History 152: World Civilizations II
Study
Guide: Unit Four
Lectures: World War I, Toward
Self-Rule in India, World War II, Cold War
After completing the assigned
readings and attending the lectures listed above, you should be able to:
describe:
1. the origins, alliances, fighting, peace settlement, and consequences of the
Great War (661-672, Doc. 22.1 & 22.2).
2. how and why India gained its independence from Britain, and the role played
by Gandhi (671, 782-792).
3. the causes and outcome of World War II in Europe and Asia (686-706).
4. the horrors of World War II as demonstrated in the Holocaust & Rape of
Nanking (699, 707-713, Doc. 25.3 + handout).
5. the reasons the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb and the results (703, 708, 712-713, Doc. 25.4).
6. how the Cold War shaped the second half of the 20th century (719-720, 725-729).
| know the importance of: | define: |
| Bismarck’s system of alliances (663 + notes) | “battle of attrition” (notes) |
| Kaiser William II (603, 605 + notes) | “over the top” (663) |
| Russian-French Alliance (663 + notes) | Triple Alliance & Triple Entente (663 + notes) |
| Balkan Wars (661) | “blank check” (notes) |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand (663) | mandated territories (662, 669-672) |
| Battles of the Marne (663) & Verdun (664) | dyarchy (783) |
| Treaty of Versailles (669-670) | satyagraha (783) |
| Wilson’s Fourteen Points (667-670, Doc. 22.7) | Mahatma (notes) |
| League of Nations (670-672) | realpolitik (789) |
| Government of India Act (783) | fascism (686) |
| Rowlatt Acts (671) | Mein Kampf (688) |
| Mohandas Gandhi (671, 710, 783-792, Doc. 27.1) | Nazis (687) |
| Indian National Congress (785, 789) | blitzkrieg (696) |
| Great Depression (680-682) | Axis & Allies (699, 701, 705) |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (681, 699, 721) | anti-Semitism & genocide (707) |
| Benito Mussolini (686-687) | Holocaust (708) |
| Adolf Hitler (687-690) | Ultra-nationalism (notes) |
| policy of appeasement (695 + notes) | kamikaze (notes) |
| Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact (695-696) | Pax Americana (725) |
| Battle of Britain & D-Day (698, 702) | “iron curtain” (notes) |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (700, 704) | Third World (743-745) |
| Rape of Nanking (699, Doc. 25.3 + handout) | globalization (827-830) |
| Battles of Midway (703) & Iwo Jima (notes) | |
| Harry Truman (712, 719) | dates & numbers: |
| Joseph Stalin (675-677) | years of WWI (663) |
| Berlin airlift (719) & Berlin Wall (808) | beginning of WWII in Europe (696) |
| United Nations (714-715) | when Pearl Harbor was attacked (700) |
| NATO & Warsaw Pact (714, 720) | end of WWII in Europe & Asia (702-703) |
| Marshall Plan (719) | est. # of Jews killed in Holocaust (708) |
| est. global casualty count for WWI (667) & WWII (705) |
locate on a map & know the importance of each: (Maps on pages 662, 664, 668, 697, 704, 714, 790)
| Bosnia & Serbia (661-663) | Ottoman Empire (608-609, 661-663) |
| Germany & Austria-Hungary (661, 663-667) | Belgium & France (663) |
| Russia (661, 663, 665) | India & Pakistan (790-791) |
| Amritsar (671, 783) | Kashmir & Bangladesh (791-792) |
| Pearl Harbor (700) | Hiroshima & Nagasaki (703, 708, 713) |
| Munich (695) | Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia (668, 689, 695, 701-702) |
| Poland (696) | Auschwitz & Treblinka (697, 711) |
| Korea (728) | extent of Japan’s empire in 1942 (704) |