Final Exam Review Sheet
Russia Revolution of 1917
“Land, peace and bread,” nationalization, command economy, purges, collectivization, gulag system, dissenters, five-year, plans, totalitarianism, kulak, pogroms,
People: Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Czar Nicholas II
Events: Russo-Japanese War, Bloody Sunday (Revolution of 1905), March Revolution, November (Bolshevik) Revolution, Purges, Famine in the Ukraine
Rise of Totalitarian Government in Post WWI Era
inflation, unemployment, Weimar Republic, Treaty of Versailles, “war guilt”, mandates, totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism, propaganda, aggression, reparations, Guernica - Picasso’s painting
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini – Black Shirts, Hirohito
Stock Market Crash 1929, 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler’s rise to power, Stalin’s rise to power
Nuremburg Laws,
World War II (1939-1945)
Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, appeasement, Anchluss, Nuremburg Laws, Jewish Star Decree, ghettos, “Final Solution”, AntiSemitism, genocide, United Nations, Axis and Allied powers
Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, Hirohito, FDR,
Munich Conference/Pact, Soviet Non aggression Pact, Holocaust, D-day, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuremberg Trials/Crimes against humanity, Blitzkreig, Lebensraum
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Cold War: Post WWII Era
Cold War, Superpowers, satellite nations, eastern bloc nations, non-aligned nations, Policy of containment, domino theory, brinkmanship, détente, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO/ Warsaw Pact, Iron Curtain,
Berlin Wall, Sputnik, arms race, ICBMs, space race, A-bomb, U-2,economic recovery of Japan and West Germany, formation of the United Nations
Churchill, Stalin, Khruschev, Brezhnev, Walesa, Castro,Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hungarian/ Revolt,Czechoslovakian uprising, Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan
Communist China: 1949-2009
Nationalists/ Communist, Long March, Taiwan, Reasons for the communist victory,
Five year plans: Great Leap Forward, communes, famine, Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, Little Red Book, Deng’s introduction of limited capitalism and how it led to demand for democratic reform, Four modernizations,
China’s human rights abuses, Harry WuJiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Mao Zedong, Deng Xiapoing, Sun Yet-Sen (Sun Yixiang)Tiananmen Square Massacre, Return of Hong KongTibet / Dalai Lama
Conflicts and Change in the Middle East
Pogroms, Anti-semitism, Zionism, Balfour Declaration, Mandates, Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, Secularization and westernization, Armenian Genocide, UN partition of Palestine 1947 and creation of Israel,
Arab-Israeli wars, the role of terrorism in the Middle East, PLO, Iranian Revolution 1979, Islamic fundamentalism, theocracy, Kurdish Nationalism, weapons of mass
destruction, OPEC, Infatada/Islamic Fundamentalism, Invasion of Afghanistan – mujahideen, Taliban, Yassir Arafat, Shah Pahlevi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden,
1956 Suez Crisis, 1968 War, Camp David Accords, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq war, Persian Gulf War, Oslo Accord, 9/11
Collapse of the USSR
Glasnost, Perestroika, Democratization, privatization, ethnic conflict, ethnic cleansing
Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbechev, Boris Yeltsin, Slobadan Milosevic, Vladimir Putin, Josef Tito
Fall of the Berlin Wall, German Reunification, Breakup of Yugoslavia, War in Bosnia and Kosovo, Dayton Peace Accord,
The Global Economy – Interdependence
The Global economy, The European Union(EU), International Monetary Fund(IMF), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC), North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, Green Revolution
Decolonization / End Of Imperialism
Decolonization in Asia and Africa, Methods used to affect change: violent revolution vs.
Civil disobedience and passive resistance, Communism in North Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia, Nonviolence in India- problems that happen after decolonization, Partition of India, Rwanda (Hutu-Tutsi),
Vietnam/Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), South Africa apartheid, economic sanctions, disinvestment, boycott,Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Kim Jong Il, Kenyatta, Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Mandela, deKlerk,
Tutu v Hutu, Sepoy Rebellion Amritsar, Salt March, Soweto, TET Offensive, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Rwanda Massacre , First (Capitalist), Second (Communist) and Third World Countries /
Less Developing Countries (LDCs),Nonalignment