AP World History
RHS
Mrs. Osborn
Name______________________________________ Per____ Date___________________________
PERIOD 6 (1900-Present)
Ch. 31 Reading Study Guide: “The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949”
(TEXT, Bulliet 2nd edition, pp. 779-803)
DIRECTIONS:
HONOR STATEMENT: On my honor, I understand that this is an individual assignment and is
to be completed entirely by myself. (Copying or ‘splitting’ the assignment with other students
will not prepare me for tests/essays in this course.)
A) Write answers on your OWN paper. Do the work on your own. You need to read.
B) Using 3x5 index cards, create study flash cards (term on one side, definition on the other
side w/chapter pg#) of the following key terms: Joseph Stalin, Five-Year Plans, Benito
Mussolini, Fascist Party, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Long March,
Stalingrad, El Alamein, Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway, Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Holocaust.
C) Using complete sentences, answer the following questions. Page numbers provided.
1. Why was Stalin’s first Five Year Plan implemented? p.780-781
2. Who was trained to work in the new factories and mines as part of Stalin’s Five Year Plans?
p.781
3. What is collectivization? p.781-782
4. How did the kulaks react to collectivization? p.782
5. How many kulaks were arrested and what happened to them? p.782
6. How did the Nazi takeover of Germany affect Stalin’s Second Five Year Plan? p.782
7. Why did Stalin use methods of terror against his own people? p.782-783
8. What types of jobs were opened to women in Stalinist Russia? p.783
9. What was the Smoot-Hawley tariff and what was its result? p.784
10. Which 2 industrialized countries suffered worst as a result of the Depression? p.784
11. What was the purpose of the “New Deal?” p. 785
12. Why did the South African economy boom during the Depression? p.785
13. Why were people attracted radical politicians after WWI? p.785
14. What were fasci di combattimento? p.785
15. What propaganda slogan glorifying Mussolini was repeated in Italy? p.786
16. List 4 goals that Hitler had for Germany. p.786-787
17. What did many Germans believe which allowed Adolf Hitler to become so popular? p.786787
18. What African nation did Italy invade in 1935 and why? p.787
19. Specifically, what was the outcome of the Munich Conference in 1938? p.787
20. What were the 3 causes of “appeasement”? p.787-788
21. What did the Japanese see as the solution to their economic dependence? p.788
22. What was the result of the Manchurian Incident of 1931? p.788
23. Mao Zedong relied on the support of what social group in his struggle for power? p.789
24. How was Mao an advocate of women’s equality? Give 3 examples. p.789
25. As Japanese leaders realized that their war in China was becoming a drain on resources,
Japan became dependent on the United States for what? p.790
26. In Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, how many women were raped? How
many killed? p.790
27. Why did Mao Zedong stop getting aid from Stalin in 1941? p.790
28. What does blitzkrieg literally mean? p.792
29. What countries did the Soviet Union invade in the early years of WWII? p.792
30. Why did Japan want to occupy Europe’s Southeast Asian colonies? p.793
31. In the end, why did the Guomindang collapse? p.798
32. Give at least 3 examples of how the war affected the environment. p.802-803
D) Free Response Focus Questions: Answer EACH of these questions in a 4-6 sentence
paragraph.
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In your own words! Do not simply copy from the book and memorize the response.
Support your response with plenty of facts.
Understand where events fall historically (global context, cause/effect, etc)
33. The Depression in the 1930s was the deepest and most widespread economic collapse in
history. What were its international economic and political consequences?
34. Explain the reasons for the Soviet Union’s economic success during the 1930s, and discuss
the effects of the economic success on the Soviet people.
35. Explain the rise of fascism in Europe and the events leading up to the Second World War.
36. What were some of the technological advances during WWII that made it a “war of
science”?
37. Compare the lives of civilians on the home front in the United States during WWII with the
experiences of civilians in Europe and Asia. Use examples of the Holocaust and Hiroshima.
38. What was the source of conflict between Japan and China from 1931 to 1945?
39. Who was Mao Zedong and how did he present a challenge to the Chinese government? What
is the Long March?
E) FLIPPED VIDEOS: Watch the following short videos for this chapter:
- WHCC Chinese Revolutions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts
- WHCC World War II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE
ART IMAGES  NEXT PAGE
F) PERIOD SIX ART IMAGES (1900-Present) Related to Chapter 31.
Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange, USA, 1936.
Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, Spain, 1937.
We Can Do It!, by J. Howard Miller for the War Production Co-Ordinating
Committee, USA, 1943.
Eyes in the Heat, by Jackson Pollock, USA, 1946.