1.What Were Four MAIN Causes of Tension Europe Before World War I?
Chapter 29, Section 1
1.What were four MAIN causes of tension Europe before World War I?
2.Who were members of the Triple Alliance? Who were members of the Triple Entente?
3.What happened to Archduke Franz Ferdinand when he visited Serbia?
4.Was the description of the Balkans as the “powder keg” of Europe justified? Explain.
Chapter 29, Section 2
1.Who was a member of the Central Powers? The Allies?
2.How was war on the Western and Eastern Fronts different? How was it the same?
Chapter 29, Section 3
1.Why did the Russians make a separate peace with Germany?
2.What does it mean to wage a total war?
3.What were two results of World War I?
4.In what ways was World War I truly a global conflict?
5.Which of the non-European countries had the greatest impact on the war effort? Explain.
Chapter 29, Section 4
1.Who is the author of the Fourteen Points? What was their purpose?
2.Why did an observer call the Treaty of Versailles a "peace built on quicksand?"
3.How did the other countries treat Germany at the Paris peace conference?
4.Why might the European Allies have been more interested in punishing Germany than in creating a lasting peace?
Chapter 30, Section 1
1.Why were many Russians unhappy with Czar Nicholas II?
2.Who was the leader of the radical Bolsheviks? What did they want to accomplish?
4.Why was Lenin successful during and after the Bolshevik Revolution?
5.Why was there a civil war in Russia after 1917? Who was involved?
Chapter 31, Section 2
1.What cause the Great Depression?
2.How did the US deal with the Great Depression?
Chapter 31, Section 4
1.What territories did Japan invade?
2.What places did Germany and Italy invade?
3.What happened at the Munich Conference?
Chapter 32, Section 1
1.Why did Poland fall so quickly to the Germans?
2.Why did Germany fail to win the Battle of Britain?
3.What happened when Germany invaded the Soviet Union?
4.Name two ways in which the US supported the Allies.
Chapter 32, Section 2
1.How did the US respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
2.What countries lost territory to Japan early in the war?
3.Name three Allied victories against Japan.
Chapter 32, Section 3
1.How did the Holocaust begin?
2.How was the “Final Solution” carried out?
Chapter 32, Section 4
1.Name two events that led directly to Japan’s surrender.
Chapter 33, Section 1
1.What happened at the Yalta conference? Who attended?
2.Why did the Soviet Union want a “buffer zone” in Eastern Europe?
3.What is “the iron curtain?”
4.Explain how the USA tried to “contain” the spread of communism by explaining each:
(a) Truman Doctrine,
(b) Marshall Plan,
(c) Berlin Airlift,
(d) NATO?
5.How did the “brinksmanship” increase tensions during the Cold War?
Chapter 33, Section 3
1.How are the wars in Korea and Vietnam similar?
2.How did the domino theory change America’s relationship with other countries?
3.Why did the United States become involved with the Vietnam War?
4.Who won the Korean War? Who won the Vietnam War?
Chapter 33, Section 4
1.Why were Americans worried about Cuba’s communist revolution under Fidel Castro?
Chapter 33, Section 5
1.What does détente mean? Was this policy successful?