SECOND SEMESTER FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
SECOND SEMESTER FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
MRS. KRNICH
WORLD HISTORY
Be familiar with the following terms and concepts for your final exam on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7TH/THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH/FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH. The Unit Eight notebook is due the same day.
Your exam will include information from only Unit Eight (WWII and the Holocaust: Ch. 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, and The Cold War: Chapter 17) in your textbook.
Parts of the following chapters from the entire second semester will be on the one-pager, which will start on Tuesday, June 6th:
13.1 Marching Towards War
entente ultimatum Triple Alliance
militarism mobilize Kaiser Wilhelm II
Alsace and Lorraine neutrality Triple Entente
Why did European nations form alliances?
Why might the Balkans be called ‘the powder keg of Europe’?
What role did geography play in the outbreak of WWI?
How did Austria’s government react to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
13.2 Europe Plunges into War
stalemate convoy Eastern Front Allies
zeppelin Dardanelles Central Powers trench warfare
U-Boat T.E. Lawrence Western Front
Why did a stalemate develop on the Western Front?
Describe three ways in which technology affected the war.
How did nationalism within the Ottoman empire come into play during the war?
13.3 A Global Conflict
total war atrocity unrestricted submarine warfare
conscription Fourteen Points total war
contraband self-determination rationing
Lusitania armistice propaganda
How did the Allies win WWI?
What measures did wartime governments take to control national enemies and public opinion?
What impact did wartime failures have on Russia?
Describe how the entry of the United States into the war was a turning point.
11.4 A Flawed Peace
pandemic collective security Woodrow Wilson
reparations mandate Georges Clemenceau
radicals Fourteen Points self-determination
Treaty of Versailles League of Nations
What factors influenced the peace treaties that ended WWI, and how did people react to the treaties?
Describe conditions in Europe after WWI.
How did the peace treaties both follow and violate the principle of self-determination?
14. 1 Revolutions in Russia
proletariat Bolsheviks Lenin Rasputin
provisional government soviet Communist Party Joseph Stalin
How did Alexander III rule?
What changes did industrialization cause?
What crises did Russia face?
What was the provisional government?
Who led the Bolshevik Revolution?
How did Lenin bring back order?
14.2 Stalinist Russia
totalitarianism Great Purge command economy Five-Year Plans
collective farm
What is totalitarianism?
How did Stalin control the country?
How did Stalin change the economy?
How did Stalin change Soviet society?
15.1 and 15.2 Postwar Uncertainty and A Worldwide Depression
Maginot Line finance Einstein
Kellogg-Briand Pact Federal Reserve theory of relativity
disarmament Great Depression Freud
general strike Franklin D. Roosevelt existentialism
overproduction New Deal Nietzsche
surrealism jazz Charles Lindbergh
coalition government Weimar Republic jazz
How did new thinkers challenge old ideas?
How did writers and philosophers of the 1920s reflect society’s concerns?
How was painting of this time different from traditional painting?
How did society change?
What new technology arose?
What problems did Europe face after the war?
How did various countries meet this crisis?
THE AREA BELOW WILL BE THE EXTRA CREDIT PORTION OF YOUR STUDY GUIDE TO BE TURNED IN UPON COMPLETION OF YOUR FINAL:
*15.3 Fascism Rises in Europe
Benito Mussolini totalitarian state Adolf Hitler
Black Shirts Fascism Nazism
March on Rome Mein Kampf lebensraum
15.4 Aggressors Invade Nations
Chancellor Gestapo appeasement
Ruhr Valley Nuremberg Laws Francisco Franco
Third Reich Munich Conference isolationism
16.1 Hitler’s Lightning War
Pacifism Anschluss nonaggression pact
Neutrality Acts Sudetenland blitzkrieg
Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Battle of Britain
Erwin Rammel Atlantic Charter Nazi-Soviet Pact
16.2 Japan’s Pacific Campaign
Isoroku Yamamoto Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway
Douglas MacArthur Battle of Guadalcanal
16.3 The Holocaust
Aryans concentration camps Kristallnacht
Luftwaffe Holocaust ghettos
Vichy Lend-Lease Act Final Solution
General Erwin Rommel genocide
16.4 The Allied Victory
Rosie the Riveter aircraft carrier Battle of the Bulge
Stalingrad D-Day kamikaze
Dwight Eisenhower Yalta Conference
16.5 Europe and Japan in Ruins
V-E Day island-hopping demilitarization Hiroshima democratization Manhattan Project Nagasaki
Questions to Consider:
Summarize the steps that Axis powers took to achieve world power prior to WWII.
How did the people of Britain fend off a German invasion?
How did Germany and Japan rule the people they conquered? How did this contribute to their hold on power?
How did government control of economic production help defeat Germany and Japan?
Summarize how the Allies defeated Germany.
What strategy did the Allies use to defeat Japan?
What conflicts emerged between the former Allies after the end of WWII?
What lessons does the Holocaust have for people today?
THE COLD WAR
17.1 Cold War: Superpowers Face Off
Nuremberg (Trials, NOT Laws) Marshall Plan
United Nations (UN) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Cold War Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine iron curtain
Containment brinkmanship
17.2 Communists Take Power in China
Mao Zedong Jiang Jieshi commune
Red Guards Cultural Revolution
17.3 Wars in Korea and Vietnam
Guerrillas Viet Cong 38th Parallel
Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive Vietnamization
Dienbienphu Khmer Rouge Ngo Dinh Diem
Domino theory Pol Pot
17.4 The Cold War Divides the World
Third World nonaligned nations Fidel Castro
Anastasio Somoza Daniel Ortega Ayatollah Khomeini
17.5 The Cold War Thaws
Superpowers John F. Kennedy
Anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) ideology
Richard Nixon Lyndon Johnson
SALT
Ronald Reagan Nikita Khrushchev
Détente Leonid Brezhnev
Fidel Castro containment
Mikhail Gorbachev Solidarity
Glasnost Vaclav Havel
Perestroika Nicolae Ceausescu
How did the Cold War develop in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the US?
What were the main features of the nuclear arms race?
How did political and economic life change during the Cold War years in the US?
What was the relationship between economic growth and trade in Western Europe and Japan?
How did the Korean War influence US relations with Communist China? How did those relations change as a result of hostility between China and the Soviet Union?
Why did the US enter the Vietnam War?
How did Gorbachev’s reforms lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union?
What events marked the end of the Cold War?
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