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UNIT FOUR - THE WORLD WARS
A FEW ITEMS TO REVIEW FOR THE MONSTER TEST
WORLD WAR I
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When the war was fought.
Who was on each side (Allied Powers v. Central Powers).
The map of Europe before the war.
Underlying sources of tension in Europe which caused the war:
Imperialism, Military Build-up, Alliances, Nationalism.
5) The event which sparked the war and why it occurred.
6) The opposing countries and how each got involved.
7) Locations of the three main battle fronts.
8) New weapons of war.
9) Major battles: Caporetto, Gallipoli, Somme, Tannenberg, Verdun.
10) The "Lusitania" incident.
11) The "Zimmerman" telegram.
12) First Russian Revolution.
13) American declaration of war.
14) Second Russian Revolution.
15) Russian surrender on the Eastern Front (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).
16) Impact of American troops on the Western Front.
17) Signing of the Armistice.
18) The Paris Peace Conference.
19) The "Big Three" countries and their representatives.
20) Wilson's “Fourteen Points.”
21) Treatment of the Russians at the Conference.
22) Treaty of Versailles and the punishments for Germany.
23) End of the Austro-Hungarian & Ottoman Empires.
24) Changes to the map of Europe made as a result of the war.
THE RISE OF THE TOTALITARIAN STATES
1) Seven features of the totalitarian form of government.
2) Examples of how Italy, Russia, Germany and Japan displayed these features.
3) First Russian Revolution.
4) Kerensky & the Provisional Government.
5) Second Russian Revolution (the rise of the Bolsheviks).
6) The Reds v. the Whites.
7) The Cheka.
8) Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin.
9) Five-Year Plans.
10) Collectivization & the kulaks.
11) The “Great Purge.”
12) Comintern.
13) Mussolini & the Fascists.
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Black Shirts.
The "March on Rome."
Hitler's background.
Mein Kampf.
How Hitler came to power.
“master race” & “lebensraum.”
The Third Reich.
WORLD WAR II
1) When the war was fought.
2) Who was on each side (Allied Powers v. Axis Powers).
3) The map of Europe before the war.
4) General cause of World War II.
5) Italian invasion in Ethiopia.
6) Re-militarization of the Rhineland.
7) Spanish Civil War.
8) The Rome-Berlin Axis.
9) The “Anschluss.”
10) Appeasement & the Munich Pact.
11) The Nazi-Soviet Pact.
12) Blitzkrieg in Poland.
13) The "Phony War."
14) Stalin’s recapture of lost Russian territory.
15) German conquest of Western Europe.
16) Dunkirk.
17) The Battle of Britain.
18) Axis conquest of the Balkans.
19) The Lend-Lease Act.
20) The German attack on the Soviet Union.
21) Japanese conquests in Asia.
22) The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis and why Japan joined.
23) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (why, when, etc.).
24) The Allied Counterattack:
El Alamein, Stalingrad, Italy, D-Day, Berlin, Coral Sea, Midway,
"island-hopping," Iwo Jima & Okinawa, Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
25) Italian surrender.
26) German surrender.
27) Japanese surrender.
28) Fate of Mussolini, Hitler & Tojo.
29) The Holocaust: Nuremburg Laws, Kristallnacht, ghettoization,
concentration camps, final solution, Auschwitz.
30) War Crimes trials.
31) Occupation of Japan & division of Germany
32) The death toll. (p. 792)
33) Formation of the United Nations.
34) Conflict between the Allies regarding post-war Europe.
35) The map of Europe after the war.