Second Semester Review Guide Honors World Studies 2013-2014 Essential Questions: EQ 1: What makes a country powerful? EQ 2: Why are some states more powerful than others? EQ 3: What happens when different cultures collide? EQ 4: How does culture influence the course of a country's history? EQ 5: Why do civilizations decline or collapse? EQ 6: What role does leadership have in the fate of a country? EQ 7: Why do countries go to war? EQ 8: How do new ideas emerge, evolve, and impact society? EQ 9: Why have men and women been treated differently? EQ 10: What is the best form of government? EQ 11: What is the best economic system? EQ 12: What determines whether countries will be friendly or antagonistic towards each other? EQ 13: What causes revolutions? EQ 14: How much violence can be justified in the name of creating a better society? EQ 15: What role does science play in shaping a society? EQ 16: When does have a society have the right to intervene in another society’s affairs? EQ 17: What values or rights, if any, are universal (and not culturally constructed)? EQ 18: What is the best way to resolve an international crisis? EQ 19: How do you build a lasting peace? EQ 20: It is more important to be safe or to be free? EQ 21: Why do some people freely support evil regimes? EQ 22: To what extent do past events determine the future? EQ 23: What causes discrimination against a particular group of people? EQ 24: To what extent does art shape - or is shaped by – society? EQ 25: What is the best way to respond to an aggressor? EQ 26: What makes genocide possible? EQ 27: Does a noble goal ever justify the use of violence? Unit #6: The Interwar Period Ruhr Valley Dawes Plan Great Depression Weimar Republic John Maynard Keynes Deficit spending Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal Totalitarian state Benito Mussolini Fascism Il Duce Lenin New Economic Policy (NEP) Soviet Union (USSR) Politburo Leon Trotsky Josef Stalin Five Year Plans collectivization Great Purge authoritarian HWS Second Semester Review Guide 5/14/2014 Page 1 of 5 Francisco Franco Spanish Civil War Pablo Picasso Guernica Adolf Hitler Nazi (NSDAP) Stormtroopers (SA) Brownshirts Beer Hall Putsch Mein Kampf lebensraum Reichstag Hindenburg Hitler Youth Emperor Hirohito Enabling Act Joseph Goebbels Comintern Nationalist Party concentration camps Dada Führer Sun Yat-Sen surrealism Chiang Kai-Shek Aryan Salvador Dali Shanghai Massacre Third Reich Stream of consciousness SS James Joyce Mao Zedong Long March Heinrich Himmler Werner Heisenberg Nuremburg Laws uncertainty principle Kristallnacht Militarism 1. I can identify what problems western democracies faced in the post-war era. 2. I can explain what caused the Great Depression, and how it became a global event. 3. I can analyze the different approaches taken in dealing with the Great Depression 4. I can analyze the basic characteristics, the goals, and the appeal of fascism. 5. I can analyze the way that Mussolini gained and exercised power in Italy. 6. I can analyze how Stalin secured power in the Soviet Union. 7. I can describe how Stalin transformed the Soviet Union. 8. I can identify which other states were shifting to authoritarian regimes. 9. I can analyze the importance of foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War. 10. I can analyze how Hitler came to power in Germany. 11. I can describe Hitler’s goals for Germany and Europe. 12. I can describe how Hitler transformed Germany. 13. I can describe how totalitarian regimes used new technology to their purposes. 14. I can analyze how culture was changing during this time. Unit #7: World War II & the Holocaust Rhineland Battle of Britain appeasement Operation: Barbarossa Rome-Berlin Axis Pearl Harbor Anschluss Bataan Death March Sudetenland Hideki Tojo Munich Conference Erwin Rommel Nazi-Soviet Non-Agg. Pact Battle of El Alamein Manchukuo Battle of Stalingrad League of Nations Battle of Midway Chiang Kai-shek Douglas MacArthur Rape of Nanjing island-hopping Second Sino-Japanese War Winston Churchill blitzkrieg Dwight D. Eisenhower Maginot Line June 6, 1944 (D-Day) Vichy France Normandy Franklin D. Roosevelt Battle of the Bulge 1. I can trace the steps of German aggression. 2. I can explain how the Western powers responded to HWS Second Semester Review Guide 5/14/2014 Page 2 of 5 Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Okinawa Harry S. Truman Atomic bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki Heinrich Himmler resettlement Final Solution genocide Reinhard Heydrich Einsatzgruppen Auschwitz collaborators kamikaze firebombing of Dresden aggression.. 3. I can identify the shifting alliances, and explain why each country chose the side that it did. 4. I can trace the steps of Japanese aggression. 5. I can explain why Japan went to war. 6. I can trace the course of the European theater. 7. I can explain why German forces were so successful at the beginning of the war. 8. I can identify the major turning points in the war. 9. I can analyze the causes of American neutrality, and then participation in WWII. 10. I can trace the course of the Pacific theater. 11. I can analyze what factors persuaded Truman to drop the atomic bombs. 12. I can describe what the Nazis did in the territories that they conquered. 13. I can describe Nazi’s goals, and how they went about achieving them. 14. I can identify the factions in China and what they were trying to accomplish. 15. I can describe the economic mobilization necessary to fight the war. 16. I can analyze the impact of the war on civilian populations. Unit #8: The Cold War Cold War “Missile gap” Tehran Conference Nikita Khrushchev Big Three Berlin Wall Yalta Conference John F. Kennedy United Nations Fidel Castro Security Council CIA Potsdam Conference Bay of Pigs Nuremburg Trials Cuban Missile Crisis Iron Curtain Vietnam War Truman Doctrine Lyndon B. Johnson Marshall Plan domino theory satellite states M.A.D. containment Richard Nixon Berlin blockade De-Stalinization Berlin Airlift Alexander Solzhenitsyn West Germany (FRG) Josip Tito East Germany (GDR) Imre Nagy Mao Zedong Alexander Dubcek Arms race Prague Spring Nuclear weapons Charles de Gaulle NATO Konrad Adenauer Warsaw Pact Willy Brandt Korean War Social Democrats Hydrogen bomb welfare state ICBM’s European Economic Deterrence Community Sputnik Leonid Brezhnev 1. I can analyze the origin and nature of the Cold War. HWS Second Semester Review Guide 5/14/2014 Page 3 of 5 Re-Stalinization Brezhnev Doctrine Détente SALT KGB Pope John Paul II Star Wars (SDI) Chernobyl Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost Democratization Boris Yeltsin August Coup Vladimir Putin Bosnia Slobodan Milosevic Kosovo Chiang Kai-Shek Mao Zedong Taiwan Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution Deng Xiaoping Tiananmen Square One-child policy 2. I can trace the course of the Cold War from 1945-1991. 3. I can explain what the United States and Soviet Union were trying to accomplish through their various moves around the world. 4. I can analyze the impact of Sputnik. 5. I can describe the arms race and nuclear strategy. 6. I can analyze the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the options available to Kennedy, and the potential consequences of those courses of action. 7. I can analyze how Khrushchev attempted to change the USSR, and why he failed. 8. I can analyze how and where the USSR asserted its will in Eastern Europe. 9. I can describe how Western Europe tried to recover from World War II. 10. I can analyze the factors in the decline of the Soviet Union. 11. I can describe the events that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 12. I can explain the current situation in Russia 13. I can explain the cause and course of the genocide in Bosnia. 14. I can analyze the major developments and policies in China between 1945 and 1991. Unit #9: Decolonization & Fallout Mohandas Gandhi Old Person Tutsi Indian National Congress New Person RPF Mahatma Killing Fields Interahamwe Civil disobedience S-21 Jean Bedel Bokassa Amritsar Gold Coast Mobutu Sese-Soko Salt March Ghana Zaire Jawaharlal Nehru Kwame Nkrumah Conflict diamonds Muslim League Jomo Kenyatta African National Indira Gandhi Julius Nyerere Congress Mother Theresa Pan-Africanism Afrikaners caste African Union apartheid Kashmir AIDS Nelson Mandela Khmer Rouge HIV Desmond Tutu Pol Pot Hutu F.W. de Klerk 1. I can trace the cause and course of the Cambodian genocide. 2. I can analyze the strategies that Indians used to win their independence. 3. I can analyze the major divisions in British India, and describe their implications. 4. I can describe the major challenges faced by India following independence. 5. I can analyze the tensions between India and Pakistan, and their implications. 6. I can identify the problems faced by African nations upon achieving independence. 7. I can analyze the ideologies that appealed to the newly-independent countries. 8. I can analyze the current problems facing African countries. 9. I can trace the cause and course of the Rwandan genocide. 10. I can identify the role the US and Europe have played in Africa since decolonization. HWS Second Semester Review Guide 5/14/2014 Page 4 of 5 Unit #10: Geopolitical Tensions Sunni Oslo Peace Accords Iraq War (2003-2011) Shia Yitzhak Rabin WMD’s Arab Second Intifada Abu Ghraib Persian Mahmoud Abbas Nouri al-Maliki Kurd Fatah Iraqi Insurgency (2011-?) Zionists Gaza Strip mujahideen Gamal Abdel Nasser Hamas Islamic fundamentalism 1948 Arab-Israeli War Hezbollah Taliban Suez War/Suez Crisis “Right of Return” Al-Qaeda Pan-Arabism Benjamin Netanyahu Osama bin Laden Six Day War Barack Obama Ayman al-Zawahiri Sinai Peninsula Shah Reza Pahlavi WTC bombing (1993) West Bank Iranian (Islamic) Revolution Khobar Towers bombing Golan Heights Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini USS Cole Anwar el-Sadat Theocracy September 11, 2001 Yom Kippur War Iran Hostage Crisis George W. Bush OPEC Saddam Hussein War in Afghanistan (2001-?) Jimmy Carter Iran-Iraq War Arab Spring Camp David Accords Ayatolah Ali Khameini Korean War PLO Hassan Rouhani Kim il-Sung Yasir Arafat Cult of Personality DMZ 1982 Lebanon War Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) Kim Jong-il (First) Intifada Operation: Desert Storm Kim Jong-Un 1. I can analyze the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 2. I can trace the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the establishment of the state of Israel through present day. 3. I can explain how the nature of the conflict changed after the Six-Day War. 4. I can explain how Israel has taken proactive steps to try to defend itself. 5. I can explain how the Palestinians have attempted to force Israeli concessions. 6. I can analyze the remaining obstacles to peace. 7. I can explain what led to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. 8. I can trace the history of Iraq’s conflicts with its neighbors. 9. I can identify Iran’s goals, and explain how they have tried to accomplish them. 10. I can explain why Iraq invaded Kuwait. 11. I can explain why the United States invaded Iraq, and what has resulted since. 12. I can describe the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. 13. I can analyze the origins of the Global War on Terror (against al-Qaeda). 14. I can analyze the causes and impacts of the Arab Spring. 15. I can explain the current situation in North Korea.
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