1112 Study Guide

Identifications:

Motives of Imperialism
Colonizer v. Colonized
Civilizing Mission/White Man's Burden
Imperialism trends (geography)
India/Jewel of the British Empire
Sepoy Rebellion
Imperialism in Africa
Imperialism in South Pacific
U.S. Imperialism
Scientific Racism
Construction of the Panama and Suez Canals
Nationalism
Militarism
Factors leading to WWI
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Alliance systems
Industrial Warfare and New Weapons
Western Front and Trench Warfare
U.S. involvement in WWI
Zimmerman Note
Lusitania
Bolshevik Revolution
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
War Debt Cycle
Speculation
Buying on Margin
Stock Market Crash and Global Depression
Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism
Benito Mussolini and Fascism
Joseph Stalin and Russian Communism
FDR and the New Deal
Indian Independence and Ghandi
Chinese Nationalism and Mao Zedong
African Nationalism and Independence
Good Neighbor Policy and Teddy Roosevelt
Italian and German Aggression
Defiance of Treaty of Versailles
Blitzkreig
Battle of Stalingrad
Alliances in WWII
D-Day
North African Front
War in the Pacific
Island Hopping
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Stages of the Holocaust
The Big Four, Peace Treaty, Seeds of Cold War
United Nations
Creation of Israel state
Cold War and Korea
Cold War and Vietnam
Cold War and Cuba (Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis)
Peaceful Coexistence
Nikita Khrushchev
Gorbachev, end of the Cold War, Collapse of Soviet Union
Iranian Revolution
Latin American Dictators, Reform, and Socialism
Aparteid
WTO
Globalization
Transnationalism
Postcolonialism
Neocolonialism
Global Terrorism
Gender in late 20th century

Possible Discussion Questions:

1. In what ways was WWI different from any war before it (consider new ideologies and industrial developments)?

2. Explain how the Russian revolution affected the U.S. and Europe from 1917-1989? Begin by explaining the basic changes of government rule created by the revolution.

3. Was the Treaty of Versailles "a peace to end all peace." Defend your answer.

4. Describe the multiple facets of WWII. Include fronts, strategies, turning points, and German attitudes toward peoples considered inferior.

5. How was Hitler able to rise to power, test his power, and expand his power from the late 1920s-1941?

6. Analyze why post WWII created the superpowers of the US and Soviet Union?

7. What were the major events and countries involved in the Cold War struggle? What do these events represent about the nature of power and nationalism?

8. Explain Globalization, Transnationalism, Post-Colonialism, and Neo-Colonialism in terms of power and dominance.

9. Analyze independence movements in India, African nations, and East Asia.