[SPRING SEMESTER FINAL STUDY GUIDE] Mr.

Shull: World History

WWI & Imperialism Unit Reading WWI & Imperialism Helpful Study Resources
Textbook chapters 11 and 13
(quick review only of Imperialism, rely mostly
on items listed on the right to review
Imperialism)
EMPIRE Lecture (School Loop)
Imperialism & the World worksheet
Causes of WWI MANIA lecture (School Loop)
13 Steps to war lecture and notes (School Loop)
WWI War Breaks Out Lecture (School Loop)
End of WWI Worksheet
Beyond the Western Front lecture (School Loop)

Russian Revolution Unit Reading Russian Revolution Helpful Study Resources
Textbook Chapter 14 Sections 1-2
Stalins Totalitarian State reading (School
Loop)
Life in Stalinist Russia Truth Readings
(School Loop)
Marxs Communism vs. Leninism reading (School Loop)
Marxs Communism vs. Leninism Venn Diagram worksheet
Background of the Russian Revolution Lecture (School Loop)
Lenin lecture (School Loop)
Stalins totalitarian state worksheet

WWII & Totalitarianism Unit Reading WWII & Totalitarianism Helpful Study Resources
Textbook
Chapter 15 Sections 1-3
Chapter 16 Sections 1, 2 & 4 (skip section 3
and 5)
What is totalitarianism reading - (School Loop)
Key traits of Totalitarianism Pie Chart worksheet answers - (School Loop)
What is fascism reading & worksheet - (School Loop)
Fascism vs. Communism Venn Diagram worksheet answers - (School Loop)
Rise of Japan PowerPoint (School Loop)
Germany after WWI PowerPoint - (School Loop)
Nazi racial ideology fill in lecture notes (PowerPoint on School Loop)
Rise of Fascism In Europe activity notes (poster walk)
17 steps to WWII lecture notes (PowerPoint on School Loop)
WWII in nutshell PowerPoint (School Loop)

I mperialism:
1. What is Imperialism? Why did European countries pursue a policy of imperialism?
2. The 6 motives for imperialism? (EMPIRE Economic, Military and Political, Ideological, Religious,
Exploratory). What are examples of each?
3. Be able to define each type of Imperial control (colony, protectorate, sphere of influence)
4. What is the difference between Direct and Indirect rule?
5. What enabled powerful European countries to take power over other areas of the world so quickly?

WWI
1. What factors led to the start of WWI? (MANIA acronym): How did each of these factors contribute to the
start of the war?
2. How did a single assassination lead to a world war? Why did each country get involved?
3. What were the two alliances in the war? What were the major countries in each?
4. What did people expect the war to be like in the beginning? What was fighting like in the Western Front?
How was fighting in WWI different than previous wars? What kinds of new weapons were used? How did
these new weapons impact the war?
5. What happened in the Eastern Front? Why was Russia taken out of the war early?
6. What factors led to the end and resolution of the war?
7. Why did the U.S. enter the war? What factors contributed to this decision?
8. What were Wilsons Fourteen Points (in general, no need to memorize all 14)? What ultimate goal was he
trying to achieve (peace without victory)? Which of the Fourteen Points were fulfilled in the Treat of
Versailles?
9. How did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany for the war?


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Russian Revolution
1. What kind of ruler was Czar Nicholas II? Why was Russia falling behind other countries by the early 1900s?
2. Who was Rasputin?
3. How did WWI affect Russia?
4. What is Karl Marxs basic theory of communist revolution? What is the goal? How should it be achieved?
5. How is Communism different than Capitalism? Why was Russia not an ideal place for revolution?
6. What happened during the February/March and October/November Revolutions? What was the Provisional
Government? Who won the civil war?
7. Who is Lenin? How did he change Marxs ideas to fit Russia?
8. Who are the Mensheviks? Who are the Bolsheviks and how did they come to power? What changes did they
make to Russia after coming to power?
9. What was the Red Terror? What was its purpose?
10. What was the New Economic Policy (NEP) and its outcomes?
11. Who was Stalin? How did he come to power? What new policies did he bring to Russia?
12. How did Stalin try to maintain his power and reputation?
13. What is collectivization and Five-Year Plans? Were they successful?
14. What was the Great Purge? What happened to those Stalin thought was a threat?
15. How did the lives of Russians change under Stalins rule? In what ways did Stalin try to control his people?
16. What improvements did he make for society?

WWI I
1. What are the characteristics of a totalitarian state? Which countries became totalitarian in the 1930s?
2. How do totalitarian leaders get their power? How did totalitarianism rise in Russia, Italy, Germany, and
Japan?
3. What is Fascism? How is it different than Communism? What countries were fascist?
4. What was Germany like after WWI? How would its conditions help Hitler come to power? Who did the
Nazis blame for Germanys hardships?
5. How did Hitler come to power? Why did people follow him? What did Hitler promise the German people?
6. How did Japan become a world power by the end of WWI? What was Japan like after WWI? What were the
goals of the militarists? Why did Japan want to expand? Where did they take over?
7. What happened during the Rape of Nanking? How is a nation affected when the military is in power?
8. What is appeasement? How did the start of WWII unfold? What is the timeline of the basic events of the
war? How did the war end?
9. What were the results of WWII?
10. What was the Cold War?
11. What is the Iron Curtain? NATO? The Warsaw Pact?

Holocaust
1. How has anti-Semitism been evident in European history? What are stereotypes of Jews that have developed
throughout history? - Examples: Christ-killers, wandering Jew, blood libel, abusing the host etc
2. How did Social Darwinism and Eugenics influence Hitler?
3. What did Hitler and the Nazis believe about race and the Jews?
4. What policies did Hitler make against the Jews? What happened during the different stages of the Holocaust?
How did people try to resist the Holocaust in each stage?
5. What were the results of the Holocaust?
6. What are the 6 steps to genocide? Where else in the world have genocides occurred in the 20th century?
Where is there a genocide occurring right now?

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China
1. Why did the Qing Dynasty Fall? How did Western Imperialism affect the stability of China?
2. Who is Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian)? What were his 3 Principles of the People?
3. What happened during the May 4th Movement? Why were the students protesting?
4. Who is Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)? What were the goals of the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/KMT)?
5. Who is Mao Zedong? What were his plans to improve China? How did he change Marxs ideas to fit China?
6. What happened during the Chinese Civil War? How was the civil war affected by the invasion of the
Japanese? Why did the Communists win the Civil War? Where did the Nationalists go after being defeated?
7. What are some changes the Communist made to Chinese society once they were in power?
8. What were the goals of the Great Leap Forward? Why did it fail?
9. What was the Cultural Revolution? Who was targeted? What affects did it have on society?
10. What economic changes did Deng Xiaoping make when he came into power?
11. What were the goals of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989? How did the government respond?
12. What is China like today?

Other Things:
1. Know the political spectrum (left, right, center): Where do different people and theories fall on the spectrum?
2. Chronology (not exact dates) is very important: In what order do events happen? Why do they happen in
this order? (Ex. How did nationalism help lead to WWI? Why does WWII come after WWI? How did
Stalinist Russia serve as an example for Maoist China?)
3. Big Picture: What was going on throughout the world in different countries at the same time? (Ex. What was
happening in Germany and in Japan during the 1930s? How did the results of WWI impact events in Russia,
Germany, and China?)
4. Essay Writing: What are the different parts of a well-written argumentative essay?
The End

See below for a list of terms to use as a study tool.




















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If you have studied the concepts in the first three pages of this study guide well the following list of terms will not
be new information. This list of terms is merely an additional study tool to the list of concepts above; use it to
quiz yourself and your classmates on how well you know the concepts
Imperialism & WWI:
Direct colony
Sphere of Influence
Social Darwinism
Modernization
Westernization
Indirect Colony
trench warfare
Zimmermann Note
Protectorate
no mans land
armistice
Ultimatum
Battle of Verdun
Lusitania
blank check
Treaty of Brest-
Litovsk
self-determination
mobilize
total war
League of Nations
Neutrality
Propaganda
reparations
Schlieffen Plan
unrestricted
submarine warfare
Treaty of Versailles
Franz Ferdinand
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points

Russian Revolution:
Nicholas II
Proletariat
Joseph Stalin
Alexandra
Bolsheviks
Karl Marx
Russian Orthodox
Church
Lenin
Communism
Soviet
Leon Trotsky
Socialism
Duma
Whites
Capitalism
Russo-Japanese War
Reds
USSR
Bloody Sunday
Cheka
Revolution of 1905
New Econ Policy
Totalitarianism
Rasputin
Communist Party
Collectivization
Provisional
Government
Kulak
Red Terror
Menshevik
Gulag
Command Economy
Five Year Plans
Great Purge

WWI I , Holocaust, Genocide, & Cold War:
Manchuria
Hirohito
Nanking
Cubism
Surrealism
Genocide
blood libel
Sigmund Freud
Lost Generation
Fascism
Communism
Totalitarianism
Militarism
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Weimar Republic
Mein Kamph
Antisemitism
Concentration Camp
Dawes Plan
Kristallnacht
Final Solution
Nuremburg Laws
Gestapo
Third Reich
Anschluss
Appeasement
Pacifism
Sanctions
Maginot Line
Sudetenland
Blitzkrieg
Munich Conference
Neville Chamberlain
League of Nations
Winston Churchill
Isolationism
Axis Powers
Allies
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Dunkirk
Operation Barbarossa
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
D-Day
V-E Day
V-J Day
Kamikaze
Pearl Harbor
London Blitz
Battle of Britain
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Spanish Civil War
Vichy Government
Harry Truman
Containment
Iron Curtain
NATO & Warsaw
Pact
Domino theory
detente




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China:
Mandate of Heaven
Kuomintang
Cultural Revolution
Opium War
Jiang Jieshi
Red Guard
Treaty of Nanjing
Mao Zedong
Little Red Book
Taiping Rebellion
The Long March
Deng Xiaoping
Confucianism
Guerilla Warfare
4 Modernizations
Boxer Uprising
Nationalization
Tiananmen Square
Massacre
Sun Yixian
Collective
Responsibility
System
3 Principles of the
People
Commune
Special Economic
Zones
May 4 Movement
Great Leap Forward