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Study Guide Unit 4 Dictators and World Wars
Vocabulary
General von Schlieffen
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Mikhail Gorbachev
Archduke Ferdinand
Josef Stalin
Emperor Hirohito
Nikita Khruschev
Benito Mussolini
Trench warfare
Treaty of Versailles
Munich Conference
Weimar government
Sudetenland
Bataan Death March
Marshall Plan
Détente
Perestroika
Iron curtain
Western Front (WWI)
Zimmerman note
fascism
Cold War
final solution
blitzkrieg
propaganda
Truman Doctrine
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
MANIA
NATO
Nazism
Warsaw Pact
atomic bomb
appeasement
containment
Cuban Missile Crisis
glasnost
ethnic cleansing
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Harry Truman
What were the causes of World War I? Why did it happen?
Why was the Schlieffan Plan so important for a German victory?
What caused the United States to enter World War I?
Describe the conditions in Russia prior and during World War I.
How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany after WWI and prior to WWII?
What was propaganda used for? Was it successful?
Describe the circumstances surrounding the Zimmerman telegram.
What sparked the Great Depression?
How were totalitarian dictators similar?
What was the purpose of the Berlin wall?
Why did the Cold War develop?
What happened at the Munich Conference?
What were the reasons Truman gave for dropping the atomic bomb? What justifications
were used to drop the bomb?
How did the role of women change because of each world war?
What was the Marshall Plan designed to do?
Why was Stalin and the Soviet Union concerned about Eastern Europe?
In what ways did the Soviet Union move towards democracy?