The World to 1945

The First World War

Prelude to War

Formation of the Triple Alliance War in the Balkans Congress of Berlin (1878) German Alliance with Austria The Triple Alliance (1882)

The Triple Entente (1907) The Bosnian Crisis (1908) The Balkan Wars (1912-1913)

Key TermsCongress of BerlinKaiser Wilhelm IIThe Triple Entente

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888-1918)

The World War

Sarajevo and the Outbreak of War (1914) The Assassination German and Austrian Response The Triple Entente’s Response

The World War (cont’d)

The War from 1914 to 1916The Western FrontThe Eastern FrontThe Balkans ItalyThe War at Sea

Key TermsCentral PowersSchlieffen Plan

The World War (cont’d)

The World War (cont’d)

The World War (cont’d)

The World War (cont’d)

The War in 1916 Verdun and the Somme Russia and Romania

1917: The Critical Year The Unites States Enters the War The Withdrawal of Russia

The War in 1918 The Final German Effort Allied Success in the Middle East Breakdown in Germany Armistice

Key TermsBattle of Verdun

The World War (cont’d)

Character of the WarPeacemaking

The PeacemakersThe Treaty of Versailles

The League of Nations and Colonies

GermanyThe EastReparations

Evaluation of the Peace

Key TermsTreaty of VersaillesLeague of Nations

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The Americas

Post-War United States

The Progressive Movement (1900-1920) Foreign Policy under Progressive Presidents Woodrow Wilson (1913-1924)

Prohibition Missionary Diplomacy Red Scare

Hoover-Stimson Doctrine The Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

The New Deal Foreign Policy

Key TermsProgressive MovementHoover-Stimson DoctrineThe New Deal

Postwar Latin America

Latin America in the Global EconomyLatin America in WWILatin America’s Relationship to the U.S.

Key TermsGood Neighbor Policy

Postwar Latin America

Government Argentina

UCR Juan Domingo Perón

(1944-45, 1946-52)

Brazil Getulio Vargas (1930-1945)

Mexico Revolution of 1910-1920 The PRI Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940)

Key TermsJuan PerónGetulio VargasPRILázaro Cárdenas

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Europe

Postwar Europe

The Age of AnxietyRelativismRelativity

The Changing Role of Women

Key TermsrelativismTheory of Relativity

Postwar Europe

Experiments in Government Italy

Benito Mussolini (1922-1945) The Great Depression and its

Impact Socialist Experiments in Western

Europe National Socialism in Germany

The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) The Third Reich (1933-1945)

Key TermsBenito MussolinifascismWeimar RepublicGustav Stresemann Third Reich

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Central Asia

Communism in Russia

The Russian Revolution (1917) Stresses and Strains of WWI Fall of the Monarchy The March Revolution The Provisional Government and the

Soviets The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks The October Revolution

The Rise of Soviet Nationalism New Economic Policy (NEP) Joseph Stalin (1924-1953)

Key TermsRasputinBolsheviksVladimir LeninLeon TrotskyJoseph Stalin

Secular and Islamic Nationalismin the Middle East

TurkeyIranEgypt, Syria-

Palestine, IraqSaudi Arabia

Key TermsMustafa KemalReza PahlaviAbdul Aziz ibn Saud

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East Asia

Nationalism and Nonviolence in India

The Amritsar MassacreMohandas Gandhi

Salt March

Key TermsAmritsar MassacreMohandas Gandhisatyagraha

Nationalism in Asia

ChinaJapan

Key TermsSun YixianJiang JieshiShangai MassacreMao ZedongManzhouguo

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The Second World War

World War II

German Preparation (1933-1936)Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)German Eastward Expansion

(1938-1939)Munich TreatyNazi-Soviet Pact

Key TermsMunich Treaty

World War II

Hitler’s War (1939-1941)German Strategy Invasion of Poland (Sept 1939)The Phony War (Sept 1939-Mar 1940)Conquest of France (June 1940)The Battle of Britain (Aug 1940-Dec 1940)German Invasion of Russia (1941)

Key TermsBlitzkrieg Battle of Britain

World War II (cont’d)

East Asia and the Pacific (1937-1942)Rape of Nanjing

(Dec 1937)Pearl Harbor

(December 7, 1941)Battle of the Midway

(June 4-7, 1942)

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Isoroku Yamamoto

Key TermsBattle of the Midway

World War II

North Africa and Europe (1942-1943) Battle for North Africa Liberation of Italy (1943) Stalingrad (Feb 1943)

and Kursk (July 1943) Civilian Life Resistance Movements Nazi Mass Murder

Key TermsErwin Rommel

World War II

The Defeat of Germany (1944-1945)D-Day (June 6, 1944)

The Defeat of Japan (1942-1945)Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Legacy of WW II

Key TermsD-Day