World Civilizations Semester 2 Exam
Study Guide
Unit 5: World War I
What are the two other names (nicknames) of World War I?
Causes of the War
What were the 4 MAIN causes of World War I? Identify and explain how each one was a cause.
What single even set in motion the start of the war? When did it happen (month, day, and year)
WWI Begins
Define the following terms:
Western Front
Eastern Front
Who was part of the Central Powers? Who was part of the Allied Powers?
What was the Schlieffen Plan? What were the 2 main steps? What was the key for success?
WWI Goes Global
Why did the Americans join the war?
Why does Russia withdraw from the war?
What was the legacy of WWI? Who were the “Lost Generation”?
A Flawed Peace
Define the following terms:
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Who were the 4 major powers involved in the writing of the Treaty of Versailles? Who was left out?
In what ways did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany?
Unit 6: Rise of Totalitarianism
Russia
Define the following terms:
proletariat
V.I.Lenin
Joseph Stalin totalitarianism
What does USSR stand for?
Review the 7 Key Traits of Totalitarianism – be able to ID at least 3 with examples from Stalin’s Russia
Imperial China Collapses
Define the following terms:
Mao Zedong the Long March
Postwar Uncertainty
How did the effects of World War I influence literature and the arts in the 1920s?
Worldwide Depression
Why did the Great Depression in the U.S. turn into a global depression? Give at least two examples of the global effect.
Fascism Rises in Europe
Define the following terms:
fascism
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Nazism
lebensraum
Review the 6 Characteristics of Fascism – be able to ID at least 2 with examples from Nazi Germany.
Unit 7: World War II
Fascism Rises in Europe
Define the following terms:
Schutzstaffel Gestapo
Hitler Youth
When did Hitler come to power? In what way did he come to power “legally”?
Aggressors Invade Nations
Define the following terms:
appeasement isolationism
Third Reich
Munich Conference
What 3 countries made up the Axis Powers?
What two countries signed a nonaggression pact prior to the war?
Beginning of WWII
Define the following terms:
blitzkrieg
Charles de Gaulle
Winston Churchill
When did World War II officially start? What event started the war?
When did France officially fall? How did France get split up? (Vichy France vs. Free France)
Why was the outcome of the Battle of Britain important for the Allies?
What was “Operation Barbarossa”? When did it start?
Japan’s Pacific Campaign
Define the following terms:
Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway
What date is “a date that will live in infamy”?
The Holocaust
Define the following terms:
Kristallnacht Aryans
ghettos
genocide
What were the Nuremburg laws? What rights were Jews denied?
What was the “Final Solution”?
What are the 5 Levels of Prejudice? Identify and explain each level with examples.
The Allied Victory
Define the following terms:
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Stalingrad
What was the other name for D-Day?
What is V-E Day?
What two cities in Japan were victims of the American atomic bomb?
Europe and Japan in Ruins
Define the following terms:
Nuremberg Trials
demilitarization
democratization
What three programs did General MacArthur introduce during the U.S. occupation of Japan?
What two countries emerged from the war as the world’s two major powers?
Unit 8: The Cold War
Cold War: Superpowers Face Off
Define the following terms:
Yalta Conference
“Iron Curtain”
containment
NATO
Which four countries occupied Germany following WWII?
Why did the USSR blockade Berlin in 1949? How did the Allies respond?
Wars in Korea & Vietnam
Define the following terms:
Ho Chi Minh Khmer Rouge
The Cold War Divides the World
Define the following terms:
Third World
Fidel Castro
Ayatollah Khomeini
Taliban
Why did some nations maintain neutrality?
The Cold War Thaws
Define the following terms:
détente
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Define the following terms:
Gorbachev
glasnost
perestroika
Boris Yeltsin
What were the three policy reforms that Gorbachev’s instituted and how did they help to move the USSR toward
democracy? Identify and explain each.
When did the USSR officially cease to exist?
Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Define the following terms:
Solidarity
reunification Lech Walesa
Unit 9: Modern Conflicts
Indian Subcontinent Achieves Freedom
Define the following terms:
Mohandas K. Gandhi civil disobedience
Partition
What was the significance of the Salt March in the Indian movement towards independence?
How did religious and cultural differences create problems for the newly emerging nations in the Indian subcontinent?
Communists Take Power in China
Define the following terms:
Cultural Revolution
Red Guards
The Great Leap Forward
Where did the Nationalists in China retreat to after the Chinese Civil War?