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.