STUDY GUIDE: Ch. 29 The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

Define each term and explain why it is significant, including any important dates

  1. Joseph Stalin
  2. Five-Year Plans
  3. Benito Mussolini
  4. Fascist Party
  5. Adolf Hitler
  6. Nazi Party
  7. Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
  8. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)
  9. Long March
  10. Stalingrad
  11. El Alamein
  12. Pearl Harbor
  13. Battle of Midway
  14. Hiroshima
  15. Nagasaki
  16. Auschwitz
  17. Holocaust

29.1 (pages 828-840 )

  1. What does Stalin’s name mean?
  2. How did Stalin make himself absolute dictator of the Soviet Union?
  3. What was the aim of industrialization in the USSR?
  4. How did the 5 Year Plans resemble a nation at war?
  5. How did collectivization affect the peasantry? How did it affect the kulaks?
  6. How many farmers did the famine of 1933 & 1934 kill?
  7. What did the second 5 Year Plan focus on?
  8. What did Stalin establish to prevent resistance or rebellion during his reign?
  9. Why did Stalin purge the Communist party of “criminals” and arrest people of all walks of life? What was the effect of these government actions on the population?
  10. What effects did the stock market crash of 1929 have on the American economy?
  11. How did the Great Depression in the U.S. affect France, Britain, Germany, and Japan?
  12. How did the Great Depression affect Latin America and Asia?
  13. Who made up the fasci di combattimento in Italy?
  14. How was Mussolini able to come to power?
  15. What did the Fascists do when they came into power?
  16. Explain how modern mass communication was used by Mussolini.
  17. What was Adolf Hitler’s book called?
  18. What were Hitler’s basic beliefs, as explained in his writing?
  19. How did the Great Depression change the German population’s willingness to accept Hitler’s ideas?
  20. How did Hitler consolidate his power and begin treating the Jewish population within Germany?
  21. How was Germany economically and socially changed after Hitler became chancellor in 1933?
  22. What was Hitler’s goal on the road to war?
  23. How did appeasement embolden Hitler? Why were the European nations willing to appease him?
  24. What happened on September 1, 1939?

29.2 (pages 840-850)

25.  Which country did Japan focus on for its Asian empire?

26.  How did Japan react to the League of Nations?

27.  How did Japan’s economy change as it looked to conquer more land in Asia?

28.  What were Mao Zedong’s plans for China?

29.  How did he view the role of women?

30.  What did Guomindang do to the Communists and how did Mao and his followers respond?

31.  How did the Japanese treat the Chinese?

32.  How did Japan’s extension into other parts of Asia affect its own population?

33.  What did the Guomindang do when the Japanese conquered much of China?

34.  How did the Communists in China gain support from the peasantry?

35.  What did the German Wehrmacht use as its primary tactic?

36.  Which areas did Hitler conquer by 1940?

37.  Who was the prime minister of Britain during WWII?

38.  Why did the Germans fail to conquer Britain?

39.  How did the USSR cooperate with Germany before June of 1941? What happened afterwards?

40.  Why did the German advance into the USSR ultimately fail?

41.  What opportunities did Japan recognize once the Europeans were engaged in fighting?

42.  What was the rationale for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

43.  What date will “live in infamy”?

44.  Which countries comprised the Allies? Which comprised the Axis powers?

45.  What happened on June 6, 1944?

46.  What happened on May 7, 1945?

47.  What did the Japanese call its occupation of East Asia?

48.  What happened on August 6 & 9, 1945?

49.  What did Chiang Kai Shek do with aid the Guomindang received from the U.S.?

50.  How did the Guomindang lose the support of the Chinese population?

51.  Where did the high-ranking officers of the Guomindang retreat to in 1949?

52.  What did Mao Zedong announce on October 1, 1949?

29.3 (pages 850-856)

53.  Approximately how many people were killed in WWII?

54.  How did science aircraft technology in WWII?

55.  Why were civilian populations targeted for bombing raids by both the Axis and the Allies?

56.  What was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?

57.  In addition to those killed in the Holocaust, who was included in the mass exterminations by the Nazis during WWII?

58.  How did WWII transform the economy of the United States? How were women and minorities affected?

59.  What was a key factor in the environmental stress of WWII?

60.  What happened within 15 years of the end of WWII?