Chapter 29: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949 Leading up to WWI, what did the world order rely on? What did President Warren Harding consider Normalcy? How did the Great Depression affect global relations? What was different about WWII compared to WWI? What were some of the lasting effects of WWII? The Stalin Revolution The Five Year Plans Summarize the definition of Joseph Stalin in the margin What does Stalin mean? What was Stalin s main ambition/goal? What was the Communist Party s relationship with Industrialization? Define Five Year Plan Describe the transformation that occurred in Russia: Collectivization of Agriculture What caused the collectivization of agriculture? Define collectivization: When the peasants withdrew support for the Russian Revolutions 1917-18, how did they protest? How did Collectivization change this? Who were the Kulaks? How did they respond to collectivization? How did Stalin respond to them? Describe the peasants left behind? What problems did farmers face? What happened in 1933-4? When was Stalin s Second Five Year Plan? What was its intent? What happened? Did the second Five Year Plan work? How were the Soviet people?
Terror and Opportunities What was the NKVD? What did they do? What happened to Sergei Kirov? Why? How did Stalin use the laws to his advantage? What is a gulag? How many were sent? Are you keeping track? 8 million Kulaks killed, 5 million farmers die of famine, many more millions sent to the gulag why did people still support Stalin? Who are the top 3 most industrialized countries? 3. The Depression What and when was Black Thursday? What collapsed banks? How long was the stock market dive? Economic Crisis Who was laid off first? Why? What happened to the size of the American economy? What was the unemployment rate in the US? What was the Smoot- Hawley Tariff? What effect did it have? Depression in Industrial Nations How did France and Britain survive? What types of nations were the most heavily affected? How did Germany fare? How did Japan fare? What is autarchy? How is it a nationalistic response? What was the goal of the New Deal? What was the goal of radical leaders in Germany or Japan?
Depression in Nonindustrial Regions How was India affected? How was China affected? How were Malaya and Indochina affected? How was Egypt affected? What effects were felt across Latin America? How did that affect their governments? How was Africa affected by the depression? What is true about politics in all western countries? The Rise of Fascism What did radical politicians advocate? What tools did they use? What was borrowed from Communism? What was not? Mussolini s Italy What were the Fasci de Combattimento? Who joined them? What was their goal? How did these fascitsti gain employment? What did the Fascist Party believe? What did Mussolini threaten? Why? What were some of Mussolini s first actions upon getting into the government? What was Mussolini s genius? What does Nazi stand for? Hitler s Germany What were Hitler's three defined social classes and who existed in them? What was Hitler s first goal? Define Lebensraum? Where did it come from? What beliefs underly it? What pressures increased Hitler s population? What groups began joining the Nazi party?
What happened in 1933? What restrictions did Jews face? What happened in 1934? Were Nazi policies effective? The Road to War. 1933-1939 How did Britain and France respond to Germany dropping out of the LoN and conscripting soldiers? How did Italy react to Britain and France s reaction to Germany? What did Hitler do in March, 1938? What was the reaction? What was decided at the Munich Conference in 1938? Define Appeasement: What are Appeasement s three causes? 3. What was the basis of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939? What was the treaty between Germany and Italy called? Why was there no alliance between Russia, France, and Britain? East Asia, 1931-1945 Demand for what two products dropped during the depression? How did that affect the population? What did Japan feel was their problem? What was the proposed solution? The Manchurian Incident of 1931 What made Manchuria a desirable piece of land? What was the Japanese justification for creating Manchukuo? How did the League of Nations respond? What began happening in the Japanese mainland? The Long March What was the biggest challenge to Chiang Kai-Shek s government? Describe Mao Zedong:
What was different about Mao s version of communism compared to Marx? How did Chiang treat communists and labor leaders? What was the long march? The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 What happened in July 1937? Describe the success of the Japanese invasion of China. How did it affect Japan? What happened in Nanjing? How did Chiang attempt to slow the Japanese? What were its effects? How did the Communists use the conflict with the Japanese? The Second World War The War of Movement What is the wehrmacht? Describe and define their military tactics. What new targets did the war focus on? War in Europe and North Africa What was the Phony War? What was the Battle of Britain? What were its goals? What happened in June 1941? What happened at Stalingrad? Why is it significant? What happened at El Alamein? Why is it significant? War in Asia and the Pacific How did the U.S. respond to Japan taking Indochina? What did Japan hope for at Pearl Harbor? List and explain the significance of American confrontations with japan: 3.
The End of War What two advances did the Allies make in Western Europe? When did Germany surrender? What was unique about fighting in the Pacific front? How did the United States cripple Japan? What events led to their surrender? Collapse of the Guomindang and Communist Victory What eroded support for the GMD? What factors enabled the Communists to win military victories against the GMD? The Character of Warfare Approximately how many died? How many refugees were there in China? What made this war so deadly? The Science and Technology of War List all the advances made in tech in the first paragraph: What technology did Germany invent? How did Einstein view nuclear power? Bombing Raids What was the goal of bombing raids? How many Germans did bombing raids kill and injure What made bombing raids especially effective against Japan? The Holocaust What was the Nazi strategy for Jews pre 1942? What was the Final Solution? Define Auschwitz. How many was it designed to kill a day? What does Holocaust mean? The Home Front in Europe and Asia
What was different about WWII? How did the war affect ordinary citizens? How were labor shortages met in Allied countries? Germany? The Home Front in the United States How did the war affect the United States? How did the war affect social norms? How were immigrants affected? How were the Japanese- Americans affected? War and the Environment What was the main cause of environmental stress? Examples? How was Latin America affected? What happened to timber? Whaling?