What were the characteristics of imperial rule for these colonies?

Concepts and Terms

Indirect vs. Direct control         

colony, protectorate, sphere of influence, econ. imper.

Paternalism                              

assimilation

Native resistance                      

positive and negative effects of colonial rule

Raj                                          

Nationalism in colonies

People, Places and Events

Sepoys, Sepoy Mutiny 1857       

Tea, opium, jute, cotton, rubber             

railroads, sanitation, schools       

Indian National Congress       

Muslim League

                       

Topic 2:  The Great War (WWI) 1914-1918

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

a)  Why did the Great War happen?

  Concepts and Terms

Nationalism                              

Militarism

Imperialism                              

Alliance System

Triple Alliance                

Triple Entente

“Sick Man of Europe”              

“Powder Keg of Europe”

ultimatum

 

People, Places and Events

Alsace & Lorraine                   

Bismarck

Wilhelm II                                

Anglo-German naval arms race

Ottoman Empire                       

Balkans                                                                                        

Austria-Hungary vs. Serbia       

Black Hand

Sarajevo 1914

 

b)  How was WWI the first truly industrial total war in history?

 Concepts and Terms

Central Powers vs. Allies          

stalemate

Schlieffen Plan                         

Plan XVII

Trench warfare                        

poison gas, machine gun, tank, submarine, etc.

Unrestricted sub warfare          

Zimmerman Telegram

Total war                                 

Home Front

Rationing                                 

propaganda

Impacts on women

 

People, Places and Events

Belgium                                   

First Battle of the Marne

Verdun, Somme (as examples)  

Western Front

Eastern Front                           

Gallipoli

African and Asian colonies       

Lusitania

US entry                                  

Russian withdrawal

Second Battle of the Marne      

Armistice

 

c)      What were the effects of the war and the peace settlement that followed it?

Concepts and Terms

Casualty numbers                     

Impacts on civilians

 Economic impacts                    

“Lost generation”

Psychological impacts               

Fourteen Points

Self-determination                    

League of Nations                  

“war guilt”                               

 “successor states”                    

reparations                               

dissatisfaction with/weaknesses of the settlement

 

People, Places and Events

Wilson                 

Clemenceau

Lloyd George                           

Treaty of Versailles

Other 3 treaties (briefly)           

Eastern Europe

Middle East

                                               

INSTABILITY BETWEEN THE WARS

 Topic 3:  Revolution and Nationalism 1900-1939

 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

a)  Why and how were the Bolsheviks able to seize control of Russia and establish a communist

state?

Concepts and Terms

Autocratic rule, tsar                  

economic backwardness vs. rapid industrialization

Marxism                                  

proletariat

Mensheviks v. Bolsheviks       

Duma

Impacts of WWI                   

revolution vs coup                                                                 

Provisional Govt                       

soviets

War communism                   

New Economic Policy

Communist Party                    

 

People, Places and Events                                       

Alexander III                           

Nicholas II and Alexandra

Marx                                       

Lenin                                               

Russo-Japanese War                

Bloody Sunday, Revolution of 1905                                               

Rasputin                                  

February/March Revolution

Kerensky                                 

Trotsky

October/November Rev.           

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Russian civil war                      

 

 b)  Why did the USSR develop into a totalitarian state under Stalin?

Concepts and Terms

Post-Lenin power struggle        

 totalitarianism

Propaganda/indoctrination/censorship                                                                          

Purges, show trials                   

 labor camps

Police state                              

characteristics of Stalinist control

Command economy                  

Five Year Plans                                   

Collective farms                       

impacts on women

Casualties of policies

People, Places and Events

Stalin                                      

“Great Purge”

First Five Year Plan

 

c)      How did nationalism begin to grow in Indis?

Concepts and Terms

Impacts of colonial rule             

Indian National Congress           

 Muslim League                        

 Impact of WWI

Civil disobedience                

nonviolence/satyagraha

Government of India Act 

 

People, Places and Events

Amritsar Massacre   Gandhi

Jinnah                                      

Salt March 1930

Topic 4:  Years of Crisis 1919-1939

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

a)  In what ways were the years following WWI a time of great instability?

Concepts and Terms

New scientific revolution           

theory of relativity (general, impact)

Freudian psychology (impact)    

literature of disillusionment

Existentialism                           

artistic rebellion

Surrealism                                

 jazz

Changing role of women

People, Places and Events

Einstein                        

Freud

TS Eliot                                   

Kafka

Sartre                                      

Nietzsche

Picasso                                    

Dali

 b)  How did instability and economic hardship contribute to the rise of fascist dictatorships?

Concepts and Terms

Unstable new democracies       

coalition governments

Inflation/hyperinflation              

Dawes Plan, interconnected world economy

Weaknesses of US economy     

impacts of Depression

Tokugawa Shogunate               

isolation

Meiji Restoration/Era                

modernization in Japan

Japanese imperial power

People, Places and Events

Weimar Republic                      

German currency crisis (note as result of Ruhr)

Stresemann                              

Locarno, Kellogg-Briand pact

Stock Market Crash 1929         

Great Depression

Responses of Br and Fr            

Response of Scandinavia

Roosevelt                                 

New Deal

Korea                                      

Russo-Japanese War                                                                                                    

 Tsushima Straits           

Treaty of Portsmouth

Control of militarists in Japan

 c)  How did the actions of the dictators and the responses of the democracies help create the

conditions for a second world war?

Concepts and Terms

 Fascism                                   

how Mussolini came to power

Nazism                                    

How Hitler came to power        

Mein Kampf                            

lebensraum                                         

 How Hitler became Fuhrer       

Nazi anti-Semitism                                                                                

Spread of dictatorships                                                                                                                           Appeasement                           

Axis powers                                                                                         

Isolationism                              

Third Reich

People, Places and Events

Mussolini                                 

Hitler

Manchuria 1931                       

Ethiopia 1935

German rearmament 1935         

Rhineland 1936

Spain 1936                               

Franco

Austria 1938                            

Czechoslovakia 1938

Munich 1938                           

Chamberlain

Churchill                                  

Czechoslovakia 1939

Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939              

Poland 1939

Topic 5:  World War II 1939-1945

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

a)  Why did the early stages of the war go so much in favor of the Axis powers?

Concepts and Terms

Blitzkrieg                                 

“Phony War"

German v. Italian success         

 US “neutrality"

Cash and carry, lend-lease        

Atlantic Charter

Oil embargo                             

 “East Asia for the Asiatics

People, Places and Events

Invasion of Poland                    

Soviet attacks in East

Fall of Scandinavia                   

Fall of France

Vichy                                      

de Gaulle

Battle of Britain                        

Churchill

Blitz                                        

North Africa

Rommel                                   

Invasion of the Balkans

Operation Barbarossa               

Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto

Roosevelt                                 

Fall of the Philippines (Case Study)

Fall of SE Asia                                          

b)  How was WWII even more of a total war than WWI, and in what ways did it call into question more than ever before what is acceptable practice in war?

Concepts and Terms

Holocaust                                

 SS

Ghettos                                    

“Final Solution"

Genocide                                 

Home Fronts

Economic mobilization               

propaganda

Limited civil rights                    

concentration camps of all sides and types

Bombing of cities                      

atomic bomb

People, Places and Events

Nuremberg laws 1935               

Kristallnacht

Poland                                     

Auschwitz, other death camps

Rosie the Riveter                      

Manzanar

 London                                    

Dresden

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

                                               

 

 c)  How were the Allies able to finally defeat the Axis powers?      

 Concepts and Terms

Island-hopping                          

aircraft carriers

Unconditional surrender            

Turning points

 Kamikazes                          

People, Places and Events

Doolittle’s raid                          

Coral Sea and Midway

MacArthur                              

Guadalcanal

Montgomery & El Alamein      

Eisenhower

Stalingrad     

Invasion of Italy                

D-Day                                     

Battle of the Bulge

German surrender                  

Iwo Jima, Okinawa

 Japanese surrender