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Period 6 Study Questions – World War I, World War II, Cold War Strayer, Chapters 21 and 22 Bentley, Chapters 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 Wednesday, 4/9: DBQ Thursday, 4/10: Objective Test STUDY QUESTIONS: 1. What aspects of Europe's nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War? 2. In what ways did World War I mark new departures in the history of the twentieth century? 3. In what ways was the Great Depression a global phenomenon? 4. In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy? 5. What was distinctive about the German expression of fascism? What was the basis of popular support for the Nazis? 6. How did Japan's experience during the 1920s and 1930s resemble that of Germany, and how did it differ? 7. In what way were the origins of World War II in Asia and in Europe similar to each other? How were they different? 8. How did World War II differ from World War I? (Hint: Study the chart we did in class) 9. How was Europe able to recover from the devastation of war? 10. When and where did communism exercise influence during the twentieth century? 11. Identify the major differences between the Russian and Chinese revolutions. 12. Why were the Bolsheviks able to ride the Russian Revolution to power? 13. What was the appeal of communism in China before 1949? How did the public perception of communism in China change after Mao Zedong took control of China? 14. What changes did communist regimes bring to the lives of women? 15. How did the collectivization of agriculture differ between the USSR and China? 16. What were the achievements of communist efforts at industrialization? What problems did these achievements generate? 17. Why did communist regimes generate terror and violence on such a massive scale? 18. In what different ways was the Cold War expressed? 19. In what ways did the United States play a global role after World War II? 20. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the communist world by the 1970s. 21. What proxy wars were fought in the name of the Cold War? What changes and continuities can you examine from these conflicts? 22. What explains the rapid end of the communist era? 23. How did the end of communism in the Soviet Union differ from communism's demise in China? BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS: 1. What changes and continuities existed in nationalism movements in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the first half of the 20th century? 2. To what extent 3. What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth century? 4. In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the twentieth century? 5. To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II? 6. In what ways did Europe's internal conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have global implications? 7. What was the appeal of communism, in terms of both its promise and its achievements? To what extent did it fulfill that promise? 8. Why did the communist experiment, which was committed to equality and a humane socialism, generate such oppressive, brutal, and totalitarian regimes? 9. What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist industrialization and modernization compared to the same processes in the West a century earlier? 10. What was the global significance of the Cold War? 11. "The end of communism was as revolutionary as its beginning." Do you agree with this statement? 12. In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China experience communism during the twentieth century?