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Unit 2- History of Europe- Study Guide
1. What were the causes of WWI?
2. What was the “spark” that started WWI?
3. Describe the worldwide depression. How did this effect Germans?
4. Complete the chart below concerning the Treaty of Versailles: *Remember BLAME
Effect
What that means
PAY COMPENSATION
(Reparations)
This organization of nations would cooperate to
keep peace.
GERMANY’S EMPIRE
Germany lost land to France, Poland, Belgium, and
Denmark. An area of Germany was even separated from the
mainland.
MASSIVE ARMY CUTS
5. How did the Treaty of Versailles make the German people feel?
6. What were the causes of the Russian Revolution?
7. The Russian Revolution had what effect on World War I?
8. What was the result of the Russian Revolution?
9. Describe the Holocaust.
10. Adolf Hitler was the leader of what political party?
11. How was Hitler able to get Germans to believe in him?
12. Which war involved money and propaganda rather than fighting and increased tensions between countries
with the threat of nuclear weapons?
13. Define superpower and identify which two were involved in the Cold War.
14. The Cold War was “cold” because…
15. What was the US worried that the Soviet Union would do?
16. What happened to East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell?
17. Identify Mikhail Gorbechev and explain how he changed the Soviet Union.
18. What caused the fall of the Soviet Union?
Identifications:
**Be able to DEFINE and EXPLAIN why these terms are important
1. Reparations
2.Holocaust
3.Berlin Wall
 THEN, choose 3 additional terms from the list below and define AND explain the significance
Anti- Semitism
Nazism
Trench Warfare
League of Nations
Superpowers
Iron Curtain
Communism
Adolf Hitler
Worldwide Depression
Czar Nicholas II
Bloody Sunday
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Rasputin
Treaty of Versailles
B Germany except blame for war
L Germany must give up parts of it land to nearby countries
A Germany must reduce its army
M Germany must pay huge sums of money to Allied Powers
E Germany must give up its empires in Africa