World History: Second Semester
Final Review Sheet
World History: Second Semester
Final Review Sheet
The Time Between the World Wars
The Time Between the World Wars
Key Terms & Concepts: March Revolution of 1917, Bolshevik Revolution of
1917, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, Pancho Villa, Mexican
Constitution of 1917, Amritsar Massacre, Great Salt March, apartheid, Balfour
Declaration, May Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang KaiShek), jazz, Salvador Dali, Easter Rising, Maginot Line, Nazi Party, Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf, Lebensraum, Nuremberg Laws, pogrom, Kristallnacht,
Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini, Communist Party, Joseph Stalin, Great Purge,
Five-Year Plans, Gulag
Key Terms & Concepts: March Revolution of 1917, Bolshevik Revolution of
1917, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, Pancho Villa, Mexican
Constitution of 1917, Amritsar Massacre, Great Salt March, apartheid, Balfour
Declaration, May Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang KaiShek), jazz, Salvador Dali, Easter Rising, Maginot Line, Nazi Party, Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf, Lebensraum, Nuremberg Laws, pogrom, Kristallnacht,
Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini, Communist Party, Joseph Stalin, Great Purge,
Five-Year Plans, Gulag
Other Keys:
 Characteristics & traits shared by totalitarian regimes of the 1930s
 How the power struggle in Mexico during the early 1900s affected its
government and its stability
 What Mohandas Gandhi wanted to obtain, and how he went about
obtaining it
 How westernization affected Turkey and Persia
 Two groups fighting in the Chinese Civil War, and why they took a hiatus
in the mid-1930s to 1940s
 Effects of the Long March on the Chinese Communists and the peasants
they encountered
 The way in which Ireland obtained independence
 Issues faced by the Weimar Republic after World War I and how it
attempted to address them
 Effects of the Great Depression worldwide (especially on Germany, Japan,
and newly-established democracies)
Other Keys:
 Characteristics & traits shared by totalitarian regimes of the 1930s
 How the power struggle in Mexico during the early 1900s affected its
government and its stability
 What Mohandas Gandhi wanted to obtain, and how he went about
obtaining it
 How westernization affected Turkey and Persia
 Two groups fighting in the Chinese Civil War, and why they took a hiatus
in the mid-1930s to 1940s
 Effects of the Long March on the Chinese Communists and the peasants
they encountered
 The way in which Ireland obtained independence
 Issues faced by the Weimar Republic after World War I and how it
attempted to address them
 Effects of the Great Depression worldwide (especially on Germany, Japan,
and newly-established democracies)
World War II
World War II
Key Terms & Concepts: appeasement, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact,
blitzkrieg, Luftwaffe, Maginot Line, Pearl Harbor, Battle of Britain, Battle of El
Alamein, Battle of Stalingrad, ghetto, concentration camp, Final Solution,
Bataan Death March, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Midway, Battle of
Leyte Gulf, kamikazes, island hopping, Manhattan Project, Nuremberg Trials,
United Nations
Key Terms & Concepts: appeasement, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact,
blitzkrieg, Luftwaffe, Maginot Line, Pearl Harbor, Battle of Britain, Battle of El
Alamein, Battle of Stalingrad, ghetto, concentration camp, Final Solution,
Bataan Death March, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Midway, Battle of
Leyte Gulf, kamikazes, island hopping, Manhattan Project, Nuremberg Trials,
United Nations
Other Keys:
 Relationship of Spanish Civil War to Germany and Italy
 Progression of German expansion before World War II
 How World War II officially began
 Major Allied and Axis nations
 Leaders of the Allied and Axis Powers
 Reasons for U.S. entry into World War II
 Goals of Operation Barbarossa, Operation Torch, & Operation Overlord
 Chronological order in which African and European nations were freed
from German control during World War II
 Sites of atomic bombings, and why the U.S. did not drop an atomic bomb
Tokyo
 Actions taken by Allies within Germany and Japan after World War II
(ex., war criminals, occupation)
 Five permanent member nations of the U.N. Security Council, and why
they were chosen
Other Keys:
 Relationship of Spanish Civil War to Germany and Italy
 Progression of German expansion before World War II
 How World War II officially began
 Major Allied and Axis nations
 Leaders of the Allied and Axis Powers
 Reasons for U.S. entry into World War II
 Goals of Operation Barbarossa, Operation Torch, & Operation Overlord
 Chronological order in which African and European nations were freed
from German control during World War II
 Sites of atomic bombings, and why the U.S. did not drop an atomic bomb
Tokyo
 Actions taken by Allies within Germany and Japan after World War II
(ex., war criminals, occupation)
 Five permanent member nations of the U.N. Security Council, and why
they were chosen
The Cold War Era
The Cold War Era
Key Terms & Concepts: Iron Curtain, Berlin Blockade & Airlift, Great Leap
Forward, Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, 38th parallel, Nikita Khrushchev,
Ho Chi Minh, Khmer Rouge, Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika
Key Terms & Concepts: Iron Curtain, Berlin Blockade & Airlift, Great Leap
Forward, Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, 38th parallel, Nikita Khrushchev,
Ho Chi Minh, Khmer Rouge, Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika
Other Keys:
 Initial purpose of NATO and Warsaw Pact
 How China fell to Communism, and its effects on that nation & the U.N.
 Reasons for U.N. and Chinese involvement in Korea
 Vietcong war tactics, and their effects on the war
 Highlights of the Korean War & Vietnam War—and how both relate to
the Cold War
Other Keys:
 Initial purpose of NATO and Warsaw Pact
 How China fell to Communism, and its effects on that nation & the U.N.
 Reasons for U.N. and Chinese involvement in Korea
 Vietcong war tactics, and their effects on the war
 Highlights of the Korean War & Vietnam War—and how both relate to
the Cold War