Download world history 2nd Semester Final Review 2015

2nd Semester World History Final Review
Rise of Totalitarianism: 14. 1 &2, 15. 2&3
What are the causes of Russian Revolution?
Why would the peasants support the Bolsheviks?
Define gulag
What event happened after Russian Revolution?
Compare French and Russian Revolution
Describe political situation after Lenin’s death
Describe life under Stalin
What was purpose of Stalin’s 5 year plans ?
Define command economy
What was the result of collectivization?
Why did 5 million Ukrainian die?
What was the purpose of Stalin’s purges?
What political trait does Germany, Italy and USSR
share?
Describe economic conditions during 1930s
Explain Hitler’s to power
Explain communism
Explain fascism
What are the differences and similarities between
communism and fascism?
Why did totalitarian governments gain power in
Europe?
World War II: 15.4 & 16.1-5
Why did Germany, Italy and Japan want territory?
What did Japan use to justify empire building?
Explain Japan’s foreign policy of 1930s
What was Mussolini’s main goal?
In 1938, what country did Hitler annex?
Explain Nazi-Soviet (Hitler-Stalin) Pact (what were the
benefits for both countries?)
What happened in China (1937) after invasion of Japan?
What African nation did Mussolini invade?
Describe the relationship between major Allied powers
Explain appeasement
Why didn’t US and Great Britain not respond to Hitler’s
territorial gains?
What country was an Isolationist and why?
Explain blitzkrieg
What was outcome of the Battle of Britain?
What is the importance of the Battle of Midway?
Why did the Germans lose Battle of Stalingrad?
What is the importance of Battle of Bulge?
What directions was Germany attacked in 1945?
Who led Allied troops in Europe?
How are Hitler and Bismarck similar?
Why was Winston Churchill important?
Who was supreme commander of Western Allied
forces?
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
Who led victorious troops in El Alamein?
Where did Stalin want Britain and US to invade?
Explain Holocaust
What are Nuremberg Laws?
What is Kristallnacht?
Explain genocide
What was the Final Solution?
What was the second largest group killed by Nazis?
What were the results of Yalta Conference?
Cold War: 17. All, 14.1, 18.4, 19.4&5
How were communist governments established in
Eastern Europe?
What opposition created Western Europe to unite?
What created conflict between US and USSR?
Explain Berlin Airlift
Explain how communism spread
Why did Asian nations become independent?
Describe political situation in Africa after WWII
Why did US support south Vietnam and Contras?
Why was US interested in Southeast Asia during 1960s
and 70s?
Explain Truman Doctrine
Explain Marshall Plan
Why did US support Augusto Pinochet?
What was Great Leap Forward?
What was Cultural Revolution?
Explain Tiananmen Square and results
Who supported Mao during Chinese Civil War?
Why did USSR invade Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
Which area does former USSR influence?
How did USSR respond to Prague Spring?
What event marks fall of USSR?
Explain Balfour Declaration
What was result of Six Day war in 1967?
Who created Israel?
Why did Great Britain and France join Israel against
Egypt?
2nd Semester World History Final Review
What is the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
What was the result of Six Day War?
How did USSR begin to change command economy?
What is private ownership?
Define perestroika
Define glasnost
Why did the USSR join arms race?
What is difference between League of Nations and
United Nations?
What is SEATO?
What is goal of OAS?
What is NATO? Why was it formed?
Area Studies 18:1-5, 19:1
1989 Chinese protests and why?
Define recession
Where has Chinese migration occurred
What is purpose of World Trade organization
Parts of democratic nation
Why do Chinese nations want democracy?