The Contemporary Era WHAP/Napp

The Contemporary Era WHAP/Napp

The Time Period:

1914 – Present
From 1914 onward, everything seemed to have global significance
Wars were called “world wars”
Issues were thought of in terms of their worldwide impact, such as “global hunger” or “international terrorism”

Organizations formed to coordinate international efforts, such as the United Nations
Economies and cultures continued to merge to such a degree that eventually millions of people communicated instantaneously on the World Wide Web, feeding a massive cultural shift known simply as “globalization”
The World War I Era
The World War II Era
Communism and the Cold War
Independence Movements and Developments in Asia and Africa
Globalization and the World Since 1980
Changes and Continuities in the Role of Women Since 1914

The World War I Era: ______
The Triple Alliance: ______
The Schlieffen Plan: ______
The Triple Entente: ______
The “Sick Man of Europe”: ______
The “Powder Keg” or the Balkans: ______
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: ______
Gavrilo Princip: ______
Nationalism: ______
Storming Through Belgium: ______
Italy’s Change of Position: ______
Central Powers: ______
Militarism: ______
War and Imperialism: ______
Allies: ______
U.S.A. and Isolationism: ______
Until The Lusitania: ______
The Zimmerman Telegram: ______
America Entered the War: ______
The Western Front: ______
Trench Warfare: ______
The Eastern Front: ______
Russia Dropped Out: ______
New Weapons: ______
The Treaty of Versailles: ______
Reparations: ______
“War Guilt” Clause: ______
Not the Fourteen Points: ______
The League of Nations: ______
The Failure of the League of Nations: ______
The Russian Revolution: ______
Shortages on the Eastern Front: ______
The Abdication of Czar Nicholas II:______
Alexander Kerensky: ______
Soviets: ______
The Bolsheviks: ______
Bread, Peace, and Land:______
Vladimir Lenin: ______
April Theses: ______
A Second Revolution in Russia: ______
Nationalization of Russian Industries: ______
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: ______
Civil War in Russia: ______
The Red Army: ______
Leon Trotsky:______
The Soviet Union: ______
Mustafa Kemal: ______
Ataturk: ______
Modernization and Westernization of Turkey: ______
Abolishing the Fez: ______
Changing the Alphabet: ______
Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP): ______
Death of Lenin: ______
Joseph Stalin: ______
Five Year Plans: ______
Collectivization: ______
Kulaks: ______
Famine in the Ukraine: ______
Totalitarianism: ______
The “Great Purge”:______
The Great Depression: ______
The Effects of the Great Depression: ______
Franklin Roosevelt: ______
Fascism: ______
Extreme Nationalism: ______
Benito Mussolini: ______
The Black Shirts: ______
Mussolini Named Prime Minister: ______
Weimar Republic: ______
National Socialist Party (Nazis): ______
Adolf Hitler: ______
The Reichstag: ______
Hitler’s Anti-Semitism and Social Darwinism: ______
Nuremberg Laws: ______
Concentration Camps: ______
Human Rights Violations: ______
Hitler’s “Final Solution”: ______
Fuhrer: ______
Third Reich: ______
Hitler’s Violation of the Treaty of Versailles: ______
Francisco Franco: ______
Dictatorship of Spain: ______
Hitler and the Rhineland: ______
Hitler and Austria: ______
Hitler and Sudetenland: ______
The Munich Conference of 1938: ______
Neville Chamberlain:______
Appeasement: ______
Nazi-Soviet Pact: ______
Nazi Invasion of Poland: ______
The World War II: ______
Japan and Manchukuo: ______
Anti-Comintern Pact: ______
“The Rape of Nanjing”: ______
Blitzkrieg: ______
Winston Churchill: ______
The Battle of Britain: ______
The Royal Air Force: ______
Breaking the Nazi-Soviet Pact: ______
U.S.A. and Trade SanctionsTowards Japan: ______
Tripartite Pact: ______
Pearl Harbor Attack: ______
U.S.A. Entered the War: ______
Manhattan Project: ______
D-Day: ______
Red Army at Stalingrad in 1942: ______
Suicide of Hitler: ______
Island-Hopping in the Pacific: ______
President Truman: ______
Hiroshima: ______
Nagasaki: ______
World Knowledge of the Holocaust: ______
Six Million Jews: ______
Poles, Slaves, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Disabled, and Dissidents: ______
The Occupation of Germany: ______
New Superpowers: ______
War Crime Tribunals: ______
Nuremberg Trials: ______
The Occupation of Japan: ______
Demilitarization and Democratization of Japan: ______
The Marshall Plan: ______
Changes for Women: ______
The United Nations: ______
The World Bank: ______
International Monetary Fund: ______
The World Trade Organization: ______
The Cold War: ______
Differing Views of Superpowers: ______
An Arms Race: ______
Yalta and Potsdam: ______
Soviet Puppet States in Eastern Europe: ______
1948 and Germany: ______
The Berlin Blockade: ______
The Berlin Airlift: ______
Soviet Bloc or Soviet Satellites: ______
The Western Bloc: ______
Truman Doctrine: ______
Containment Policy: ______
NATO: ______
Warsaw Pact: ______
Iron Curtain: ______
Nuclear Proliferation: ______
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: ______
International Atomic Energy Agency: ______
Sun Yat-sen: ______
Chinese Revolution of 1911: ______
Three Principles of the People: ______
Koumindang (KMT): ______
Chiang Kai-shek: ______
Japanese Invasion of China: ______
The Defeat of the Japanese and Civil War Again in China: ______
Mao Zedong: ______
Communist and Peasants: ______
Surviving the Long March: ______
The Nationalist Fled to Taiwan: ______
The People’s Republic of China: ______
Mao’s Collectivization of Agriculture: ______
Great Leap Forward: ______
Communes and Famine: ______
Sino-Soviet Split: ______
Cultural Revolution: ______
Red Guards: ______
Little Red Book: ______
Death of Mao: ______
Deng Xiaoping: ______
Deng’s Four Modernizations: ______
One-Child Policy: ______
Deng Xiaoping Introducing Free Market Capitalism: ______
Deng Xiaoping – Economic Freedoms but Not Political: ______
Tiananmen Square Massacre: ______
The Division of Korea: ______
The 38th Parallel: ______
North Korea: ______
South Korea: ______
The Korean War: ______
North Korea Attacked South Korea: ______
General MacArthur Nearly Reaching the Chinese Border: ______
China Entering the War: ______
An Armistice in 1953: ______
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: ______
Vietminh: ______
Division of Vietnam: ______
Ho Chi Min: ______
Ngo Dihn Diem: ______
Vietnam War: ______
Guerilla Warfare: ______
Reunification of Vietnam as a Communist State: ______
The Platt Amendment: ______
The Batista Dictatorship in Cuba: ______
Fidel Castro: ______
The Cuban Revolution: ______
President Kennedy: ______
The Bay of Pigs: ______
The Cuban Missile Crisis: ______
U.S. Trade Embargo with Cuba: ______
“Good Neighbor” Policy: ______
Mexico’s PRI: ______
And from a previous unit, the Mexican Revolution: ______
And from a previous unit, Emiliano Zapata and “Pancho” Villa: ______
The 1917 Constitution of Mexico: ______
Argentina’s Juan Peron: ______
The Sandinistas in Nicaragua: ______
The Contras: ______
Export Economies: ______
PAN or Political Action Party of Mexico: ______
Hugo Chavez and Venezuela: ______
Poland and Solidarity: ______
Lech Walesa: ______
Tadeusz Mazowiecki: ______
Poland Joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004: ______
German Reunification: ______
Fall of Berlin Wall in 1989: ______
Mikhail Gorbachev: ______
Glasnost: ______
Perestroika: ______
Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991: ______
“Ethnic Cleansing” in the Former Yugoslavia: ______
Chechnya: ______
Transition in Eastern Europe: ______
The End of the Cold War: ______
Disbanding the Warsaw Pact: ______
The U.S.A. – the Only Superpower: ______
Boris Yeltsin: ______
Former K.G.B. Agent Vladimir Putin: ______
Dmitry Medvedev: ______
Decolonization After World War II: ______
Indian National Congress: ______
The Muslim League: ______
Amritsar Massacre: ______
Mohandas Gandhi: ______
Passive Resistance: ______
Civil Disobedience: ______
The Division of the Subcontinent: ______
Pakistan: ______
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: ______
East Pakistan then Bangladesh: ______
Rioting during Partitioning: ______
Assassination of Gandhi: ______
Fighting Over Kashmir: ______
India – The World’s Largest Democracy: ______
Gamal Nasser: ______
Nationalization of the Suez Canal: ______
Problem of European Boundaries of Africa: ______
Algerians and Independence: ______
Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah: ______
Kenya and Jomo Kenyatta: ______
Angola, Belgian Congo, and Civil Wars: ______
Zimbabwe in 1980: ______
The African Union: ______
The Organization of African Unity (OAU): ______
NGOS (Nongovernmental Organizations): ______
Ethnic Conflict and Civil War: ______
Rwanda and Ethnic Genocide: ______
Hutu and Tutsi: ______
Juvenal Habyarimana: ______
Civil War and Genocide: ______
Union of South Africa: ______
Apartheid: ______
Creation of Homelands: ______
Nelson Mandela: ______
The Sharpeville Massacre: ______
Carrying Passes: ______
The Arrest of Mandela in 1964: ______
The Soweto Riots: ______
The Release of Mandela in 1990: ______
1994 and the End of Apartheid: ______
The Election of Nelson Mandela: ______
Zionism: ______
Theodore Herzl: ______
Balfour Declaration: ______
1948 and the Creation of Israel: ______
David Ben-Gurion: ______
Arab-Israeli War: ______
Palestinians Without A Homeland: ______
Six Days’ War: ______
Gaza Strip: ______
Golan Heights: ______
Prime Minster Begin: ______
President Anwar Sadat: ______
Camp David Accords: ______
The Assassination of Sadat: ______
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO): ______
Intifada: ______
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: ______
Yassir Arafat: ______
Mahmoud Abbas: ______
Hamas: ______
Fatah: ______
Hezbollah: ______
Reza Shah Pahlavi: ______
Iranian Revolution: ______
Ayatollah Khomeini: ______
Iran-Iraq War: ______
Iran and Nuclear Technologies: ______
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: ______
OPEC: ______
Saddam Hussein: ______
Persian Gulf War: ______
Weapons of Mass Destruction: ______
Another Invasion to Oust Hussein From Power: ______
Sectional Conflicts in Iraq: ______
U.S. Coalition Troops in Iraq: ______
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: ______
Nur Muhammad Taraki: ______
Gorbachev Withdrew Troops: ______
The Taliban: ______
Osama bin Laden: ______
Al-Qaeda: ______
September 11, 2001: ______
World Trade Center: ______
Invasion of Afghanistan: ______
International Terrorism: ______
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): ______
European Union (EU): ______
Deng Xiaoping’s Special Economic Zones: ______
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): ______
Group of Six (G6): ______
G8: ______
G20: ______
Environmental Concerns: ______
The “Green Revolution”: ______
Global Warming: ______
Kyoto Protocol: ______
The Personal Computer Revolution: ______
The World Wide Web: ______
Women and Increased Rights: ______
But Gender Discrimination Persists: ______
Modern Medicine: ______
Increased Life Expectancy: ______
Self-Determination: ______
Globalization: ______

Important Terms:

Allies
Armaments
Armistice
Atomic Energy
Capitalism
Cold War
Collective/Collectivization
Communism
Conservative
Containment
Decolonization
Democratization
Egalitarian
Ethnic Cleansing
Exodus
Fascism
First World
Globalization
Global Warming
Guerilla
Isolationism
Jihad
Liberal
Militarism
Nationalism
Nationalize
Nation-State
Natural Resources
National Socialist Party (Nazi)
Nuclear
Radical
Recession
Reform
Reparations
Revolution
Secular
Sectarian
Terrorism
Third World
Totalitarian
Westernization

People, Places, and Events

Apartheid

Asian Tigers

Aswan Dam

Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal

Ayatollah Khomeini

Balfour Declaration

Berlin Airlift

Berlin Wall

Bolshevik Party
Castro, Fidel

Chiang Kai Shek

Churchill, Winston
Cuban Missile Crisis

Cultural Revolution

Deng Xiaoping

Eastern Bloc

European Economic Community
European Union

Fourteen Points
Gandhi, Mohandas

Garvey, Marcus

Great Leap Forward

Hitler, Adolph

Ho Chi Minh

Holocaust

Hussein, Saddam
International Atomic Energy Agency

International Monetary Fund

Intifada

Iran-Iraq War

Iron Curtain
Israel

Korean War

League of Nations

Lenin, Vladimir

Mao Zedong

NAFTA

NATO

OPEC

Pahlavi, Shah Reza

Palestine

Rape of Nanjing

Six Days War

Stalin, Josef

Sun Yat-sen

Third Reich

Treaty of Versailles

Trench Warfare

Trotsky, Leon

Truman Doctrine

USSR

United Nations

Vietnam War

War on Terror

Warsaw Pact

Wilson, Woodrow

WTO

World War I

World War II

Young Turks Party