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Unit 7 Study Guide – World History
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I. Know the following vocabulary words: Triple Entente, League of Nations, Nazism, Schlieffen Plan,
Propaganda, Lebensraum, Armistice, Prolétariat , Blitzkrieg, Isolationism, Triple Alliance, Kamikaze,
Command Economy, Genocide, Fascism,
II. Identify the significance of the following:
1. November 11, 1918 2. September 1, 1939 3. December 7, 1941 4. June 6, 1944 5. May 7, 1945 6. August 14, 1945 –
7. Alsace-Lorraine 8. Lusitania 9. Battle of Verdun (WW I) 10. Vladimir Lenin (Russia) –
11. Treaty of Versailles –
12. Fourteen Points 13. Bolsheviks 14. Josef Stalin (Soviet Union) 15. Benito Mussolini (Italy) 16. Adolf Hitler (Germany) –
17. Beer Hall Putsch 18. Hirohito (Japan) –
19. Sun Yat Sen (China) 20. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Turkey) 21. Mohandas K. Gandhi (India) 22. Winston Churchill (United Kingdom) 23. Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA) 24. Harry Truman (USA) 25. General Douglas Macarthur (USA) 26. Chiang kai-shek/Jiang Jeishi (China) –
27. El Alamein –
28. Pearl Harbor –
29. Battle of Stalingrad –
30. Guadalcanal –
31. Battle for the Philippines –
32. Battle of the Bulge 33. D-day –
34. Italian invasion of Ethiopia –
35. Spanish Civil War –
36. Rape of Nanking –
37. German annexation of Sudentenland - III. Answer the following questions in a brief response:
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What were the four (4) MAIN causes of WWI?
What area was known as the “powder keg” of Europe?
Unit 7 Study Guide – World History
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What act actually started WWI?
Who committed that act?
What was the Schlieffen plan?
What were the names of the two sides in WW I (and list the countries on each side)?
What was “Trench Warfare” like?
What is Total War?
What turns public opinion against Germany before the U.S. enters WW I?
What is the main reason the U.S. entered WW I?
List some of the new weapons of war:
Why was the Russian army destined to fail?
How did Alexander III and Nicholas II rule Russia?
What happens when Nicholas II does not remove Russia from the war?
What is a “Bolshevik”?
How does Russia eventually get out of World War I?
Who was Mao Zedong?
What was the Long March?
What happened in 1931 in China?
How does Hitler eventually become the leader of Germany?
Why did the League of Nations fail?
Why does Japan begin a policy of expansion?
Why did France, Great Britain and the U.S. adopt a policy of “appeasement”?
What countries are in the Axis powers?
What deal do Hitler and Stalin make?
Why?
What were the Five Year Plans?
Identify Nazi ideology, policies, and consequences that led to the Holocaust:
26. What was “Island Hopping”?
IV. Empires, dynasties, & regimes:
1. Nazi Germany a.
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2. Fascist Italy a.
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3. Empire of Japan (Pre WW II & during WW II) a.
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4. Totalitarian Soviet Union a.
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Why was this used?