Homework due 10/20
1. What two far-reaching events took place in 1789?
2. How did the French Revolution compare to the American Revolution?
3. Describe the 3 estates of French society before the revolution.
4. Give a definition of the term bourgeoisie.
5. State the immediate cause of the French Revolution
6. How did most members of the Third Estate want to fix France’s financial problems?
7. What dramatic event took place on July 14, 1789, which saves the 3rd Estate from the king’s forces?
8. What did the National Assembly do in response to peasant revolts and fear of foreign troops?
9. What name did the National Assembly give to its charter of basic liberties?
10. Why did Olympia de Gouges write a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?
11. The National Assembly took what action to control the Catholic Church?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
2nd Semester Study Guide
Chapter 9
1. What was the goal of Stalin’s 5-Year Plan?
2. What is Fascism? Who started it?
3. What is Communism? What characterizes a communist country?
4. Who was Benito Musolini? How did he gain power?
5. Why did people accept Hitler’s Nazi party?
6. What was Hitler’s goal?
7. What was Lenin’s New Economic Policy?
8. What caused the Great Depression?
9. What is a totalitarian state?
Define: Dawes Plan
Blackshirts
Aryan
Inflation
Chapter 10
10. Where was Chiang Kai-Shek from? What policies did he implement to improve his country?
11. Who was Mao Zedong? What group did he head? What did he do to protect his people?
12. What was the Balfour Declaration? Why was it important?
13. What changes did Shah Palavi make in Persia?
14. Who did the Ottoman Turks massacre? Why?
15. What type of resistance did Gandhi practice? In what ways did he encourage his followers to protest British laws?
16. What area did Japan invade? Why?
Chapter 11
17. What is appeasement? Why did Great Britain and other countries decide to try it?
18. How did World War Two start?
19. How was Hitler able to take control of Germany? What role did the Enabling Act play?
20. What is trench warfare?
21. Why is WWII considered a total war?
22. What new type of battle did Hitler use? What plan of attack did he develop to defeat his European enemies?
23. Why did Hitler use submarines? What did that accomplish? What was the result of the battle in the Atlantic?
24. What was the turning point in the Pacific? In Europe? What happened in each battle?
25. What was accomplished at the Potsdam and Yalta conferences? What did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Truman want?
26. How did Hitler’s anti-Semetic beliefs become the policy of Germany? What laws were passed to discriminate against the Jewish people in Germany?
27. What role did the Einsatzgruppen play? What was the Final Solution?
28. What happened to Germany as a result of the war?
Chapter 12
29. What was the Marshall Plan?
30. What Was the Truman Doctrine?
31. How did World War II lead to the spread of communism?
32. What was the Iron Curtain? Who created it?
33. Why did the Berlin Wall go up? What problems did post-WWII Germany face?
34. What was the Cold War?
35. What was the US’s policy towards communism?
36. What is détente? What ended the period of détente between the U.S. and the USSR?
37. What was the Bay of Pigs?
38. What was the Official Languages Act? Why was it passed?
Chapter 13
39. Who was Lech Walesa? What did he do for his country?
40. Who was Nicolae Ceausescu?
41. Which communist country was not tied to the Soviet Union?
42. Why was there conflict in Kosovo?
43. What happened in Bosnia?
Chapter 22
44. What is collectivization?
45. What was Mexico’s only political party for 100 years? How did other groups get a say in the government.
46. What were Latin America’s economic problems?
47. What general trends could be seen in Latin America after WWII?
48. What kind of government did Nicaragua have? Who controlled the country, and why were they challenged?
49. What was the Falkland Island war?
50. What is the Shining Path? What was its goal?
Chapter 23
51. What changes occurred in Iran?
52. When was Israel created? What problems has it faced?
53. What were the causes of the Iran-Iraq conflict?
54. What caused economic problems in Africa?
55. What was the Six-Day War? What happened as a result?
56. What is Pan-Africanism?
57. What were the Camp David Accords? What did they accomplish?
58. Describe the Suez Crisis.
59. What caused the great diversity in language and culture in many African countries?
Essays
1. How have WWII and the Holocaust affected the modern world? Provide at least 3 examples from specific countries and groups.
2. How did advances in technology and thought change the way wars were fought between WWI and WWII?
4. Why has there been longstanding conflict in Israel? How have the problems between Palestinians and Israelis developed since Israel’s creation?
5. What were the three major conflicts of the Cold War? Describe each and explain how it contributed to the continuation of the Cold War.
1. What was the goal of Stalin’s 5-Year Plan?
2. What is Fascism? Who started it?
3. What is Communism? What characterizes a communist country?
4. Who was Benito Musolini? How did he gain power?
5. Why did people accept Hitler’s Nazi party?
6. What was Hitler’s goal?
7. What was Lenin’s New Economic Policy?
8. What caused the Great Depression?
9. What is a totalitarian state?
Define: Dawes Plan
Blackshirts
Aryan
Inflation
Chapter 10
10. Where was Chiang Kai-Shek from? What policies did he implement to improve his country?
11. Who was Mao Zedong? What group did he head? What did he do to protect his people?
12. What was the Balfour Declaration? Why was it important?
13. What changes did Shah Palavi make in Persia?
14. Who did the Ottoman Turks massacre? Why?
15. What type of resistance did Gandhi practice? In what ways did he encourage his followers to protest British laws?
16. What area did Japan invade? Why?
Chapter 11
17. What is appeasement? Why did Great Britain and other countries decide to try it?
18. How did World War Two start?
19. How was Hitler able to take control of Germany? What role did the Enabling Act play?
20. What is trench warfare?
21. Why is WWII considered a total war?
22. What new type of battle did Hitler use? What plan of attack did he develop to defeat his European enemies?
23. Why did Hitler use submarines? What did that accomplish? What was the result of the battle in the Atlantic?
24. What was the turning point in the Pacific? In Europe? What happened in each battle?
25. What was accomplished at the Potsdam and Yalta conferences? What did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Truman want?
26. How did Hitler’s anti-Semetic beliefs become the policy of Germany? What laws were passed to discriminate against the Jewish people in Germany?
27. What role did the Einsatzgruppen play? What was the Final Solution?
28. What happened to Germany as a result of the war?
Chapter 12
29. What was the Marshall Plan?
30. What Was the Truman Doctrine?
31. How did World War II lead to the spread of communism?
32. What was the Iron Curtain? Who created it?
33. Why did the Berlin Wall go up? What problems did post-WWII Germany face?
34. What was the Cold War?
35. What was the US’s policy towards communism?
36. What is détente? What ended the period of détente between the U.S. and the USSR?
37. What was the Bay of Pigs?
38. What was the Official Languages Act? Why was it passed?
Chapter 13
39. Who was Lech Walesa? What did he do for his country?
40. Who was Nicolae Ceausescu?
41. Which communist country was not tied to the Soviet Union?
42. Why was there conflict in Kosovo?
43. What happened in Bosnia?
Chapter 22
44. What is collectivization?
45. What was Mexico’s only political party for 100 years? How did other groups get a say in the government.
46. What were Latin America’s economic problems?
47. What general trends could be seen in Latin America after WWII?
48. What kind of government did Nicaragua have? Who controlled the country, and why were they challenged?
49. What was the Falkland Island war?
50. What is the Shining Path? What was its goal?
Chapter 23
51. What changes occurred in Iran?
52. When was Israel created? What problems has it faced?
53. What were the causes of the Iran-Iraq conflict?
54. What caused economic problems in Africa?
55. What was the Six-Day War? What happened as a result?
56. What is Pan-Africanism?
57. What were the Camp David Accords? What did they accomplish?
58. Describe the Suez Crisis.
59. What caused the great diversity in language and culture in many African countries?
Essays
1. How have WWII and the Holocaust affected the modern world? Provide at least 3 examples from specific countries and groups.
2. How did advances in technology and thought change the way wars were fought between WWI and WWII?
4. Why has there been longstanding conflict in Israel? How have the problems between Palestinians and Israelis developed since Israel’s creation?
5. What were the three major conflicts of the Cold War? Describe each and explain how it contributed to the continuation of the Cold War.
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"?
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"?
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