Euro Studies – 2nd Semester
Study Guide
World War I:
· Long Term Causes (M.A.I.N.)
· Triple Alliance
· Triple Entente
· Beginning of the War
o Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia
o Franz Ferdinand; Princip; Black Hand
o blame; ultimatums; declarations of war
· Russian involvement
· Schlieffen Plan
· Central Powers
· Allied Powers
· Western Front
o Battle of the Marne (1st and 2nd battles here, significance)
o Trench warfare
o Weapons/inventions
o Somme/Verdun (examples of war of attrition, western front)
· Eastern Front
o Battle of Tannenberg (significance)
· Similarities/Differences with Western Front
· Gallipoli—Who? Why? What happens? ANZAC
· Submarine warfare—blockade of England/Germany (impact on economy, see film notes)
· U.S. Enters the War
o Lusitania—see film notes
o Zimmermann Telegram
o Popular consensus (why did the US join the allies)
· War on the Home Front
o Total War
o Rationing
o Propaganda
o Role of Women
· Withdrawal of Russia
· Why was Russia struggling?
· Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918)
· End of the War
o Armistice
o Wilson’s Fourteen Points (Just the big ones we talked about in class)
o Treaty of Versailles
o League of Nations
· Dates to know:
o November 11, 1918
Russian Revolution:
· Proletariat & Bourgeoisie
· Czar Alexander II
· Czar Alexander III
· Czar Nicholas II
· Vladimir Lenin*
· Bolsheviks
· Mensheviks
· Red Army
· White Army
· Karl Marx*
o Communist Manifesto
· Russo-Japanese war
· Joseph Stalin*
o Collectivization/Individualism
o 5 Year Plans
o Great Purge
o Indoctrination
o Soviet famines
· Leo Trotsky*
· Communism*
· Socialism*
· Capitalism *
· Totalitarianism*
· Gulags
· Hitler*
o Mein Kampf
o Triumph of the Will
· Germany economy 1920s
· Mussolini*
· Fascism
World War II:
· Political/Economic Situation in Germany
· Weimar Republic
· Inflation
· Dawes Plan
· Treaty of Locarno 1925
· Kellogg-Brian Pact 1928
· Great Depression – Impact on Germany
· Hitler
· Mein Kampf
· Nazi Party
· Spanish Civil War
· Early WWII
o Appeasement
o Sudetenland
o Rhineland
· Invasion of Poland
o September 1st 1939
· War on the Home Front
· Battle Projects
o Phony War & The Winter War
o Operation Weserubung
o Case Yellow, Battle of France & Operation Dynamo
o Battle of the Atlantic
o Battle of Britain & Operation Sea Lion
o Operation 25 & Operation Marita
o Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Leningrad & and The Battle of Stalingrad
o Battle of El-Alamein
o Operation Torch
o Pacific Theatre (Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines Campaign)
o Operation Citadel and Red Army Advance
o Operation Overlord
o Operation Market Garden
o Ardennes Offensive
o Firebombing of Dresden
o Fall of Berlin
· D Day
o June 6th 1944
· Axis/Allied alliances
· Maginot Line
· V-E Day
· Yalta/Potsdam Conference
· US Enters War
o American Neutrality
o Pearl Harbor
§ Dec 7th 1941
· Cash/Carry
· Lend-Lease
Cold War/Modern Europe:
· Iron Curtain
· Truman Doctrine
· Marshall Plan
· Containment policy
· Berlin Blockade
o Berlin Airlift
· Sphere of Influence
· Satellite States
· Arms Race
· NATO
· Warsaw Pact
· MAD
· US Spy Plane
· Space Race
o Sputnik
· Division of Berlin/Berlin War
o Federal Republic of Germany (W)
o German Democratic Republic (E)
· Attempts to break from the Soviet Union (order of revolution movements)
· Hungarian Revolution – 1956
· Czechoslovakian Revolution - 1968
· Gorbachev’s Policies
o Glasnost:
§ “Openness”
o Perestroika:
§ “Restructuring”
· Latin America
o Che
o Biography
o Motorcycle Diaries
· Fidel Castro
· Margaret Thatcher
· IRA
· The Troubles
· EU
· Latin America
o Drugs
o Democracy
· Yugoslavia