Honors World History B - Spring

Final Exam Study Guide

Ch. 9.4, 13 - 16: WWI, WWII and the Rise of Totalitarianism (Standard 10.5, 10.6, 10.8, 10.9)

Ch. 8: WWI – The Great War

  1. WWI sparked by what event? (Archduke Ferdinand / Black Hand)
  2. Causes: MAIN
  3. What new types of weapons / warfare used?
  4. What brought the US into WWI?
  5. Treaty of Versailles / Article 231
  6. Woodrow Wilson – 14 Pts. (League of Nations)
  7. Schlieffen Plan
  8. concept of “total war” (WWI/WWII)
  9. Central Powers (members) vs. Allies (members)
  10. Western Front (trench warfare)

Ch. 5.1, 8.3, 9.2: Russian Revolution

  1. Lenin / Treaty of Brest Litovsk (peace, land, bread)
  2. leader of Bolsheviks / Lenin
  3. Stalin’s Five-Year Plans / totalitarian state

Ch. 7.2, 10.3, 16.1: Collapse of Chinese Imperialist Rule / People’s Republic of China

  1. What societal group most supported the Chinese Communists?
  2. Mao: goals of Cultural Rev – elimination of “Four Olds” (1966 – 76) / Long March / founding People’s Republic of China (1949) / Great Leap Forward (1958-61)
  3. Chinese Civil War 1946-49 (KMT vs. CCP)
  4. Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese Civil War; support base in Taiwan)
  5. Four Modernizations under Deng Xiaoping (1976)
  6. Tiananmen Square (1989)

Ch.9: The Years between the Wars (1920s-30s) / Rise of Fascism

  1. Japanese invasion Manchuria (1931) / Mukden Incident
  2. Munich Conference (1938) / appeasement
  3. Dawes Plan (1923)
  4. Great Depression (1929 – 1939)
  5. totalitarianism
  6. fascism
  7. Hitler / Nazi Party – Why were the Nazis able to rise to power? / Enabling Act (1933)
  8. Who signed the nonaggression pact in 1939? What was the secret part of the pact?

Ch. 11: WWII & the Holocaust

  1. Who were the Axis Powers?
  2. Blitzkrieg (1939)
  3. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
  4. Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)
  5. Pearl Harbor (1941)
  6. Who was Allied commander in N. Africa and Europe?
  7. Battle of Midway
  8. What Allied commander had the “island-hopping” strategy?
  9. What was D-Day?
  10. Where were A-bombs dropped?
  11. Why were Japanese-Americans interned?
  12. What were the Nuremberg Trials?
  13. What was the biggest Nazi death camp?
  14. What was the name of the German secret police?
  15. Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
  16. Dunkirk
  17. Kristallnacht (1938)
  18. einsatzgruppen
  19. Nuremberg Laws (1935)

Ch. 12, 13, 14, 15: The Post-War World – Cold War & the Middle East (Standard 10.4, 10.6, 10.9, 10.10)

Ch. 12-13: Cold War

  1. Creation of the UN
  2. Security Council permanent members
  3. UN Declaration of Human Rights prompted by what event?
  4. Division of Germany 1945 – controlled by what 4 nations?
  5. Berlin Wall
  6. NATO – Warsaw Pact
  7. Iron curtain / satellite nations – where were they?
  8. Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan – purpose of?
  9. Sputnik I / Space race
  10. Cuban Revolution (1959) / nationalization of industry & embargo (1960)
  11. Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
  12. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  13. Brezhnev Doctrine / Prague Spring (1968) / Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
  14. Détente (Nixon)
  15. Iranian hostage crisis (1979 – 1981) / Ayatollah Khomeini
  16. Gorbachev’s perestroika
  17. European Union
  18. U.S. Iraqi invasion 2003

Ch. 16.1, Korean War

  1. Divided at the ___ parallel
  2. How did China get involved in the K.W.?

Ch. 16.2, Vietnam War

  1. Vietcong – who?
  2. Why did US send ground troops to Vietnam in 1964?
  3. Vietnamization – goal of
  4. Kent State Massacre (1970)

Ch. 15.2: Modern Middle East

  1. Balfour Declaration (1917)
  2. PLO leader who won Nobel Peace Prize & began the intifada
  3. intifada

Map Section:

Nicaragua, Chile, Cuba, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Suez Canal, Czech Republic, Japan, China, Philippines, N. Korea, Vietnam

Fall Semester Broad-based Questions:

  1. Athens / polis
  2. Rome: Twelve Tables
  3. Constantine
  4. Magna Carta
  5. Reformation
  6. Renaissance
  7. separation of powers
  8. French Revolution: 3rd Estate, Declaration of Rts. Of Man, Reign of Terror
  9. nationalism
  10. San Martin / Bolivar
  11. Industrial Revolution – Britain
  12. Social Darwinism
  13. Gandhi

SHORT ESSAY:

Based on your study of world history, make an argument for the issue present in the world today that should be the primary concern of the United Nations. Use specific historical examples of international conflicts, violations of human rights, economic exchanges, technological developments and innovations, etc. to support your claims. Make sure to explain why your primary concern outweighs others and why this is an issue for the United Nations to address instead of individual countries, governments, non-governmental organizations, or individuals (i.e. why is it something only the UN can/should solve if it can be solved at all). Make specific connections between the past and current events.