Unit 5: WWI
Unit 6: Interwar
Unit 7: WWII
Unit 8: Cold War/Decolonization
Miscellaneous
100
These are the MAIN causes to WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
100
The leader of Germany from 1933-1945.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
A policy that allowed Hitler's continued expansion and aggression in Europe.
What is the policy of appeasement?
100
The struggle and conflict between the USA and USSR between 1945-1991.
What is the Cold War?
100
A war where nations devote all their resources to the war effort.
What is total war?
200
These WWI technologies (2) contributed to stalemate on the Western Front.
What are chemical warfare and machine guns?
200
A political ideology where the state was see more important than the people.
What is fascism?
200
The period of mass killings of Chinese citizens by Japanese soldiers.
What is the Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre?
200
A plan that gave funds for economic recovery to Western Democracies to stop the spread of communism after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
The Balkans were the _________ of Europe.
What is the Power Keg?
300
The Treaty of Versailles impacted Germany in these 3 major ways.
What are paying war reparations, downsizing their military, and taking full blame for the war.
300
The turning point battles for the Allied victory on the European Theater and the Pacific Theater.
What are the D-Day invasion and Battle of Midway?
300
The four examples of Proxy Wars during the Cold War.
What are the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and Soviet Afghan War?
300
The two policies that the last Soviet Union tried to reform the country with.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
400
The three types of art that emerged after WWI.
What are surrealism, dada, and cubism?
400
The historical context that this cartoon shows.
What is Germany's hostile reaction to the Treaty of Versailles which will make Hitler's promises and leadership more appealing to the German people?
400
This choice ultimately assisted in Hitler's defeat.
What is Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union)?
400
The historical even that lead to the tension displayed in this political cartoon (Explain).
What is the Partition of India, where a British lawyer divided British India into two countries - Pakistan (Muslim majority country) and India (Hindu majority country) splitting up families and communities and causing mass migrations.
400
What is decolonization and the Cold War?
500
The different ways women contributed to the war effort (3).
What are working in factories, serving as nurses, and growing and canning food at home.
500
5 Characteristics of Totalitarianism that both Hitler and Stalin share.
What are censorship, propaganda/cult of personality/indoctrination, secret police, one-party rule, and purges/removal of enemies of state?
500
This image of a Pogrom from 1819 and relates to Hitler's campaign against the Jewish population in Europe.
What is how strong anti-semitism was in Europe before Hitler came to power?
500
The purpose of this poster (explain using at least 2 key terms)
What is Mao's Cultural Revolution to recruit young people to his Red Guard and promote his Little Red Book to further grow his cult of personality.
500
The author's point of view:
... A weary, exhausted, nerve-racked group of men it was indeed that, about noon November 1, assembled in a gully north of Sommerance [France] to rest and dig in for the night. The artillery was still firing furiously, but the enemy's barrage [bombardment] had ceased very suddenly about 10:00 a.m. and now only occasional shells from long-range rifles would explode in the vicinity. The weather was gloomy and the moist air chilled one to the bones. Yet it was with that meticulous [methodical] care that is characteristic of worn-out men, that we prepared our foxholes, carrying boards and iron sheeting from abandoned machine-gunners' dugouts in order to make our "houses" as comfortable as possible, even though only for one night....
Source: William L. Langer, Gas and Flame in World War I, 1965
What is warfare in WWI was dangerous and tiring for soldiers (other descriptors that are similar are fine too).