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Unit 6 Crises and Achievements (1900 – 1945)
Section 1: Scientific & Technological Achievements
Key Terms. Describe:
1. Germ Theory
2. Antibiotic
3. Dynamo
4. Radioactivity
Describe how each of the individuals listed below improved medical care:
1. Louis Pasteur
2. Robert Koch
3. Joseph Lister
How did the reforms of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s affect the average quality of people’s lives?
Describe an effect on daily life of each of these inventions:
1. Electricity
2. Telephone
3. Radio
4. Automobile
Why was there an increase in the population in the late 1800’s?
Describe how each of the individuals listed below changed scientific thought:
1. Marie Curie
2. Albert Einstein
3. Sigmund Freud
Section 2: World War I
Key Terms. Describe:
1. Militarism
2. Bosnia
3. Total War
4. Propaganda
5. Trench Warfare
6. Neutral
7. Armistice
8. Reparations
Using the list below, describe how each concept helped cause World War I:
1. Nationalism
2. Militarism
3. Imperialism
4. Alliance systems
5. Decline of the Ottoman empire
What was the Balkan crisis and how did it lead to the start of World War I?
Who were the Central Powers?
Who were the Allied Powers?
Name two new war technologies and describe how it changed warfare?
1.
2.
Why did the United States enter World War I and why is the entry of the United States a turning point?
Describe 3 major effects the war had from a human and economic perspective:
1.
2.
3.
Section 3: Revolution in Russia: Causes & Impacts
Key Terms. Describe:
1. Soviet
2. Bolshevik
3. New Economic Policy
4. Totalitarian State
5. Command Economy
6. Five – year plan
7. Collective
Describe how each of the factors listed below is considered a long-term cause of the Revolution:
1. Czarist Rule
2. Peasant unrest
3. Problems of Urban Workers
4. Diversity & Nationalism
Describe the events of the Revolution of 1905?
Discuss how each of the events lists below ended the Czarist rule and contributed to the Revolution:
1. A Nation in Chaos
2. The March Revolution
3. Failure of the Provisional Government
Who was Vladimir Lenin and describe his role in the Russian Revolution?
For each policy listed, describe how Lenin ruled Russia:
Withdrawal from World War I
Russia’s Civil War
One – Party Government
New Economic Policy
The Soviet Union
Who was Joseph Stalin and what type of government did he establish in Russia?
Describe five specific ways in which Stalin failed to respect the human rights of Russians and minority national
groups in the Soviet Union:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Describe Stalin’s economic system for each policy listed below:
1. Industrialization
2. Collectivization
3. Forced Famine
What were two goals or practices that Lenin and Stalin held in common?
1.
2.
How did Stalin’s chief goal differ from Lenin’s?
Section 4: Between the Wars
Key Terms. Describe:
1. Treaty of Versailles
2. Mandate
3. Civil disobedience
4. Fascism
Describe how each punishment listed below effected Germany:
1. Territorial Losses
2. Military Restrictions
3. War Guilt
What was the League of Nations and why was it weak?
Describe the collapse of the following empires:
1. Breakup of Austria – Hungary:
2. Breakup of the Ottoman Empire:
Describe 3 unfulfilled national goals that resulted from World War I:
1.
2.
3.
For each movement listed below, describe how each region struggled for self – determination:
1. Turkish Nationalism
2. Iranian Nationalism
3. Arab Nationalism
4. Zionism
5. Indian Nationalism
6. Chinese Nationalism
Describe who each of the following individuals are and what role did they play in the independence movements of
their nations:
1. Kemal Ataturk
2. Mohandas Gandhi
Describe the women’s suffrage movement?
Describe how each caused the worldwide economic depression:
Less Demand for Raw Materials
Overproduction of Manufactured
Goods
The Stock Market Crash
How did war and economic depression lead to the rise of fascism?
Describe how each of the individuals listed below used fascism to gain control and rule their nations:
1. Benito Mussolini
2. Adolf Hitler
What economic problems led to the rise of militarism in Japan?
Section 5: World War II
Key Terms. Describe:
1. Appeasement
2. Pearl Harbor
3. Blitz
4. Genocide
5. Concentration camp
How did each event help cause World War II:
Japan Invades China
Italy Attacks Ethiopia
German Aggression in
Europe
Appeasement
Describe who were the two sides when World War II began?
1.
2.
Describe the importance of each of the following turning points of the war:
1. Entry of the United States
2. Battle of Stalingrad (1942 – 1943)
3. El Alamien (1942)
4. Invasion of Italy (1943)
5. Invasion of Normandy (D-Day, 1944)
Describe how each event listed below contributed to the end of World War II:
1. Yalta Conference
2. Victory in the Pacific
3. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
How did civilians contribute to the war effort?
What was the Holocaust?
Describe how Hitler and Nazi treatment of Jewish people became increasingly more horrible as World War II
progressed?
Describe each of the following impacts of World War II:
Human Losses
Economic Losses
War Crime Trials
Occupied Nations
The United Nations
Literature & the Arts