Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction: Technological Systems, 1914-37
Topic Summaries: Be prepared to orally present three of these sections. Do not be tempted to just do the "short ones". Write a thesis statement for each section.
1. Scientific and Technological Creativity
2. Gender Relations
3. Urbanization and Migration
4. The Downside of Progress
5. Outside Europe
6. World War I, 1914-18
7. The Russian Revolution
8. Post-War America
9. Methods of Production and Destruction: What Difference Do They Make?
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. Fritz Haber
2. Marie (Skladowska) Curie and Pierre Curie
3. Karen Horney
4. Margaret Mead
5. Mechanization of Agriculture
6. Urbanization
7. Balance of Power
8. Id, Ego, Superego
9. Darbar
10. Sun Yat-sen
11. Duma
12. Wilson's Doctrine of Self Determination
13. Zemstvo
14. Leon Trotsky v. Joseph Stalin
15. A. Mitchell Palmer
16. Weimar Republic
17. Skepticism
18. Totalitarian Governments
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 652-653 "Industrial power rose steadily..." to end of section.
2. pp. 654-655 Militarized Competition among the Great Powers
3. pp.659-661 The Mexican Revolution
4. pp. 667-669 Post-war Expectations and Results
5. pp. 670-672 The League of Nations
6. pp. 677-678 Women in the Soviet Union
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
-What did the poet Wislawa Szymborska have in mind when she wrote that in the twentieth century, "A couple of problems weren't going to come up anymore: hunger, for example, and war, and so forth"?
-In what way does the Mexican Revolution appear to be a product of the technological developments of the early twentieth century? What other conditions promoted this revolution?
-What were the chief causes of World War I, and why were the Balkans so important in its origins?
-What promises were made by colonial powers during the war that were not kept afterward?
-What were the most important actions of the Soviet Union in the first decade after the Communist Revolution?
-In what ways was the United States a world leader in the decade following World War I? In what ways was it not?
1. Scientific and Technological Creativity
2. Gender Relations
3. Urbanization and Migration
4. The Downside of Progress
5. Outside Europe
6. World War I, 1914-18
7. The Russian Revolution
8. Post-War America
9. Methods of Production and Destruction: What Difference Do They Make?
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. Fritz Haber
2. Marie (Skladowska) Curie and Pierre Curie
3. Karen Horney
4. Margaret Mead
5. Mechanization of Agriculture
6. Urbanization
7. Balance of Power
8. Id, Ego, Superego
9. Darbar
10. Sun Yat-sen
11. Duma
12. Wilson's Doctrine of Self Determination
13. Zemstvo
14. Leon Trotsky v. Joseph Stalin
15. A. Mitchell Palmer
16. Weimar Republic
17. Skepticism
18. Totalitarian Governments
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 652-653 "Industrial power rose steadily..." to end of section.
2. pp. 654-655 Militarized Competition among the Great Powers
3. pp.659-661 The Mexican Revolution
4. pp. 667-669 Post-war Expectations and Results
5. pp. 670-672 The League of Nations
6. pp. 677-678 Women in the Soviet Union
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
-What did the poet Wislawa Szymborska have in mind when she wrote that in the twentieth century, "A couple of problems weren't going to come up anymore: hunger, for example, and war, and so forth"?
-In what way does the Mexican Revolution appear to be a product of the technological developments of the early twentieth century? What other conditions promoted this revolution?
-What were the chief causes of World War I, and why were the Balkans so important in its origins?
-What promises were made by colonial powers during the war that were not kept afterward?
-What were the most important actions of the Soviet Union in the first decade after the Communist Revolution?
-In what ways was the United States a world leader in the decade following World War I? In what ways was it not?
Chapter 20: World War II and the Cold War: The World in Peril, 1937-49
Topic Summaries: Be prepared to orally present three of these sections. Do not be tempted to just do the "short ones". Write a thesis statement for each section.
1. Portents of Disaster
2. The Contest of the "isms": Fascism and Communism
3. The Descent Toward World War
4. World War II
5. The Image of Humanity
6. The United Nations, Postwar Recovery, and the Origins of the Cold War
7. Entering the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: What Difference Does it Make
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. John Maynard Keynes
2. Sigmund Freud
3. fascio di combattimento
4. Anti-Comintern Pact
5. Guernica
6. Neville Chamberlain and "peace for our time"
7. Dunkirk
8. Battle of Stalingrad
9. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
10. Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
11. General Douglas Mac Arthur
12. The Nuremberg Trials
13. Holocaust
14. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 690-692 Japan
2. pp. 699-701 The War in the Pacific, 1937-42
3. pp. 703-705 War in Asia and the Pacific, 1942-5
4. pp. 706-707 Women and the War (including Women as Spoils of War: Japan's Comfort Women)
5. pp. 715-716 Resettlement
6. pp. 719-720 Economic Reconstruction and the Cold War
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
- How did the depression of 1929-39 affect the recovery from World War I? Please discuss the effects on different countries, such as, Germany, the USA, the USSR, Japan.
-How important were thugs in the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany? What roles did they play? Why did people decide in large numbers to follow them?
-Compare fascism and communism in terms of (1) power of the state; (2) power of the leader; (3) role of private property; (4) value put on warfare; (5) willingness to enter international, diplomatic relations with other nations as an equal; and (6) indivdual human rights.
-Warfare had an effect on the role of women, but the effect was different in different countires. Discuss these differences and similarities in the USA, the USSR, Germany, and Japan.
-Elie Wiesel reports losing his faith not only in his fellow humans but also in God as a result of his experiences in the Holocaust. How does this compare with other responses to this disaster and to the atomic bombing of Japan?
-What are the reasons given for the Cold War between the USA and the USSR? Which reason do you think was most significant?
1. Portents of Disaster
2. The Contest of the "isms": Fascism and Communism
3. The Descent Toward World War
4. World War II
5. The Image of Humanity
6. The United Nations, Postwar Recovery, and the Origins of the Cold War
7. Entering the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: What Difference Does it Make
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. John Maynard Keynes
2. Sigmund Freud
3. fascio di combattimento
4. Anti-Comintern Pact
5. Guernica
6. Neville Chamberlain and "peace for our time"
7. Dunkirk
8. Battle of Stalingrad
9. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
10. Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
11. General Douglas Mac Arthur
12. The Nuremberg Trials
13. Holocaust
14. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 690-692 Japan
2. pp. 699-701 The War in the Pacific, 1937-42
3. pp. 703-705 War in Asia and the Pacific, 1942-5
4. pp. 706-707 Women and the War (including Women as Spoils of War: Japan's Comfort Women)
5. pp. 715-716 Resettlement
6. pp. 719-720 Economic Reconstruction and the Cold War
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
- How did the depression of 1929-39 affect the recovery from World War I? Please discuss the effects on different countries, such as, Germany, the USA, the USSR, Japan.
-How important were thugs in the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany? What roles did they play? Why did people decide in large numbers to follow them?
-Compare fascism and communism in terms of (1) power of the state; (2) power of the leader; (3) role of private property; (4) value put on warfare; (5) willingness to enter international, diplomatic relations with other nations as an equal; and (6) indivdual human rights.
-Warfare had an effect on the role of women, but the effect was different in different countires. Discuss these differences and similarities in the USA, the USSR, Germany, and Japan.
-Elie Wiesel reports losing his faith not only in his fellow humans but also in God as a result of his experiences in the Holocaust. How does this compare with other responses to this disaster and to the atomic bombing of Japan?
-What are the reasons given for the Cold War between the USA and the USSR? Which reason do you think was most significant?
Chapter 21: Cold War and New Nations: Remaking the Post World War II World (1945-89)
Topic Summaries: Be prepared to orally present three of these sections. Do not be tempted to just do the "short ones". Write a thesis statement for each section.
1. The Cold War, 1945-89: USA vs. USSR
2. The Cold War and the Emergence of New Nations
3. The Emergence of the Third World
4. Terrorism
5. In Pursuit of Peace
6. NGOs and Transnationals
7. Legacies of the Cold War, Decolonization, Economic and Social Development: What Difference do they make?
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. Marshall Plan
2. Military-Industrial Complex
3. Vietminh
4. "Congo Crisis"
5. Warsaw Pact
6. Muhammad Mussadeq
7. ETA
8. Munich Olympics
9. Silent Spring
10. WHO
11. Multinationals
12. Oxfam
13. Proxy Wars
14. Postwar Years
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 729-730 The Soviet Union after Stalin (Nikita Khrushchev, 1953-64)
2. pp. 732-734 The Cuban Missile Crisis
3. pp. 738-740 Congo
4. pp. 746-749 Latin America
5. pp. 754-756 Demographics: Health, Migration, Urbanization, and the Green Revolution
6. pp. 761-763 NGOs and Transnationals
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
-What were the reasons for the Cold War competition between the USA and the USSR?
-Why did decolonization take place so quickly once the process has begun?
-How did the superpowers and the new nations attempt to use one another for their own benefit? Please give examples.
-What function do voluntary organizations serve in a society? Give examples of how a voluntary organization has changed the policies of a country.
-Why did ecological issues rise to such great importance in the period 1945-85? Give some examples of the issues.
-Many observers have termed the period 1945-73 in western Europe expecially a "golden age". Why? Would the same term hold for Africa, Asia, or Latin America in that period? Why or why not?
1. The Cold War, 1945-89: USA vs. USSR
2. The Cold War and the Emergence of New Nations
3. The Emergence of the Third World
4. Terrorism
5. In Pursuit of Peace
6. NGOs and Transnationals
7. Legacies of the Cold War, Decolonization, Economic and Social Development: What Difference do they make?
Identify the following terms and offer the WHC for each:
1. Marshall Plan
2. Military-Industrial Complex
3. Vietminh
4. "Congo Crisis"
5. Warsaw Pact
6. Muhammad Mussadeq
7. ETA
8. Munich Olympics
9. Silent Spring
10. WHO
11. Multinationals
12. Oxfam
13. Proxy Wars
14. Postwar Years
Focus Points: Write Concise Summary paragraphs for each of the following. Be sure to include topic sentences/summary sentences from each paragraph and define any terms that come from the section.
1. pp. 729-730 The Soviet Union after Stalin (Nikita Khrushchev, 1953-64)
2. pp. 732-734 The Cuban Missile Crisis
3. pp. 738-740 Congo
4. pp. 746-749 Latin America
5. pp. 754-756 Demographics: Health, Migration, Urbanization, and the Green Revolution
6. pp. 761-763 NGOs and Transnationals
Review Questions: Answer the following questions from the back of each chapter.
-What were the reasons for the Cold War competition between the USA and the USSR?
-Why did decolonization take place so quickly once the process has begun?
-How did the superpowers and the new nations attempt to use one another for their own benefit? Please give examples.
-What function do voluntary organizations serve in a society? Give examples of how a voluntary organization has changed the policies of a country.
-Why did ecological issues rise to such great importance in the period 1945-85? Give some examples of the issues.
-Many observers have termed the period 1945-73 in western Europe expecially a "golden age". Why? Would the same term hold for Africa, Asia, or Latin America in that period? Why or why not?
Essay Prep
CCOT/ CC
In preparation for two of your essays (CCOT and Comparison), as well as 2 elements of PERSIA, answer the following:
Change: What changed over the course of these three chapters? (use 4 examples / 2 elements of PERSIA in your answer)
Continuity: What stayed the same over the course of these three chapters (use 4 examples / 2 elements of PERSIA in your answer)
Compare/Contrast: Pick one item from these three chapters to compare and contrast from a different set of three chapters. Create a Compare / Contrast chart and/or Venn Diagram to assist you.
Change: What changed over the course of these three chapters? (use 4 examples / 2 elements of PERSIA in your answer)
Continuity: What stayed the same over the course of these three chapters (use 4 examples / 2 elements of PERSIA in your answer)
Compare/Contrast: Pick one item from these three chapters to compare and contrast from a different set of three chapters. Create a Compare / Contrast chart and/or Venn Diagram to assist you.
DBQ
In preparation for your DBQ essay, analyze the following document in terms of POV (Bias, Validity, Motivation, Societal Position, and World Historical Context) as well as "s/he would say that because...."
Refer to document starting on p. 552 (25.3 The Rape of Nanjing...)
Refer to document starting on p. 552 (25.3 The Rape of Nanjing...)
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