocabulary
Note: The underlined vocabulary are in the Treaty of Versailles reading.
Week One:
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Treat of Versailles, 1919
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Annexation
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Total War
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Disarmament
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Buffer state
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Saar
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Self-determination
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Alsace
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Anschluss
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Lorraine
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Diktat
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Silesia
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Passive resistance
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Weimar Republic
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French occupy Ruhr, 1923
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Hyper-inflation
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War bonds
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Civil servants
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Balanced budget
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Beer Hall or Munich Putsch 1923
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Hard currency
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Kapp Putsch
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Reparations
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Ruhr Valley
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Gustav Streseman
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Article 231, Treaty of Versailles
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War Guilt Clause
Week Two:
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Seigfried
Treaty of Locarno 1925
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Treaty of Berlin
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Rapallo Treaty
Dawes Plan 1924
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Great Depression
Demilitarized
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New York Stock Exchange
Arbitration (treaty)
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Wall Street Crash
Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
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Article 48, Weimar Consitution
League of Nations
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Reichstag
Young Plan
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1930 Reichstag Elections
Week Three:
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Chancellor
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Social Democrats
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Mein Kampf
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Kampfbund
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Fascism
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Proportional representation
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Schutzstaffel (SS, Blackshirts)
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Freikorps
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National Socialist German
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Coalition government
Workers’ Party (NSDAP) (Nazi
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Sturmabteilung (Stormtroopers,
Party)
SA, or Brownshirts)
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Politics of Anxiety
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Ernst Rohm
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Canvassing
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Stennes Revolt
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Mittelstand
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Volkspartei
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Joseph Goebbels
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Propaganda
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Mass Suggestion
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Fuhrer Cult
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Volksgemeinschaft
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Nationalism
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Anti-Semitism
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November (1918) Criminals
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Reichstag Fire
Week Four
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Paul von Hindenberg
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Enabling Law
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Coup
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Illiberal Democracy
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Herman Goering
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Totalitarianism
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Election of 1933
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Concentration camps
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“Appeal to the German People”
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Four Year Plan 1933-1937
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Junkers
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Hitler Youth
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Legal Revolution 1933
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League of German Girls
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People’s Militia
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Adolph Hitler Schools
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Night of Long Knives
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German Labor Front
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Himmler
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Lebensraum
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Law for the Protection of
Week Five
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Holocaust
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Genocide
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Gradualist
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Boycott
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Nuremberg Laws 1935
German Blood and Honor
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Gypsies
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Kristallnacht
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Émigré
Jewish Ghettos
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Final Solution
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Auschwitz
Warsaw Ghetto
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Birkenau
Japan: Tokugawa to Pearl Harbor: 1853-1945
In this unit we will learn about the people and events that caused Japan to move from a feudal
system under the Shogunate toward modernization under the Meiji Emperor. We will then
follow the story as Japan rises from World War II surrender.
November 27-November 30
Readings (please complete SQ3R for each chapter):
Ch 6 Japanese Isolation
Ch 7 Commodore Perry Visits Japan
Tokugawa weaknesses
Ch 8 Fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Harris Treaty or Treaty of Edo
Ch 9 Emperor Meiji and the Charter Oath or Imperial Oath of Five Articles
Should the Shogun have ended isolation in 1853-54? Decision-making activity
What were the problems that plagued the Shogunate by 1868?
December 3-7
Ch 10 Building a Modern Economy
Ch 11 Social Change and the West
Ch 13 Sino-Japanese War
Ch 14 Russo-Japanese War
Ch 15 Effects of the Meiji Restoration
How did Japanese society become more militaristic and how did Japanese respond? Document
Question
Was the Meiji Restoration a revolution in the original sense (to restore) or modern sense (dramatic
transition to a new government)?
Where would Saigo appear on the political spectrum?
What was life like for women during the Meiji Restoration? Document Question
December 10-14
Ch 16 The Twenty-One Demands
Ch 17 Impact of the First World War
Ch 19 The Manchurian Incident
Ch 21 Japan Invades China
Ch 22 Pearl Harbor
Does Japan have a fascist government in the 1920s and 1930s?
Japanese Historiography
GRADE: 10
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COURSE: 20c History: Japan
January 8-11
Unit Test January 10 (Thursday)
Chapters 6-15 Vocabulary
1.
2.
3.
4.
Shinto
Shogun
Emperor
Samurai
5. Zaibatsu
6. Commodore Mathew Perry
7. Black Ships
8. Kanagawa Treaty 1854
9. Saigo Takamori
10. Kido Takayoshi
11. Okubo Toshimichi
12. Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji)
13. Treaty of Edo or Harris Treaty 1858
14. Unequal Treaties
15. Ito Hirofumi
16. Genro
17. Sino-Japanese War 1895
18. Meiji Restoration
19. Rescript on Education 1890
20. Constitution of 1868
21. Dajokan or Council of Seven
22. Treaty of Shimonoseki 1895
23. Constitution of the Empire of Japan
1889
24. Satsuma Rebellion 1877
25. Russo-Japanese War 1905
26. Satsuma, Choshu
27. Tosa-Hizen alliance
28. Charter Oath 1868
29. Manchuria
30. Hatori Edict
31. Sonno joi (Revere the emperor,
expel the barbarians)
32. Wakonyosai (Japanese spirit,
Western learning)
33. Fukoku Kyohei (Rich country, strong
army)
34. Russo-Japanese War
35. Treaty of Portsmouth
36. Taisho
Chapter 17-22 Vocabulary
Twenty-One Demands
Yuan Shi-kai
Great Tokyo or Kanto Earthquake
Hirohito
Manchrian Incident, 1931
Manchukuo and Pu Yi
May 1932 Incident
Kodo-Ha
Tosei-Ha
Showa Restoration
Sonno tokan
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing, 1937
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
French Indo-China
Tripartite Pact
Pearl Harbor
Class Readings
Miocevich, Grant. Investigating Japan: Prehistory to Post-war Reconstruction.
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UNIT 5: CHINA, 1842-1989
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Focus Questions and Readings
Dates
Topic 1
April 1-April 5
Topic 2
April 8-April 12
Were the Opium Wars about the opium trade? DBQ
What were the Qing Dynasty’s problems by 1905?
How could the Qing Dynasty have been saved in 1905? DBQ
Were the Boxers in China like the Bolsheviks in Russia?
Brooman Ch 1, 2
Macdonald 2, 3, 4
Was the Long March a success?
Brooman 5, 6
Macdonald 10
Did life for women improve under the Chinese Communist Party
compared to the empire? DBQ
Brooman 11
Macdonald 11, 12
Brooman 10
Macdonald 13, 14
Did Mao win the civil war or did Jiang lose?
Who was Mao? Synthesis question
Republic of China in Taiwan
Topic 3
How great was the Great Leap Forward?
April 15-April 19 Tibet
Mao and the Korean War
Growing Sino-Russian Rivalry
Brooman 13, 14, 15
Macdonald 15, 17, 18
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Topic 4
Was the Cultural Revolution radical?
Brooman 17
April 23–April 26 Macdonald 20, 21
China and the Revolution Model
China Unit Test on Thursday
Assignments:
Weekly reading quizzes on Thursdays (on topic of the same week)
Unit MC Test
Unit FRQ Test
Unit Project TBA
In-class essay
China Unit Vocabulary (More terms will be added during the unit).
Imperial China
Son of Heaven, Ruler of the World
Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
Manchus
Emperor Puyi
Qing Dynasty
Mandarins
Forbidden City
Opium Wars
Porcelain
Convention of Beijing (Peiking)
Opium
Treaty of Tientsin (Tiensin) 1858
First Opium War 1839-42
Unequal Treaties
Treaty of Nanjing 1842
Most Favored Nation status
Second Opium War 1856-60
Could the Manchus have been saved?
Double Tenth (October 10)
Empress Dowager Cixi
Import duties
Boxer Rebellion 1900
Emperor Guangxu
Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
Hundred Days Reform
1912 Revolution
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Warlords
Three Principles of the People
Qingdao
Republic of China
21 Demands
General Yuan Shikai
China and the Versailles Treaty 1919
Guomindang or National People’s Party
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1912 Revolution and the Nationalist Government
Fourth of May Movement (5/4)
Chiang Kaishek/ Jiang Kaishek
Communist Party of China
Northern Expedition 1926
General Zhu De
Red Army
Guerilla warfare/tactics
Six Principles of the Red Army
Extermination Campaigns
Jiangxi Soviet
North Shaanxi
Southern Jiangxi Soviet
Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist Party
Peasant associations
First United Front (1923-1927)
Manchuria
Mao and the Long March
Collective farming
Chinese Soviet Republic (1931)
Japanese Invasion
Kidnapping of Jiang Kaishek
Lin Biao
Zhou Enlai
The Hundred Regiments
Second United Front (1936-1939)
Offensive/Battle
Marco Polo Bridge 1937
The Three-Alls Campaign
Shanghai 1937
Pearl Harbor
Nanjing 1937
Burma Road
Scorched earth policy
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Shenyang 1946
Inflation
Communists Win the Civil War
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
Agrarian Reform Law
Republic of China (ROC)
Five Year Plan (1953-1957)
Reactionaries
Zhou En-Lai
Land to the Tiller
Co-operatives
People’s Courts
Republic of China on Taiwan
Tibet
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Mao and the Korean War
Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan)
The Hundred Flowers
Communes
Growing USSSR-PRC Rivalry
Red Guards
Four Olds
Cultural Revolution
Little Red Book
President Richard M. Nixon
Cultural Revolution
1964 atomic test
Go down to the country
Lin Biao
Deng Xioaping
End of the Cultural Revolution
Jiang Qing
Gang of Four
Four Modernizations
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Unit vocabulary
Unit 8: The Cold War, 1945-1991
2012-2013 FINAL
Topic 1: The Cold War Begins: 1945-1989
Topic 2: The First Cold War: 1950-1962
April 29-May 30
Focus questions:
How did each country contribute to Cold War tensions?
Why did Stalin end the Berlin Blockade?
Based on available evidence, how did the Korean War begin?
Chapter 1The Second World War Ends
Chapter 2 The USSR and Poland
Chapter 4 The Truman Doctrine
Chapter 5 The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949
Chapter 9 War in Korea 1950-1953
Topic 3: Détente: 1969-1985
May 7-10
How was the Cold War being fought?
Where was the Cold War being fought? Where was there relative peace?
If there were such a thing as “Spirit of Détent,” how would you have described it?
Was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 a Soviet victory?
To what extent was the United States justified in entering the war against North Vietnam?
Analyze how the Cuban Missile Crisis contributed to the era of Détente.
Chapter 6: Peaceful Coexistence
Chapter 7 The Berlin Wall 1961
Chapter 10 Cuba 1962
Chapter 8 Czechoslovakia 1968
Chapter 11 Vietnam
Chapter 12 Détente 1969
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Topic 4: The Second Cold War: 1979-1985
Topic 5: The Second Détente
End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
May 13-17
Were the first and second Cold Wars more similar or different?
Mikail Gorbachev called for “glasnost, perestroika, and demokratizatsiya” what did he
mean? What did people hear?
Compare the Russian Revolution (1917) with the end of the USSR (1991)?
Analyze the main factors that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union, 1953-1991.
Chapter 13 Afghanistan
Chapter 15 The Soviet Economy in Crisis
Chapter 16 Poland
Chapter 17 The End of European Communism 1989-1991
Final Exam Review
In-class
May 20-28
Cold War Unit Vocabulary
Topic 1: The Cold War Begins: 1945-1949
Iron Curtain
Big Three leaders
Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Harry Truman (r. 19451953)
Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey
Berlin Airlift
Division of Berlin
Division of Germany
Yalta Conference
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Topic 2: The First Cold War: 1950-1962
Tito
Yugoslavia
Federal Republic of
Germany
German Democratic
Republic
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
Warsaw Pact
Guerrilla war
Buffer zone
Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA)
U-2 Plane
Nikita Khrushchev
Détente
Peaceful Coexistence
De-Stalinization
Intercontinental Ballistic
Missile (ICBM)
Sputnik I
Dwight Eisenhower
Hungary, Poland 1956
Suez Crisis 1956
Imre Nagy
Berlin Wall 1961
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
DPRK
ROK
Korean War 1950-1953
Containment
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Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD)
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
President John F.
Kennedy
Topic 3: Détente: 1969-1985
Czechoslovakia 1968
Satellite state
Alexander Dubcek
Prague Spring
President Lyndon B.
Johnson
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Viet Minh
Henry Kissinger
Peace with Honor
Helsinki Agreement
National Liberation
Front (NLF)
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam War 1954-1975
Domino Theory
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nixon visits China
Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
(SALT I and II)
Antiballistic Missile
(ABM) Treaty
Topic 4: The Second Cold War: 1979-1985
Topic 5: The Second Détente and End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
May 19-25
Afghanistan 1979-1989
Olympics Boycotts,
1980, 1984
Mujaheddin
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Strategic Arms
Reduction Talks
(START)
Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI)
Glasnost
Perestroika
Demokratizatsiya
Poland and Solidarity
Pope John Paul II
Berlin Wall torn down
Revolutions of 1989
Soviet Union ends 1991
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