2nd Quarter - Final exam study guide

World War I

) Fill out the following diagram representing the alliance system before World War I began – 3 countries that made up the Triple Entente, and 3 countries that made up the Triple Alliance.

) What is militarism, and how did it contribute to the start of World War I?

) Why did all of the European countries think that their armies were invincible, and that their side would win the war in a very short period of time?

) What was the event that set off World War I, causing Austria to declare war against Serbia?

) What were 4 types of weapons technology present in World War I that had not been used in previous wars in Europe?

) What was the space between two enemy trenches called?

) What is total war?

) On the pre-World War I map below, label the following 16 countries: the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands (Holland)

) Explain 4 reasons why the United States entered World War I

) Explain the differences in the goals of US president Woodrow Wilson at the Treaty of Versailles negotiations compared to the goals of Britain and France.

Russian Revolution

) Describe 3 reasons why the Russian people hated Tsar Nicholas prior to the Russian Revolution.

) Why did the Russian people hate Tsarina Alexandra?

) Who was Rasputin, and why was he assassinated?

) When Lenin came to power in November 1917, what did his government do regarding private property and industry?

) What were the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Germany and Russia?

) Why did the Red Army beat the White Army in the Russian Civil War?

World War II

) How did the Treaty of Versailles (which ended World War I) indirectly cause World War II?

) What was the policy of appeasement, and how did it help cause World War II?

) What was the Phony War?

) What were 3 of Hitler’s biggest mistakes during World War II?

) Describe 3 reasons why the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

Cold War

) What was the Truman Doctrine?

) What was the Marshall Plan?

) What is a proxy war?  Give two examples of proxy wars that occurred during the Cold War.

) Why did the USSR blockade Berlin in 1948-49, and how did the US and Britain defeat the blockade?

) Why did the Chinese military attack the American military in the Korean War?

) Why was France so eager to assist Britain and Israel against Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956?

) On the post-World War II map below, label the following 9 countries: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Romania, West Germany, and East Germany

) What did the USSR begin building during the Berlin Crisis of 1961?

) What trade did the US make to get the USSR to remove its missiles from Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

) Why was the United Nations Security Council mostly ineffective throughout the Cold War?

) What was the Domino Theory?

) Describe the differences between how the US viewed the Vietnam War compared to how the Vietnamese viewed it

) Describe 4 reasons why Americans began to protest against the Vietnam War.