Latin America after WWII Study Guide

Be able to identify the country of origin and important facts about the following people, groups, and terms
* Fidel Castro
* Salvadore Allende
* Augusto Pinochet
* Jose Duarte
* Juan Peron
* Che Guevara
* Manuel Noriega
* Juan Alvarado
* Alejandro Toledo
*cooperative
* Shining Path
* PRI
* John F Kennedy
* Sandinistas
* Falkland Island conflict
* Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

Essay questions
* In what ways have Cuba's fortunes been influenced by the Soviet Union?
* What types of social problems have led to the recent move towards democratic governments in Latin American countries?
* What factors led to the PRI's loss of political power in Mexico?
* What types of policies have characterized the rule of Latin American military governments since 1945? Discuss specific examples
* What effects did foreign involvement in Latin America have on different countries? Did it make things bette or worse?

First Semester Study Guide

Be able to discuss the definition and importance of each of the following

For each word/person/event, make sure you know:  what it is, what they believed, what happened, how it is important

Chapter 2

James 1

James II

Charles I

Charles II

Divine right of kings

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ideas

John Locke

Laissez-faire

Who is the father of rationalism?

Chapter 3

Committee of Public Safety

Maximillian Robespierre

Constitution of 1791

De-Christianization

Reign of Terror

Continental System

Napoleon

What led to Napoleon’s defeat?

2 reasons Napoleon’s empire collapsed

Chapter 4

Factory system

Reasons the Industrial Revolution started in England

Key inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Social change during the Industrial Revolution

Resources/elements used in the 1^st Industrial Revolution

New methods of transportation

Principle of intervention

Ministerial responsibility

Chapter 5

2 forms of Marxism

Resources/elements used in the 2^nd Industrial Revolution

Triple Alliance

Nationalism in the USA

Change in the Austrain Empire

Nationalism

Chapter 6

White Man’s Burden

Boers

Indian National Congress

Which countries remained independent

Direct rule

Indirect rule

Mohandas Gandhi

mestizos

Chapter 7

Open Door Policy

Tai Ping Rebellion

Self-strengthening

Meji Restoration

Short answer

What other events in history inspired the French Revolution?

Essay

How have both the First and Second Industrial Revolutions changed the way we lived today?  What effect did they have on the way people lived and worked?

What was Imperialism?  How did colonizing of areas affect the people living in them?  Write an essay that outlines the positive and negative effects of 19^th century imperialism. 

Describe the events that occurred during the French Revolution and how they affected the society and government. What role did women play in the Revolution?

Chapter 2 Study Guide

Know these people:
Isaac Newton
Voltaire
John Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Charles I
James I
George III
Thomas Jefferson
Oliver Cromwell
Rump Parliament
Framers

Know these documents:
Declaration of Grievances
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights (English)
Articles of Confideracy
Act of Supremacy
Social Contract

Know these events:
Why did William and Mary take over England?
Why did the Framers not want a strong central government?
Where did the Enlightenment start?
Whose ideas are in the Declaration of Independence?
Whose ideas are in the Constitution?

CHapter 8 Study guide

define:
mobilization
militarism
conscription
propaganda
trench warfare
zepplin
war of attrition
armistice
reparations
Duma
soviets
war communism
Bolsheviks
mandate system
LLoyd George
Georges Clemenceau
the Black Hand


*what was considered an act of war?
*why did the Allies join WWI?
*WHo wanted democracy and peace?
How did Russia get of WWI?
Who led the Bolsheviks?
Why didn't Germany like the treaty of Versailles?
WHat was the Schlieffen Plan?
WHere was the Battle of Marne?
What was the Cheka supposed to do?
What was the Treaty of Versailles?

Essays: trench warfare
Schlieffen Plan

End of the Cold War Study guide

Define the following terms:
-detente
-perestroika
-state sponsored terrorism
-budget deficit
-"evil empire"
-Brezhnev Doctrine

Who were:
-Milosevic
-Honecker
-Kohl
-Walesa
-Yeltsin
-Brezhnev
-Carter

Which groups were fighting in Ireland? Why?
What happened in 1979? (2 things)
Why did Western Europe's economy decline?

Essay questions:
-Describe the 'ethnic cleansing' that took place in Bosnia and Kosovo. Why was Czechoslovakia able to split peacefully while Yugoslavia was not?
-Describe the types of terrorism and the methods that terrorists use to make their points.

Chapter 10 Review

*What empire collapsed after WWI because of nationalism and foreign involvement?
–The Ottoman Empire
•What is genocide?
–The deliberate mass murder of a particular group
•Who did the Ottomans target for genocide?
–The Armenians
•What country did the Ottoman Empire become?
–Turkey
•Who changed Persia into Iran?
–Reza Shah Pahlavi
•What did Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) want to do to Turkey?
–Modernize it
•Who wanted to create a united Arab state?
–Ibn Saud
•What was the Balfour Declaration?
–A British document that gave their support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine
•Who led the movement for Pan-Africanism?
–Marcus Garvey
•What is Pan Africanism?
–Unity for all Africans
•What methods did Gandhi use to work for independence?
–Nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience
•What was the Salt March?
–Gandhi’ march to the sea to protest British taxes and salt restrictions
•Why were Africans upset after WWI?
–They hoped that they would get their independence
•What was the Good Neighbor Policy?
–US policy that rejected the use of military force in Latin America
•What effect did the Great Depression have on the Latin American economy?
–The economy suffered because no one was buying their goods
•What is an oligarchy?
–Government where a small group controls the government
•What is guerilla warfare?
–It uses tactics like sabotage and sneak attacks
•Who was Getulio Vargas?
–The leader of Brazil, he became a dictator
•What is PEMEX?
–The national oil company of Mexico
•What did Lazaro Cardenas do for Mexico?
–He gave land to the peasants, took back the oil fields, and made good changes
•Who was an artist that used his art to depict Mexico’s past?
–Diego Rivera
•Who was Hipolito Irigoyen?
–President of Argentina
•What is a zaibatsu?
–Large Japanese companies that controlled everything
•What is the Shanghai Massacre?
–The killing of thousands of Communists in Shanghai
•Who ordered the Shanghai Massacre?
–Chiang Kai-Shek
•Who was the leader of the Communist party in China?
–Mao Zedong
•Who did Mao believe would lead the revolution?
–The peasants
•Essays:
–Describe the rise of Militarism in Japan in the 1930’s
–Describe the impact of the Great Depression on Latin America

Chapter 2 Review

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW

English Civil War

• Divine Rights of Kings

• Charles I: what happened to him?

• Cavaliers vs. Roundheads: who were they?

• Cromwell: what kind of leader was he – how did he take over England?

• Rump Parliament: what was it?

• Military dictatorship

Glorious Revolution

• Charles II

• James II

• William and Mary – why did they take power?

• Bill of Rights what was it?

• Constitutional monarchy – what document created one?

The Enlightenment

• Beccaria and his thoughts on crime and punishment

• Rousseau and the social contract

• Montesquieu and the separation of powers – how his work influenced later governments

• Locke and the idea of natural rights

– His blank mind theory

• Where did the Enlightenment start?

• Wollstonecraft –what did she do?

• Laissez-faire

• absolutism

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris –what did the new Americans get?

Essay Questions:
1. Describe the major ideas of the Enlightenment in detail
2. Describe John Locke's theories on knowledge
3. How did the Enlightenment ideas influence the colonists and contribute to both the American Revolution and the creation of the new government?

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.