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Western Civilization II Unit 11 Terms
The Interwar Period and World War II
Chapter 26: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the War, 1919-1939
An Uncertain Peace, pp. 813-816
Dawes Plan
Great Depression
Treaty of Locarno
John Maynard Keynes
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fascism
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What was the impact of World War I and what problems did European countries face in the
1920s?
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What actions did France take in its search for security?
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What were the causes of the Great Depression? What impact did it have on Europe?
The Democratic States, pp. 813-821
Mustafa Kemal
Civil disobedience
Mohandas Gandhi
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What were the major political changes that occurred in Great Britain and France during the
1920s?
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Be familiar with the colonial unrest in the Middle East, India, and Africa that emerged after
World War I.
The Authoritarian and Totalitarian States, pp. 821-839
Propaganda
Enabling Act
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce)
Nuremberg Laws
Weimar Republic
Kristallnacht
Adolph Hitler
New Economic Policy
Nazi Party (National Socialist German
Joseph Stalin
Workers’ Party)
Five Year Plan
Mein Kampf
Francisco Franco
Lebensraum
Spanish Civil War
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Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar
years?
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Understand the characteristics of totalitarianism and how they were present in Fascist Italy,
Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union.
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Be familiar with Adolph Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s and how the Nazis gained
control of Germany.
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How did the Spanish Civil War serve as a “dress rehearsal” for World War II?
Chapter 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II
Prelude to War (1933-1939), pp. 850-857
Aryans
Blitzkrieg
Appeasement
Sudetenland
Rome-Berlin Axis
Munich Conference
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What were Hitler’s foreign policy goals? What steps did he take to achieve them?
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What actions were taken by the other European nations to try to prevent war?
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What were Japan’s goals in East Asia? What steps did they take to achieve them?
The Course of World War II, pp. 857-865
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What were the events directly leading to the war?
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Who were the Allied Powers? The Axis Powers?
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What were the main events of the war? What were the turning points?
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Why was the Allied agreement to fight for unconditional surrender significant?
The New Order, pp. 865-872
Final Solution
Wannsee Conference
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What role did resistance movements play during World War II?
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What role did the Holocaust play in Nazi policy?
The Home Front, pp. 872-877
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What were conditions like on the home front for the nations fighting the war?
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Why was World War II an even more “total war” than World War I?
Aftermath of the War: Cold War, pp. 877-881
Cold War
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Be familiar with the wartime conferences held by the Allied leaders and the decisions
made at the conferences.
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How did the Allies’ visions of the post-war world differ? How did these differences lead to
the emergence of the Cold War?
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