World History Study Guide

 

 

 

 

 


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 Imperialism and Colonization

 

The extent of the British Empire; role of Industrialization in promoting Imperialism Geography inset, p.331;  "Visual Summary," p 330
 Nationalism - Germany and Italy "Case Studies" 

 

Definitions of Nation, State, and Nation-State
Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini, Red-shirts, Otto von Bismarck, realpolitik, 1815 Congress of Vienna
 
Ch 8, Section 3

Alliances and Causes of WW I
  Map recognition of Alliances and Empires
 

 

M.A.I.N.; Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Armenian Massacre, Schlieffen Plan, Assassination Chapter 13 Sec 1;

Map p 365

World War I and the Aftermath

 

total war, technological advances, causes of casualties, war debt, Treaty of Versailles, Fourteen Points, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, "war guilt," reparations, mandate, the Russian Revolution, Zimmermann telegram, Lusitania, League of Nations, Gallipoli, armistice

 

Chapter 13 Sec 2, 3, 4;
Europe Between the Wars and the Start of World War II

See Maps p 382 "Europe After WWI" and  pp 433 and 412.

Identify Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland, East Prussia, Germany, Danzig

 

Bolshevik Revolution , Lenin, Stalin, "white Russians," "Red Army", totalitarianism, communism

demilitarized zone, Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, Weimar Republic, fascism, Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party, Third Reich lebensraum,  Isolationism,  Munich Conference, appeasement, Winston Churchill,Neville Chamberlain, Nazi and Soviet non-aggression pact
 

Ch 14, section 1 pp 392-94;

Ch 14 Section 2;

Ch 15, section 2, 3, 4

World War II

See also your handout sheets, #1- #5

 

"phony war," Battle of Britain," Charles de Gaulle, Vichy France, Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), Pearl Harbor, Dec 7 1941.

Operation Overlord, D-Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Battle of the Bulge, Manhattan Project, atomic bomb targets; V-E day, V-J day.


 

Ch 16, Sec 1, Sec 2 (p 447); Sec 4 pp 458 - 461