Summative Assessment (Test) #3 - Semester 2

This test will have three parts. It will focus on 20th century conflicts (Unit 7 and Unit 8 in the blue textbook).

SECTION ONE (Matching)

You will be given descriptions of the following vocabulary terms. You'll have to match each description with the appropriate term. You will have the word bank below to help you during the test.

1. World War I

2. Militarism

3. Imperialism

4. Nationalism

5. Woodrow Wilson

6. Fourteen Points

7. Treaty of Versailles

8. League of Nations

9. Bolshevik Revolution

10. Vladimir Lenin

11. Joseph Stalin

12. Totalitarianism

13. Command economy

14. Five-year plan

15. Collectivization

16. Mao Zedong

17. Weimar Republic

18. Great Depression

19. Franklin D. Roosevelt

20. Neville Chamberlain

21. Appeasement

22. Adolf Hitler

23. Benito Mussolini

24. Fascism

25. Winston Churchill

26. Pearl Harbor

27. Battle of Stalingrad

28. D-Day

29. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

30. Holocaust

31. Final Solution

32. Nuremberg Trials

33. United Nations

34. Cold War

35. NATO

36. Warsaw Pact

37. Nonaligned nations

38. Detente

39. Ronald Reagan

40. Margaret Thatcher

41. Mikhail Gorbachev

42. Perestroika

43. Glasnost

44. Deng Xiaoping

45. Decolonization

SECTION 2 (Document Analysis)

You will have to analyze one document. The document will be one of the following from the textbook.

• Page 855: Allied and German reactions to the armistice

• Page 857: Four views of World War I

• Page 919: Winston Churchill's speech before the House of Commons

• Page 949: Simon Weisenthal, quoted in Never Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust

• Page 967: Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

• Page 985: Fidel Castro (1962 interview)

• Page 1020: Fawaz Turki (The Arab-Israeli Conflict) and Abraham Tamir (From War to Peace)

You will need to evaluate the source. Using the SOAPSTONE method is a good idea (click here for a review of the SOAPSTONE method). Also, you should be able to put the document in its historical context (time, place, culture, and its significance). Finally, you should know how the document relates to the concept of 20th century conflict.

SECTION 3 (Essay)

You will write one of the following essays on the day of the test. You may bring in one notecard with 5 quotes on it to use as evidence in the essay.

1. Compare and contrast the communist revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949).

2. How were the causes of World War I similar to and how were they different from the causes of World War II?

3. Explain the effects of decolonization on countries in the developing world after 1945.

4. Explain the effects of the Cold War on Europe between 1945 and 1991.