2nd semester Day 10 and Day 11: Study for Final Exam

There is no new HW. We will be doing country projects in class. Study for your Final Exam which is on Wednesday 7/22, and complete your study guide.

2nd semester Day 7-9 - The Cold War Era

Homework Questions for Wednesday 7/15, Thursday 7/16 and Monday 7/20. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 7/21.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Superpowers
Anti-ballistic Missiles
Ronald Regan
De'tente
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Containment
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Mutually Assured Destruction
SALT I
SALT II
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
START Treaty
Afghanistan
Mao Zedong
SEATO
CENTO
Cuban Missile Crisis
Duck and Cover Drills
HUAC
Joseph McCarthy
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Jiang Jieshi
Chinese Civil War
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
38th parallel
17th parallel
DMZ
Berlin Airlift
Checkpoint Charlie
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Dienbienphu
Domino Theory
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Viet Cong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
POW's and MIA's
Paris Peace Accord
Saigon
Vietnamization
Mikhail Gorbachev
Berlin Wall
Glasnost
Perestroika
Lech Walesa
Solidartiy
Hugarian Revolt 1956
Vaclav Havel
Nicolae Ceausescu
Iron Curtain
Capitalism
Communism
Douglas MacArthur
Brinkmanship
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
U-2 Conference
Red Guards
Reading Questions:
1. What was the purpose in forming NATO?
2. What was the goal behind the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
3. What were the goals behind NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
4. How did Mao Zedong transform China?
5. What was the Goal of the Cultural Revolution?
6. What role did the U.S. play in the Korean War?
7. How did Vietnam become divided?
8. What was the Khmer Rouge's plan for Cambodia?
9. How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?
10. Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?

2nd Semester - Days 4-6: World War II

Homework Questions for Thursday 7/9 through Tuesday 7/14. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 7/15.

Key term: World War II

Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Neutrality Acts
Anschluss
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nonaggression pact
Munich Conference
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
Final Solution
Maginot Line
Concentration camps
Holocaust
Nazis
“Rosie the Riveter”
Island-hopping strategy
Kamikaze
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Theater
Pacific Theater
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
Hirohito
Joseph Stalin
Neville Chamberlain
General Erwin Rommel
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Douglas MacArthur
Operation Barbarossa
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Stalingrad
Bataan Death March
Battle for Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Manhattan Project
Yalta Conference

Reading Questions

1. How did the reaction of the League of Nations to the Rape of Nanjing further push nations toward war?
2. How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause WWII?
3. How did the policy of appeasement of the Western democracies empower Hitler?
4. Why were the Western democracies so quick to appease Hitler rather than Stalin?
5. List the acts of German aggression between March 1938 and September of 1939.
6. Which regions were attacked and occupied by the Axis powers?
7. What was life like under German occupation?
8. What were the strengths and weaknesses of Hitler's blitzkrieg?
9. How did Operation Barbarossa change the war?
10. How did Hitler execute his "Final Solution" and what was the final result of his attempt?
11. Why did Japanese leaders target the United States as an enemy?
12. How did the Allies begin to push back the Axis powers on four fronts? (Identify and describe the tactics used on each front.)
13. How did the D-Day invasion mark the beginning of the end for Germany in World War II?
14. What strategy did the Allies use to put Japan on the defensive?
15. What was the Manhattan Project and how did it change the course of the war?
16. What factors besides ending the war in the Pacific might have contributed to President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb?
17. What conflicts will emerge between the former Allies at the conclusion of WWII? Why?

2nd Semester Day 2 and Day 3 - Totalitarian States

Key Word: Totalitarian States

Homework Questions for Tuesday 7/7 and Wednesday 7/8. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 7/9.

Maginot Line
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Great Depression
Disarmament
The Red Scare
Dictator
The Roaring Twenties
Flapper
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Sigmund Freud
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Henri Matisse
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Abstract
Surrealism
Totalitarian state
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Black Shirts
March on Rome
Il Duce
Propaganda
Joseph Stalin
Communism
Five-Year Plans
Command economy
Collectives
Kulaks
Gulag
The Great Purge
Censorship
Russification
Atheism
Adolf Hitler
Weimar Republic
Mein Kampf
Lebensraum
Fuhrer
Third Reich
Gestapo
Nuremberg Laws
Aryans
Kristallnacht
Final Solution
Nazi youth
Nazi Party



1. What political and economic challenges did the Western World face in the 1920s and 1930s?
2. How did the United States, the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany and Japan deal with their various political and economic problems?
3. How did scientific discoveries in the 1920s change people’s views of the world?
4. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect the relationship between Britain and France?
5. What was the purpose of the Maginot Line?
6. What was the chief weakness of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
7. How was Mussolini able to rise to power?
8. How did Mussolini keep control of Italy’s government, economy and people? Provide one example of each.
9. What were the goals and results of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans?
10. What methods did Stalin use to create a totalitarian state?
11. How did Hitler and the Nazi Party establish and maintain a totalitarian government in Germany?
12. Describe the Nazi party’s ideology and Hitler’s plans for ruling Germany and where are many of those plans found?
13. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht in Germany?
14. How did the Nazi party maintain control of Germany?
15. Why were ultranationalists in Japan demanding expansion in the 1920s? (p. 412)
16. What were the circumstances surrounding the seizure of Manchuria?
17. Compare and contrast the ideologies of fascism, communism and Nazism.

2nd Semester Day 1: Russian Revolution

Homework Questions for Monday 7/6. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 7/7.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Proletariat
soviet
Cheka
Commissar
March Revolution
Bloody Sunday
Czar
Nicholas II
Alexandra
Rasputin
Duma
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
V.I. Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Abdicate
USSR
New Economic Policy or NEP
Stalin

Reading Questions:
1. What were the causes of the March revolution?
2. How did the czar's autocratic policies toward the people lead to social unrest?
3. How did Lenin adapt Marxism to conditions in Russia?
4. What were the causes and effects of the civil war in Russia?
5. Why did Lenin compromise between the ideas of capitalism and communism in creating the NEP?
6. How did two revolutions and a civil war bring about communist control of Russia?
7.What started the March revolution?
8. Why did Germany want Lenin to return to Russia in 1917?
9. How did the government and the economy under Lenin differ from "pure" communism?
10. How did WWI help bring about the Russian revolution?

Day 11-Final Day of 1st Semester

Prepare for your Final Exam. Have a good 4th of July Holiday, we'll start 2nd semester on Monday July 6.

Day 10- WWI Con't

Finish HW from Day 9 and study for Final Exam.

Day 9-World War I

Homework Questions for Monday 6/29. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 7/1.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Militarism
Alsace and Lorraine
Ultimatum
Mobilize
Neutrality
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism
Assassination
Serbian
Black Hand
Gavrilo Princip
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Stalemate
Zeppelin
U-boat
Convoy
Dardanelles
Western Front
Eastern Front
Allies
Central Powers
Schlieffen Plan
Battle of the Marne
Verdun
Tannenburg
Trench Warfare
Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide
Total War
Conscription
Lusitania
Propaganda
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
President Wilson
14 points
Self-Determination
League of Nations
Armistice
Reparations
Collective Security
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Reading Questions:
1. What caused WWI and what effect did it have on world events?
2. Why did European countries form alliances?
3. Why was the Balkan peninsula known as the "Powder Keg" of Europe?
4. How did Austria react to the assassination of the archduke?
5. How and where was WWI fought?
6. Why did the Turks dislike the Armenians?
7. Describe three ways in which technology affected WWI?
8. How did Nationalism within the Ottoman Empire come into play during the war?
9. How did the Allies win WWI?
10. What measures did wartime government take to control public opinion?
11. What impact did wartime failures have on Russia?
12. Explain why America got involved in WWI?
13. Why was the American entry into the war a turning point?
14. Describe the conditions in Europe after WWI?
15. Explain how the Treaty of Versailles treated Germany?
16. How might the Treaty of Versailles have started WWII?

DAY 8- Imperialism Con't

NO new homework for today.

Just Finish your Imperialism Project.

Day 7: The Age of Imperialism

Homework Questions for Wednesday 6/24. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 6/25.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Imperialism
Racism
Berlin Conference
Social Darwinism
Sphere of Influence
Protectorate
Colony
Paternalism
Economic Imperialism
Menelik II
Boer War
Shaka Zulu
Missionaries
King Leopold II
Scramble for Africa
Ethiopia
Ottoman Empire
Armenia
Armenian Genocide
Suez Canal
Muhammad Ali
Sepoy
"jewel in the crown"
Sepoy Mutiny
Ram Mohun Roy
Hindu
Muslim
Opium War
Boxer Rebellion
Extraterritoriality
Open Door Policy
John Hayes

Reading Questions:
1. What are the European motives of Imperialism?
2. How was Imperialsim able to spread through Africa and Asia so quickly?
3. What are the forms of Imperial Rule?
4. What factors shaped each of the main regions of Africa? (North, South, East, West)
5. How did Ethiopia resist European rule?
6. How was the economy of India transformed by the British?
7. How did the scramble for African colonies begin?
8. How did the Berlin Conference decide the fate of Africa?
9. What caused the sepoy Mutiny?
10. How was western imperialism a source of stress in muslim regions of the world?
11. How did Egypt fall into the hands of British Control?
12. How did westerns get trading rights in China in the 1800's?
13. Why were natural resources of Africa and Asia important to Europeans in the 1800's?
14. How did western industrial powers gain global empires?

Day 6 - The Industrial Revolution

Homework Questions for Tuesday 6/23. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 6/24.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural revolution
James Watt
enclosures
industrialization
immigration
capital
enterprise
entrepreneur
textile industry
Eli Whitney
flying shuttle
water frame
spinning jenny
transportation revolution
Liverpool
Manchester
tenement
urbanization
labor union
Thomas Malthus
Jeremy Bentham
utilitarianism
socialism
communism
Utopianism
Robert Owen
Karl Marx
Henry Bessemer
Thomas Edison
interchangeable parts
assembly line
stock
corporation
population boom
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
middle class
standard of living
cult of domesticity
women's suffrage
Social Darwinism
romanticism
realism
impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet


Reading Questions
1. How did the Agricultural Revolution lead to the Industrial revolution?
2. Identify 3 of the main causes that led to the population boom of the late 1700s.
3. Describe the 4 factors that led Britain to be the first country to industrialize.
4. How did the Industrial Revolution transform the textile industry. Cite specific examples.
5. Compare and contrast the ideas of Karl Marx and Adam Smith.
6. How did the Industrial Revolution improve city life?
7. How did the Industrial Revolution make city life worse?
8. How did the Industrial Revolution influence the creation of the middle class?
9. How did artists and others respond to industrialization?
10. What were the technological, social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?

Day 5- Napoleon and Latin American Revolutions

Homework Questions for Monday 6/22. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 6/23.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coup d' Etat
Plebiscite
Napoleonic Code
The Directory
Continental System
Battle of Trafalgar
Blockade
Scorched Earth Policy
Invasion of Russia
Peninsular War
Waterloo
St. Helena
Hundred Days
Elba
Congress of Vienna
Abdicated
Concert of Europe
Legitimacy
Nationalism
peninsulare
creole
mestizo
mulatto
Simon Bolivar
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Father Jose Morelos
Jose de San Martin
Dom Pedro
abolition


Reading Questions
1. Explain how Napoleon rose to power.
2. Describe the three mistakes that led to Napoleon's downfall.
3. How did geography both help and hurt Britain during it's war with France?
4. What reforms did Napoleon introduce to France during his reign of power?
5. How did growing feelings of nationalism in Europe both help and hurt Napoleon?
6. Who was part of the Quadruple Alliance and what was it's purpose?
7. Explain the chief goal and outcome of the Congress of Vienna.
8. From France's point of view, were the decisions made at the Congress of Vienna fair?
9. How did the Congress assure peace in Europe for the next 38 years?

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Day 4- The French Revolution

Homework Questions for Thursday 6/18. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Monday 6/22.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
French Revolution
Old Regime
Estates
bourgeoisie
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Estates General
Tennis Court Oath
Maximilien Robespierre
Bastille
Guillotine
Jean Paul Marat
Declaration of Rights of Man
Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Jacobins
Napoleon Bonaparte

Reading Questions:
1. What led to the storming of the Bastille, and therefore, to the start of the French Revolution?
2. What economic troubles did France face in 1789?
3. What actions did delegates of the Third Estate take when the Estates-General met in 1789?
4. What political and social reforms did the National Assembly institute in the first stage of the French Revolution?
5. How was the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen similar to the American Declaration of Independence?
6. What did Marie Antoinette represent to the people of France?
7. What role did Marat play in the French Revolution?
8. What events occurred during the radical phase of the French Revolution?
9. How did Robespierre justify the use of terror during the Reign of Terror?
10. What were the goals of the Committee of Public Safety?
11. Summarize the goals and actions of the Jacobins?
12. What changes occurred in France because of the French Revolution?

Day 3 - Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

Homework Questions for Wednesday 6/17. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 6/18.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Scientific Revolution
Geocentric Theory
Heliocentric Theory
Galileo Galilei
scientific method
Isaac Newton
Edward Jenner
innoculation
The Enlightenment
Social Contract
John Locke
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
natural law
natural rights
separation of powers
checks and balances
Diderot's Encyclopedia
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
salons
censorship
enlightened despots
popular sovereignty
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
federal republic
Bill of Rights
United States Constitution

Reading Questions:
1. What effects did Enlightenment philosophers have on government and society?
2. Why might institutions of authority tend to reject new ideas?
3. How did Hobbes and Locke differ in their views on the role of government?
4. Explain the meaning of Voltaire's quote, "I do not agree with a word you say but, will defend to the death your right to say it."
5. Explain separation of powers and checks and balances in relationship to American government.
6. Why was the issue of education so important to Wollstonecraft?
7. Explain, in your own words, Rousseau's social contract theory.
8. In what way were enlightened depots less than true reformers?
9. How did John Locke's enlightened ideas influence the founding fathers?
10. How does the Bill of Rights reflect key enlightenment ideas?
11. Explain the following ideas: Federalism, Separation of Powers, Popular Sovereignty, and Individual Rights?

Day 2 - Renaissance and Reformation

Homework Questions for Tuesday 6/16. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 6/17.

Vocabulary Map Vocab
Renaissance
Roman Catholic Church
Reformation
printing press
humanism
secularism
individualism
Protestantism
Martin Luther
Tetzel
95 Theses
indulgence
John Calvin
predestination
theocracy
Presbyterian
Anabaptist
Catholic Reformation
Jesuits
Leonardo DaVinci
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg Bible
William Shakespeare
Thomas More
utopia
vernacular

Reading Questions
1. Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
2. How does the work of Michelangelo show that he was influenced by Renaissance values?
3. Define the term "Renaissance Man" and describe how Leonardo DaVinci is a true "Renaissance Man".
4. How are the ideals of democracy and the Renaissance similar?
5. How did the Reformation promote the idea of individualism?
6. How did the Reformation indirectly contribute to the growth of democracy?
7. How did the printing press help promote the ideals of democracy?
8. What were the major effects of the invention of the printing press?
9. What is the Reformation?
10. How did Martin Luther start the Reformation?
11. Did the Reformation strengthen or weaken the Roman Catholic Church? Explain your answer.
12. Explain the idea of predestination in relation to Calvinism.
13. List the Reformers discussed in class and in readings and explain their ideas.

Day 1 - The Development of Western Democracy

Homework Questions for Monday 6/15. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 6/16.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Monarchy
Democracy
Tyranny (Tyrant)
Direct Democracy
Indirect Democracy
Republic
Monotheistic religion
Judaism
Polytheistic Religion
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Covenant
Morality
Greek Philosophers
Ethics
Plato
Aristotle
Pericles
Dictator
Veto
Common Law
Magna Carta
Parliament
Absolute Monarchy
Common Law
Habeas Corpus
English Bill of Rights
Limited Monarchy
Petition of Rights

Reading Questions:
1. What process took city-states from monarchy to aristocracy and, in Athens, to democracy?
2. How did Pericles make Athens more democratic?
3. What were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ideas about democracy?
4. What does Plato say about tyranny in The Republic on pg. 18?
5. According to Aristotle on pg. 19, What does Aristotle say about human beings governing fairly?
6. What lasting principles of law did Romans develop?
7. What important democratic ideas did Judaism promote through its ethical view of the world?
8. How are the Judeo-Christian and democratic traditions linked?
9. How did the English Parliament limit the power of the monarch?
10. Why is the Magna Carta considered a source of traditional democratic principles?
11. Did the English Bill of Rights leave the English Monarch powerless? Explain Why or Why not?
12. Which people, the English or the Athenians, had more democratic rights? To explain your answer think about the following: type of government, who participated in government, and the freedoms each society enjoyed.
13. What are the main historical sources of the democratic tradition?