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Semester 2 Final Study Guide
World War II
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Terms and Names – explain the following from the unit of study. Please make sure you give examples or
descriptions not just definitions:
Terms
1. Rearmament
a. Manchuria
b. Yalta Conference
2. Big Three
a. Potsdam Conference
3. Appeasement
4. Axis Powers
5. Francisco Franco
6. isolationism
7. Munich Conference
8. Benito Mussolini
9. blitzkrieg
10. Allies
11. Winston Churchill
12. Battle of Britain
Questions
13. Emperor Hirohito
14. Battle of Midway
15. Erwin Rommel
16. Douglas MacArthur
17. Enola Gay
18. D-Day
19. Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. Battle of Stalingrad
21. kamikaze
22. Battle of the Bulge
23. Nuremberg Trials
24. demilitarization
25. Treaty of Versailles
26. Anschluss
27. Describe Hitler’s early military actions, and the policy of appeasement of Britain and France, using as
many details as possible.
28. Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
29. Discuss the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union and the Soviet war effort.
30. Describe the Africa campaign using as many details as possible.
31. Describe life on the Allied home fronts.
32. Describe the war in the Pacific Theater using as many details as possible.
33. Why were there hostile feelings between the Soviet Union and the western democracies (especially the
U.S. and Great Britain) following World War II?
34. What reasons are given to explain the use of the atomic weapon on Japan? Do you agree or disagree
with the decision to use the atomic weapon against Japan? Explain.
World War I
Terms
1. Otto von Bismarck
17. censorship
2. Kaiser Wilhelm
18. rationing
3. Central Powers
19. Czar Nicholas II
4. Triple Entente
20. U-Boat
5. Gavrilo Princip
21. Lusitania
6. Franz Ferdinand
22. Zimmerman Telegram
7. Ultimatum
23. genocide
8. Allies
24. Armenians
9. Schlieffen Plan
25. Armistice
10. Verdun
26. Treaty of Versailles
11. Somme
27. Paris Peace Conference
12. Gallipoli
28. The Big Four
13. attrition
29. Fourteen Points
14. total war
30. Woodrow Wilson
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15. stalemate
31. League of Nations
16. propaganda
Questions
32. What were the four main causes of WWI?
33. What was the Schlieffen Plan? Was it successful? Explain.
34. Why was trench warfare a necessary tactic in WWI? Describe life in the trenches.
35. Describe Russia’s participation in WWI.
36. Give two examples that illustrate that WWI was a “world” war?
37. What were the major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?
38. Discuss the immediate and long-term results of the Great War.
39. How did WWI affect civilians on the home front?
40. Explain the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Why did it leave many groups feeling betrayed?
41. What was the Bosnian Crisis of 1908 and how did it affect the coming of the First World War?
Totalitarianism
Terms
1. Benito Mussolini
2. Francisco Franco
3. Adolph Hitler
4. Emperor Hirohito
5. Weimar Republic
6. Anti-Semitism
7. Treaty of Versailles
8. Reparations
9. Economic Depression
10. Genocide
11. Death Marches
12. Scapegoat
13. Final Solution
14. Euthanasia
15. Eugenics
16. Dehumanize
17. Kristallnacht
18. Einsatzgruppen
19. Gestapo
20. Auschwitz
21. Mein Kampf
22. Nuremberg Laws
23. Ghettoization
24. Indoctrination
25. Liberation
26. Josef Stalin
27. Great Purge
28. censorship
29. Propaganda
30. Collectivization
31. Five Year Plans
32. Gulag
33. NKVD or KGB
34. Prejudice
35. Pogrom
Questions
36. What economic, social, and political conditions resulted in the rise of the totalitarian Nazi regime in
Germany?
37. Why were the Jews targeted for persecution? Which other groups were targeted by the Nazis?
38. Please discuss the evolutionary process (or the different stages) of the Holocaust. Explain each stage,
its intended purpose, and the way that it eliminated resistance to future stages.
39. Please discuss the tactics Stalin used to create and maintain a totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union.
40. What is fascism? What characteristics are common to fascist governments?
41. How did Benito Mussolini come to power in Italy?
French Revolution
Terms
1. Louis XVI
2. Marie Antoinette
3. National Assembly
4. Tennis Court Oath
5. Great Fear
6. guillotine
7. Maximilian Robespierre
8. Committee of Public Safety
9. Reign of Terror
10. Napoleon Bonaparte
11. Estates General
12. First Estate
13. Second Estate
14. Third Estate
Questions.
15. What conditions and events pushed France into revolution? Explain in full.
16. What was the Enlightenment and how did it influence the rise of world revolutions?
17. Why were members of the Third Estate dissatisfied with their way of life under the Old Regime?
18. What was the Reign of Terror? How did it end?
19. Why did the French people turn to Napoleon after ridding themselves of a monarch?
20. What three mistakes did Napoleon make that led to his ultimate defeat?
Russian Revolution
1. Czar Nicholas II
2. Bloody Sunday
3. Duma
4. New Economic Policy (NEP)
5. Rasputin
6. Soviets
7. Bolsheviks
8. Trans-Siberian Railway
9. Russo-Japanese War
10. Josef Stalin
11. Provisional government
12. Pogrom
13. Communism
14. Bourgeoisie
15. V.I. Lenin
16. Propaganda
17. Censorship
18. Proletariat
19. Leon Trotsky
Short Answer Questions:
20. What are the 3 principles that held Russia during Alexander III’s rule? Explain each principle.
21. Please discuss Karl Marx and his theory of communism.
22. What conditions and events pushed Russia into revolution? Explain in full.
23. What role did World War I play in the downfall of the Czar?
24. Discuss the March Revolution in Russia.
25. Discuss the November Revolution in Russia.
26. Discuss the life of Russian peasants and urban workers. Why did many peasants begin migrating to
cities?
27. Explain the Five Year Plans; what they are, the goals behind them, and consequences of them.
28. Explain collectivization; the process, the goals of collectivization, and consequences.
29. Discuss three tools/weapons of a totalitarian state. Explain/Define the tool/weapon and give a
specific example within the Soviet totalitarian system.
30. In your opinion, is Lenin or Stalin more responsible for creating the brutal, totalitarian state in the
Soviet Union? Use specific examples in your argument.
Arab Spring
1. What is the Arab Spring? What are the causes of the Arab Spring?