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Modern World History
Final Study Guide – Spring Semester
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List the causes of World War I.
Why was the Triple Entente formed?
Why did the major powers of Europe get involved in WWI?
What was the purpose of propaganda in WWI?
Why were Balkans considered the “powder keg” of Europe?
What was the Schlieffen plan?
What was the result of the battles of Verdun and the Somme?
Describe the Western Front in WWI.
What ere the Allied objectives at Gallipoli?
What was the significance of the Second Battle of the Marne?
Why did Russia leave WWI?
What was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Why did the US enter WWI?
What was the effect of the US’s entry into the war?
What is “total war?”
Why did Asian and African colonies enter the war?
Why did European and Russian civilizations die during WWI?
What was the Armenian massacre?
What atrocities were committed during WWI?
Which nation wanted to severely punish Germany after the WWI?
What were Wilson’s 14 Points?
Which nation made an agreement with Germany during WWI?
What did the Treaty of Versailles require of Germany?
What happened to the Ottoman Empire after WWI?
Which countries were created after WWI?
What was political life like in Europe after WWI?
What was the Weimar Republic?
What was literature like after WWI?
What were the causes of the Russian Revolution?
What were the results of the Russian Revolution?
How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks gain control of Russia?
Why did Stalin tap peoples’ phone lines?
What methods did Stalin use as a totalitarian ruler?
Differences between Stalinist Russia and Fascist Germany/Italy.
How did fascism rise in Italy and Germany after WWI?
Why did France and England declare war on Germany in 1939?
Explain Germany, Italian and Japanese empire building in 1930.
What 1930 invasion included mass murder of civilians?
How did the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact affect Germany?
What strategy did England attempt to avoid war with Germany?
Why did democratic governments in Europe not work after WWI?
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What plan did the US and England devise to end WWI?
What military strategy was used in the invasion of Poland?
What battle turned the tide of the war in the Pacific?
Where was the Asian and Pacific theatre of war in WWII?
What was the Allied invasion of Normandy?
When did Hitler’s invasion of Russia turn into a disaster?
What was Germany’s final attempt to break the Allied lines?
Who led Great Britain during WWII’s devastating years?
Who was Japan’s great military strategist?
How did the Nazis persecute the Jews in Germany?
What was Hitler’s “final solution?”
Other than Jews, what groups were targeted in the Holocaust?
What country had the most military deaths in WWII?
What was the most deadly event of WWII?
What happened at the Yalta Conference?
What organization was created after WWII?
What is the “iron curtain?”
What was the economy of Japan and Germany like after WWII?
Why did the Soviets blockade Berlin after WWII?
What caused the Cold War between the US and the USSR?
Why is the Cold War, called the Cold War?
What alliances were created after WWII and who was in them?
What were the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
What is “containment?”
Why did the US and England airlift supplies to West Berlin?
What was the standoff between the US and USSR in the 1960s?
What war was aimed to stop the spread of communism?
What was the “Bay of Pigs?”
How did China become communist?
What happened to the Nationalists after China’s Civil War?
Why did the Soviets enter Budapest, Hungary with tanks?
Why did Eastern European countries become Soviet satellites?
What satellite countries rebelled? Know details.
What event happened before several communist governments failed?
How was Israel created?
What did the United Nations suggest for Palestine?
Why did Arabs force an oil embargo on the US in 1973?
How did the Soviets pursue arms control in the 1980s?
What was “détente” designed to accomplish?
Why was NATO created?
Why was the United Nations created?