Review Template #13: Chapter Ten WHAP/Princeton Review
Recent Stuff: Around 1914 to the Present
Questions:
1-Why did events in Europe in 1914 affect people around the world?
2-Why did a major fight in 1914 among European powers have a far more substantial and destructive effect than previous conflicts?
3-How did European powers try to keep the balance of power in the decades leading up to World War I?
4-Why did the newly unified Germany worry about France?
5-What was the Triple Alliance?
6-Why did Russia and France form an alliance?
7-What was the Schlieffen Plan?
8-What was the Triple Entente?
9-Who was the “sick man of Europe”?
10-Who controlled Bosnia and Herzegovina? Why?
11-What did Serbia want? Who was allied with Serbia?
12-What happened in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, in 1914?
13-Describe the effects of Gavrilo Princip’s, a Serbian nationalist, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the alliance system.
14-What incident led to Britain’s involvement in the First World War?
15-What was Italy’s response to the conflict?
16-What nations formed the Central Powers?
17-Why did this European conflict lead to casualties across the globe?
18-What nations comprised the Allies?
19-What policy did the U.S.A. pursue at the start of WWI?
20-What two events shifted public opinion in the U.S.A. (Explain in detail the significance of the Zimmerman telegram)?
21-What alliance did the U.S.A. eventually join?
22-When did the First World War end?
23-What were the consequences of the war?
24-Why did women in Britain and the U.S. gain the vote after the war?
25-What are the other names for WWI? Why?
26-What was the Treaty of Versailles?
27-How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?
28-What happened to Austria-Hungary after the First World War?
29-How did President Wilson’s Fourteen Points differ from the Treaty of Versailles?
30-Why did Britain and France find Wilson’s proposal unacceptable?
31-How did the Treaty of Versailles pave the way to a Second World War?
32-What was the purpose of the League of Nations?
33-Why did the U.S. not join the League of Nations?
34-Why was Russia not “prepared” for the First World War?
35-What did Alexander Kerensky establish?
36-Why was the provisional government ineffectual?
37-What were Soviets?
38-What did the provisional government want to continue? Why?
39-Who desperately wanted to end Russia’s involvement in the war?
40-What happened by 1918 in Russia?
41-Who were the Bolsheviks?
42-Who was Vladimir Lenin and why was he significant?
43-Describe the April Theses.
44-What did Lenin set about nationalizing upon coming to power?
45-Discuss the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
46-What was Russia renamed?
47-What broke out in parts of Lenin’s Russia?
48-What was the Red Army?
49-Who was Leon Trotsky and why was he significant?
50-What were two lasting implications of the counterrevolution?
51-What fatal mistake did the Ottoman Empire make?
52-Who was Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal) and why was he significant?
53-What were the changes that Atatürk introduced in Turkey?
54-What was Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP)?
55-Who assumed leadership of the Communist Party when Vladimir Lenin died?
56-What did Stalin do with the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
57-Discuss Stalin’s Five Year Plans.
58-Define and describe collectivization.
59-Why did many Soviets die as a result of collectivization?
60-What does U.S.S.R mean?
61-What did Stalin rely on to implement his programs?
62-What was the “Great Purge”?
63-Why did the financial headquarters of the world shift from London to New York as a consequence of the First World War?
64-What two countries in particular relied on American credit?
65-How did the Bolshevik government deal with the loans Russia borrowed from France during WWI?
66-What caused extreme financial hardship for Germany?
67-How did Germany pay its reparations?
68-Why was the economic growth in Europe and the U.S.A. from 1924 to 1929 artificial?
69-What happened in October 1929?
70-What was the Great Depression?
71-Why did Europe run out of money?
72-What two countries were hit hardest by the Great Depression?
73-Who was Franklin Roosevelt and why was he important?
74-What happened in countries where democracy had shallow roots?
75-Discuss fascism.
76-Compare and contrast Fascism and Totalitarianism.
77-What was the first state to have a fascist government?
78-Who was Benito Mussolini and why was he significant?
79-Who were the Blackshirts and how did they win over the loyalty of factory owners and landowners?
80-What did Mussolini demand that King Victor Emmanuel III name him?
81-How did Mussolini rally support?
82-How did the king respond to Mussolini’s parliamentary thugs? Why?
83-Why did Mussolini face very little opposition to his consolidation of political power?
84-What did Mussolini do in 1922?
85-What had happened to Italy by 1926?
86-How did Mussolini rally his people (Think “nationalist cause”)?
87-What happened in Germany immediately following the end of World War I?
88-What was the Weimar Republic and why was it significant?
89-What political party rose to power in Germany in the 1920s?
90-Why did the German people increasingly reject the solutions of the Weimar Republic’s elected body, the Reichstag?
91-Who was Adolf Hitler and how did he transform Germany?
92-How did social Darwinism influence Hitler?
93-Define fuhrer.
94-What happened in Germany in 1933?
95-What was the Third Reich and what were its goals?
96-Compare and contrast nationalism in Europe and nationalism in its colonies.
97-How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles in 1933?
98-What happened in Spain in the summer of 1936?
99-Describe the main factions in the Spanish civil war.
100-Why did France and Great Britain adopt a noninterventionist policy during the Spanish civil war?
101-What was the outcome of the Spanish civil war?
102-What did Spain manage to do during the Second World War?
103-What did Hitler do regarding the Rhineland? Why was this action significant?
104-What did Hitler annex in 1938?
105-What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938? Who were the participants of the Conference?
106-Discuss the policy of appeasement.
107-What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
108-What did the Nazis do after signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
109-What did Britain do after German forces invaded Poland?
110-So, what event marked the start of the Second World War?
111-Discuss the list of twenty-one demands Japan sent to China.
112-What did Japan invade in 1931? What did Japan rename the territory?
113-What organization did Japan withdraw from?
114-What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?
115-What was the “Rape of Nanjing”?
116-Discuss blitzkrieg.
117-Describe Hitler’s actions in Europe after the invasion of Poland.
118-Who was Winston Churchill and why was he significant?
119-What was the Battle of Britain?
120-Why did the Nazis invade the Soviet Union?
121-What was the U.S.A.’s response to Japan’s invasion of Indochina?
122-What was the Tripartite Pact?
123-What did the Japanese do on December 7, 1941? Why did Japan do this?
124-What happened after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor?
125-What was the Manhattan Project?
126-Discuss D-day.
127-What happened at Stalingrad in 1942?
128-Discuss the end of World War II.
129-Why did President Truman of the United States order the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945?
130-Describe the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
131-Why did President Truman of the United State authorize the dropping of a second bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945?
132-What did the Japanese do after the second atomic bomb was dropped?
133-Discuss the Holocaust.
134-Why did public sympathy for the creation of Israel as a homeland for Jews rise sharply after World War II?
135-Discuss the peace settlement.
136-What was the Marshall Plan and why was it significant?
137-How did the end of World War II impact European colonies?
138-How did World War II affect women?
139-What is the United Nations and why is it significant?
140-Discuss the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (now known as the World Trade Organization) as well as the impact of these organizations on the world.
141-How did the United States and the Soviet Union differ? Why did these differences create tensions after World War II?