Download World History Semester 2 Study Guide

World History Semester 2 Study Guide
You need to know the following:
1. What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th-century Russia do?
2. Who were the Bolsheviks?
3. Who did China's peasants align themselves with in the 1920s?
4. What were soviets under Russia's provisional government?
5. What is a totalitarian state?
6. What was the purpose of the Soviet state's Five-Year Plans?
7. Who seized power from Persia's shah and changed the name of his country to Iran?
8. What did Sun Yixian's Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?
9. Which group was known for taking a 6,000-mile journey known as the "Long March?"
10. Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March?
11. How did czars Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform?
12. How did the Russo-Japanese war show the czar's weakness?
13. Under the Treaty of Versailles, to whom did the Allies give Chinese territories to that had previously been
controlled by Germany?
14. Who was the leader responsible for the Great Purge and who was the main group that was victimized by it?
15. What was the result of China having a Nationalist government recognized by the world but a Communist
party growing in the countryside?
16. What led Great Britain finally to grant India limited self-rule?
17. What is a main idea of the philosophy known as existentialism?
18. What are the art movements from the early 20th century?
19. What effect did World War I have on the literature of the 1920s?
20. What caused Germans to start taking Adolf Hitler and his message seriously?
21. What does fascism stress?
22. What was the policy of appeasement?
23. Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
24. Why did millions of Germans turn against the leaders of the Weimar Republic?
25. What fear added to the appeal of fascism in Italy and Germany?
26. Why did Hitler target the Jewish population as scapegoats for all of Germany's troubles?
27. What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
28. The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
29. What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain?
30. What event occurred on the day described as "a date which will live in infamy"?
31. What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
32. What was the location of the infamous Nazi extermination camp in Poland?
33. What battle marked the final German offensive?
34. Where were atomic bombs dropped?
35. What was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials?
36. What did the Allies' strategy of "island hopping" in the Pacific involve?
37. How did Kristallnacht demonstrate Nazi persecution of Jews?
38. What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"?
39. What led to the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?
40. Under the postwar constitution of Japan, who was the head of government?
41. What does the use of kamikaze pilots show about Japanese culture?
42. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
43. What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?
44. Which leader won China's civil war, and what name did he give to the country?
45. What economic system was used to reshape China's economy after the civil war?
46. During the war in Korea, what did President Truman and Douglas MacArthur disagree strongly about?
47. What tactics were used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World nations?
48. Who were most of the Vietcong?
49. What statement did Joseph Stalin make shortly after President Truman's succession?
50. What two Cold War policies worked together to produce similar goals?
51. What is the dividing of India into two nations was referred to?
52. After gaining their independence, India and Pakistan fought a war over what country?
53. What organization was Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi involved in?
54. French-speaking Africans and West Indians formed a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and
values called what?
55. Who were the Mau Mau?
56. Why did the 1956 Suez Crisis begin?
57. Who was the long-time dictator of the?
58. In 1978,who signed the Camp David Accords?
59. What has caused much of the violence in Sri Lanka?
60. Who is the extremist Islamic group that seized control of Afghanistan during the 1990s?
61. What has caused the intifada in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and what has been its effects?
62. What resulted in the creation of an Israeli "buffer zone" consisting of Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the
Golan Heights, and the West Bank?
63. Why did the UN fail in its plan to create a Palestinian State in the late 1940s?