Download UNIT #5 – MONSTER TEST STUDY GUIDE WORLD WAR I THE

UNIT #5 – MONSTER TEST STUDY GUIDE
WORLD WAR I
1) When the war was fought.
2) Underlying sources of tension in Europe which caused the war:
A. Imperialism
B. Military Build-up
C. Alliances
D. Nationalism.
3) The event which sparked the war and why it occurred.
4) The opposing countries and how each got involved.
5) Locations of the main battle fronts. Be familiar with the various battles
A. Verdun
B. Somme
C. Caporetto
D. Tanneberg
E. Gallipoli
6) New weapons of war.
7) The "Lusitania" incident.
8) The "Zimmerman" telegram.
9) First Russian Revolution and its impact on the war.
10) American declaration of war.
11) Second Russian Revolution and its impact on the war.
12) Russian surrender on the Eastern Front (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).
13) Impact of American troops on the Western Front.
14) Signing of the Armistice.
15) The Paris Peace Conference
16) The "Big Four" countries and their representatives.
17) Wilson's “Fourteen Points.”
18) Treatment of the Russians at the Conference.
19) Treaty of Versailles and the punishments for Germany.
THE RISE OF THE TOTALITARIAN STATES
1) Seven features of the totalitarian form of government.
2) Examples of how Italy, Russia, Germany and Japan displayed these features.
3) First Russian Revolution
4) Kerensky & the Provisional Government
5) Second Russian Revolution (the rise of the Bolsheviks).
6) The Reds v. the Whites.
7) The Cheka.
8) Lenin
9) Trotsky
10) Stalin.
11) Five-Year Plans.
10) Collectivization & the kulaks.
11) The “Great Purge.”
12) Comintern.
13) Mussolini & the Fascists.
14) Black Shirts.
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The "March on Rome."
Hitler's background.
Mein Kampf.
“master race” & “lebensraum.”
The rise to power of the Nazis.
The Third Reich.
WORLD WAR II
1) When the war was fought.
2) General cause of World War II.
3) Italian aggression in Ethiopia.
4) Re-militarization of the Rhineland.
5) Spanish Civil War.
6) The Rome-Berlin Axis.
7) Hitler's violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
8) The “Anschluss.”
9) Appeasement & the Munich Pact.
10) The Nazi-Soviet Pact.
11) Blitzkrieg in Poland.
12) The "Phony War."
13) Stalin’s recapture of lost Russian territory.
14) German conquest of Western Europe.
15) Dunkirk.
16) The Battle of Britain.
17) Axis conquest of the Balkans.
18) The Lend-Lease Act.
19) The German attack on the Soviet Union.
20) Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
21) The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis and why Japan joined.
22) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (why, when, etc.).
23) Maximum extent of Axis control (spring, 1942).
24) El Alamein
25) Stalingrad
26) Italy
27) D-Day
28) Battle of the Bulge
29) Yalta
29) Berlin
30) Philippines fall to Japan
31) Coral Sea
32) Midway
33) "island-hopping,"
34) Okinawa
35) Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
36) Italian surrender.
37) German surrender.
38) Japanese surrender.
39)Fate of Mussolini and Hitler
40)The Holocaust:
A. Nuremburg Laws
B. Kristallnacht
C. Ghettoization,
D. Concentration camps
E. Final solution
F. Auschwitz.
41) War Crimes trials.
42) Occupation of Japan & division of Germany
43) The death toll.
44) The United Nations.
45) Conflict between the Allies regarding post-war Europe.
46) W.W.I map
47) W.W.II North Africa & Europe map
48) War in the Pacific map
Study Tips:
1. Know W.W.I map and W.W.II map both are on the test.
2. Make a list of significant people because there are matching sections on the test
3. Be aware of when major events took place because there is a timeline section on the
test.
4. Do not wait till the night before to start reviewing