Agenda & Homework

10/2 - Read Ch 3 section 2 and take notes

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Second Semester Study Guide

Chapter 9

  • fascism
  • Aryan
  • Nazi
  • Kristallnacht
  • Inflation
  • Totalitarian
  • Enabling Act
  • Great Depression
  • Five Year Plan
    • With which groups did Mussolini compromise
    • What were Hitler’s political theories based on
    • Why did people accept Hitler and the Nazi party

Chapter 10

  • New Life Movement
  • Secular
  • Civil disobedience
  • Little Red Book
  • Armenian Genocide
    • Mao Zedong
    • Reza Shah Palavi
    • Chiang Kai-Shek
    • Gandhi
    • Nehru
      • What new country did Persia become after WWI
      • How did Gandhi encourage the Indian people to protest

Chapter 11

  • genocide
  • kamikaze
  • einsatzgruppen
  • ghettos
  • blitzkrieg
  • Schlieffen Plan
  • Appeasement
  • Total war
    • What event started WWII
    • What happened on 12/1/41
    • The turning point in Europe
    • The turning point in the Pacific
    • Which groups were victims of the Holocaust
    • What did Truman ask for at Potsdam

Chapter 12

  • Marshall Plan
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Iron Curtain
  • Bay of Pigs
      • What happened to Germany after the war
      • Why was the Berlin Wall built

Chapter 13

  • détente
  • Official Languages Act
    • Lech Walesa
    • Krushchev
    • Nicolae Ceausescu
    • Slobodan Milosevic
      • What country did the USSR invade in 1979
      • How did the USA protest this invasion
      • Who supported Walesa’s trade union
      • Why was there a conflict between Serbia and Kosovo

Chapter 14

  • oligarchy
  • guerrilla tactics
  • PRI
  • Shining Path
  • authoritarianism
    • Fidel Castro
    • Somozas
      • What made the economic problems in Latin America worse
      • Why did Argentina invade the Falkland Islands

Chapter 15

  • Pan Africanism
  • Camp David Accords
  • Six Day War
    • Gamal Abdel Nassar
      • First African country to gain independence?
      • What has kept the nations of Africa from reaching economic prosperity
      • Why has there been tension between Iran and Iraq
      • Why do many African nations have many different ethnic and territorial groups in them today
Essay Questions be prepared to answer multiple topics
  • How have WWII and the Holocaust affected the modern world/ Provide at least three specific examples.
  • How did advances in technology and thought change the way wars were fought between WWI and WWII? How have they changed since WWII?
  • Why has there been a longstanding conflict in Israel? How have the problems between Palestinians and Israelis developed since Israel’s creation?
  • Compare and contrast the ways that Latin American and African countries have fared since their independence. Give examples
  • What were the major conflicts of the Cold War? Describe each and explain how it contributed to the continuation of the Cold War.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

20-1 Homework

1. How did Stalin and the capitalist West regard each other after WWII?
2. What did the United States and Great Britain believe should happen with the liberated nations of Eastern Europe?
3. After freeing Eastern Europe from the Nazis, what course of action did the Soviet Army follow?
4. What was the Truman Doctrine?
5. Describe the program known as the Marshall Plan.
6. What two events in 1949 caused great fear in the United States?
7. What did the members of NATO agree to do?
8. How did the Korean War begin in 1950?
9. What organization was formed to stem Soviet aggression in the East?
10. How did Krushchev seek to stop the flow of refugees out of East Germany to West Berlin?
11. Name the event in 1962 that brought the world close to nuclear war.
12. What was the "domino theory"?