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.