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WORLD HISTORY
UNIT 5 (MONSTER TEST) STUDY GUIDE
World War I (pgs. 678-697)
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When was the war fought?
Four sources of tension in Europe which led to the war
Event that sparked the war – Why did it occur?
Final alliances (before the war – 3 nations of the Triple Entente, 3 nations of the Triple Alliance)
New weapons of war – explain the impact of each
The Lusitania incident
The Zimmerman telegram
1st and 2nd Russian Revolution (1917)
What brought the U.S. into the war?
Signing of the armistice – When? Who signed it?
Paris Peace Conference
“Big Three” countries and their representatives
Main ideas of Wilson’s “14 Points”
Treaty of Versailles – How did it punish Germany?
Map of Europe in 1914 – be able to identify nations involved/battle sites
Schlieffen Plan
People – Identify each of the following figures:
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Otto von Bismarck
Nicholas II
Gavrilo Princip
Woodrow Wilson
Francis Joseph
Francis Ferdinand
Wilhelm II
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
V.I. Lenin
Vittorio Orlando
Totalitarian States: USSR (pgs. 702-712), Italy (pgs. 757-760), Germany (pgs. 761-765)
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Six features of totalitarian states
Examples of how Russia, Italy and Germany displayed these features
The Reds vs. The Whites
The Cheka
Five-Year Plans
Collectivization and the kulaks
The Great Purge
Comintern
Mussolini – How did he rise to power in Italy?
Black Shirts
March on Rome – When? Who? Why?
Fascism – What is it? How is it similar to/different from communism?
Mein Kampf
“Lebensraum”
Hitler – How did he rise to power in Germany?
Brown Shirts
Nuremberg Laws
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Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Benito Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel III
Adolf Hitler
World War II (pgs. 770-792)
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When was the war fought?
General causes of WWII
Japanese aggression in Asia – Where/when did it begin?
Italian aggression in Ethiopia
Spanish Civil War
Hitler’s violations of the Treaty of Versailles
Anschluss
Appeasement – reasons for nations to choose this policy
The Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Blitzkrieg in Poland
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Lend-Lease Act
Operation Barbarossa
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis: their agreement/goal
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Allied Counterattack: El Alamein, Stalingrad, D-Day, Coral Sea, Midway, “island hopping,”
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Dates of surrender: Italy (Sept. 3, 1943), Germany, Japan
Fate of Mussolini and Hitler
The Holocaust: concentration camps, final solution, Auschwitz
Truman’s ultimatum to Japan at the Potsdam Conference
War crimes trials (Nuremberg)
Occupation of Germany and Japan
The UN
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Francisco Franco
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Hideki Tojo
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Rudolf Hoess
Hermann Goering
Bernard Montgomery
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas McArthur