WWI
Understand:
· MAIN reasons for the war???? How does the war start?
· People and Concepts
o Archduke Franz Ferdinand
o Von Schlieffen Plan/Significance of Belgium
o New Weapons
o Western Front and Eastern Front
o Trench Warfare
o No man’s land
o Zimmerman Telegram
o Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
o League of Nations
o Versailles Treaty
o War guilt clause
o Purpose of propaganda
o Ottoman Empire in WWI
· Vocab
o Mobilize
o Ultimatum
o Reparations
o Stalemate
o Armistice
Russian Revolution
· People and Concepts
o Stalin vs Trotsky
o Russia’s major occupation in the 1800’s:
o Russia’s winter in 1917
o 5 Year Plans
o Agricultural Revolution/Collectivization
Shifts in Power
People and Concepts
o Gandhi and his philosophy
o Passive Resistance
o Boycott
o Civil Disobedience
o Amritsar massacre
o Salt March
o Two major religious groups in India/Creation of India and Pakistan 1948
o Chiang Kai Shek and nationalists
o Mao and the Communists
o The Long March
o Japanese Invasion of China
Between the Wars
· What was post WWI Europe like? Who were the new powerhouses?
People and Concepts
o Hyperinflation
o Weimar Republic and instability of new democracies in Europe
o Stock market crash
o Great Depression
o Overproduction and under consumption
o Fascism: Mussolini/Il Duce
o Hitler
o Nuremberg Laws of 1935
o Kristallnacht
o Nazism
o Anti-Semitism
o Rhineland
o Sudetenland
o Appeasement/Neville Chamberlain
o Allies and Axis Powers
WWII
People and Concepts
o Nonaggression pact
o Pearl Harbor
o Stalin
o Emperor Hirohito
o North African Campaign and Suez Canal
o Operation Torch
o Stalingrad
o Battle of Britain
o Invasion of Poland/Blitzkreig
o Theaters of War – What are the main three?
o Operation Overlord/D-Day
o V-E Day
o Germany’s surrender
o Kamikaze
o Island hopping
o Dropping the atomic bombs: Why? Where?
o Japanese Internment Camps
o Genocide
· Rape of Nanking
· Holocaust
· Concentration/death camps
· Mengele
· Cold War
Essential Questions:
ü How did the resolution of WWII lead to the cold war?
ü How did the policies of the two superpowers dictate foreign policy?
Key Terms and Concepts
o Superpowers
o Arms Race
o Space Race
o Sputnik
o Berlin Airlift
o Berlin Wall
o Cuban Missile Crisis
o Warsaw Pact vs. NATO
o Marshall Plan
o East vs. West Europe
o Buffer Zone
o Iron Curtain
o Satellite nations
o United Nations
o Nuremburg Trials
o Communist nations during the Cold War
o Fall of Berlin Wall
o Fall of Communism throughout Europe
· Asia:
ü Life under communism in Asia
· Korea: Korean War and Modern North Korea
· Vietnam
· Cambodia
· KEY TERMS/KEY PEOPLE:
§ Containment
§ Collectivization
§ Mao Zedong
§ Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution
§ Vietnam War
§ Ho Chi Minh
§ Tiananmen Square
§ Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge
· Africa
o End of Imperialism in Africa
o Apartheid what was it and what impact did it have?
o Genocides:
· Rwanda-Hutus vs. Tutsis
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Maps: There are three maps on the Final Exam.
1. Cold War Europe
2. Cold War Asia
3. Global Map-Map of the 7 continents
Directions: Label the countries for the Cold War Europe and Asia Map. Label the continents for the Map of the World.
Cold War Europe
Cold War Asia
Map of the World