Unit Six Key Terms: Take notes
on these major topics and you
should do fine on the exam. The
exam will be open note.
1. Explain Total War
2. How did WWI lead to the
fall of European world
hegemony?
3. List the factors that led to
the outbreak of WWI.
4. Describe the Balfour
Declaration.
5. Describe women’s roles
during WWI.
6. Why was the Brest-Litovsk
Treaty created by the
Russians?
7. What were the Fourteen
Points?
8. What were the results of
the peace settlement
coming out of WWI?
9. List and explain the
provisions of the Treaty of
Versailles.
10.
Describe the
motivations for dividing
Europe the way they did in
the Treaty of Versailles.
11.
Write a paragraph
describing Wilson’s
Principle of SelfDetermination.
12.
Describe the
Mandate System and
explain why there was
controversy over its’
creation.
13.
Describe what
happened to the Ottoman
Empire after WWI.
14.
Why is WWI a cultural
“Marker Event”?
15.
Describe the
problems that immediately
faced the League of
Nations.
16.
Who was Vladimir
Ilyich Ulyanov and what
was his argument of
democratic centralism
about?
17. Breakdown and describe
the Revolution of 1917.
18. Did Lenin’s democratic
centralism work?
19. In what ways was Stalin the
same as the Tsar’s?
20. Why were the Chinese
people rising against their
Qing Dynasty?
21. Who was Cixi?
22. Why did the Republican
government of Sun Yat-sen
fail?
23. Describe the relationship
between Chiang Kai-shek and
Mao Zedong.
24. Describe the economic
decline of Europe after WWI
and how that affected the rise
of the United States?
25. Describe the global domino
effect created by the bank
failures in the United States
(The Great Depression).
26. How did Roosevelt’s “New
Deal” reflect the economic
theory of John Maynard
Keynes?
27. What actions did Stalin
take against his own people
that struck fear into the
world?
28. What did the Fascist over
their people that gave them
hope? Who were the two
famous fascist in Europe?
29. How did Hitler’s fascism
hurt the roles of women in
Germany?
30. Why were Jew’s singled
out by Hitler?
31. How did the Great
Depression lead to Japan
becoming more
authoritarian?
32. How is WWII just an
extension of the unresolved
problems of WWI?
33. When and what was the
Tripartite Pact?
34. Describe the genocide and
Holocaust during WWII.
35. Describe the end of WWII
in Europe and the Pacific.