Second Semester Review Guide

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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.