Forum for questions concerning Advanced Placement at Buffalo Grove High School
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Week of March 28th........
This entire week our focus will be on the second World War. We will spend a great deal of time talking about combat but also discuss new colonial revolutions and attempts to break away from European control. This week we will also go over your practice exams that you completed before break. In the middle of the week, we will watch some war time propaganda courtesy of Walt Disney.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
SPRITE Notes for Chapter 29......
Social
Soviets
Proletariat
Political
Impact of WWI and the Mexican Revolution on Latin America?
Primary goal of the 1910 Mexican Revolution?
What is the PRI? How is it tied to the Mexican Revolution of 1910?
What country is the dominant foreign power in Latin America after WWI?
How did Russia end participation in WWI?
What Asian country played a major factor in domestic Chinese affairs from 1890-1945?
From what communist country did China receive foreign assistance?
Revolutionary Alliance/ Sun Yat-sen (China)
How was communism in China different than Russia? Proletariat
Guomindang
Chiang Kai-shek
May Fourth movement
Long March
Adolf Hitler
Totalitarian government
1932 German election results?
Religious
Nothing for this test
Intellectual/ Technology
Competing government systems (Democracy, Fascism and Communism)
Economy
Europe by mid-1920’s= stability (for most countries)
U.S. Economy is extremely strong immediately following WWI
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Features of the Soviet Economy?
What triggered the Great Depression?
Actions governments took in reaction to the Great Depression?
New Deal
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Chapter 29 Study Guide......
McCabe Name:__________________
A.P. World History
Chapter 29 Study Guide
The World Between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response
Introduction- The Roaring Twenties
1. In the art world, ______________________ became the head of the cubist movement.
2. What were some examples of middle-class women participating in popular culture?
A.
B.
C.
3. Identify four countries that granted women suffrage rights following World War I.
A.
B.
C.
D.
4. Describe how Henry Ford’s assembly line worked.
5. The U.S. Senate rejected the __________________ Treaty refusing to enter the __________________________.
6. Diplomatically, the U.S. pursued an ____________________ policy for two decades, refusing _____________________ alliances.
7. What government system did people fear in the United States?
8. Describe Japan’s new phase of Industrialization during the 1920’s.
9. In Japan, a population of _______ million in 1900 had increased to _________ million by 1940.
10. Who formed the Fascist Party of Italy?
Revolution: The First Waves
11. Prior to the Mexican Revolution, the regime of _________________ had been in power since 1876.
12. Who was the first challenger to the regime mentioned above?
13. The Mexican revolution began in what year?
14. Identify: Pancho Villa-
15. Identify: Emiliano Zapata-
16. Identify: Victoriano Huerta-
17. The election of ____________________ brought an end to the revolution.
18. What were some of the promises contained in the Mexican Constitution of 1917?
A.
B.
C.
D.
D.
E.
19. Identify: ejidos-
20. . _____________________ was the name given to a Mexican movement that sought to glorify Mexico’s Native American heritage.
21. What did artists such as Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco paint on public buildings?
22. Identify: Cristeros-
23. What single party came to dominate Mexican politics during the 1920’s and 1930’s?
24. What city saw the beginning of the 1917 Revolution in Russia?
25. Identify: Soviet-
26. A ________________ provisional government took control of the country for 8 months after the revolution.
27. Identify: Alexander Kerensky-
28. List some of the reasons why Russia had a second revolution 1917 (shortcomings of the government)
A.
B.
C.
29. What group took control after the second revolution in November (October on the Russian calendar).
30. After Lenin took over, how did Russia end the German threat during WWI?
31. Identify: Red Army-
32. The ____________________________ was Lenin’s answer to increase food production and control economic decisions
33. Identify: Comintern-
34. In what year did the last emperor of China abdicate his throne?
35. After the Qing dynasty fell, who was in the best position to take power?
36. What foreign power started to heavily affect China during the mid-1890’s (even defeating then in a war)?
37. Who was head of the Revolutionary Alliance?
38. The above mentioned leader conceded leadership of China in 1912 to which military warlord?
39. Japan was able to occupy territory in China held by ____________ after they entered an alliance on the side of the allies in World War I.
40. Identify: May Fourth Movement-
41. What nearby country’s socialist victory made China consider adopting a Marxist government to save China?
42. Identify: Li Dazhao-
43. Li Dazhao saw ____________________, rather than industrial workers, as the vanguard of the revolution.
44. The Nationalist Party of China was also known by what name?
45. Identify: Whampoa Military Academy-
46. As rival political groups struggled for power, what part of the population was suffering the most? What percentage of the population did they represent?
47. Who was the first to recognize the importance of the Chinese peasantry in the success of the revolution?
48. Who assumed power of the Nationalist Party after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925?
49. The open conflict between communists and Chiang’s Nationalist party started when Nationalists gunned down and beheaded workers in _________________.
50. Identify: Long March-
51. Where was the new communist center of China located in 1934?
The Global Great Depression
52. Why did the price of food dramatically decrease in the mid-1920’s?
53. Why was this bad for farmers?
54. In regards to their economies, Western nations were often more concerned about repayments of ____________ and constructing ___________________ to protect their own industries than about facilitating balanced world economic growth.
55. The collapse of which country’s stock market triggered a huge world-wide depression?
56. How did the depression affect the Soviet Union?
57. The worldwide depression caused citizens of many countries to seek solutions from radical parties on both the ___________ and the ___________.
58. Identify: Popular Front-
59. Many of the _________________________ states increased government spending, providing new levels of social insurance against illness and unemployment.
60. What country developed the world’s first television industry?
61. Identify: New Deal-
The Authoritarian Response
62. In Germany, the impact of the depression lea to a new______________ regime.
63. Fascism in Germany and Italy was a product of ________________________.
64. Why did the following groups with Germany support Hitler’s bid for power?
Artisans-
The middle class-
65. Did Hitler’s National Socialist Party (NAZI) win a majority of votes in the 1932 election?
66. Identify: Totalitarian State-
67. Government economic planning in Germany helped to restore production levels with a heavy emphasis on ________________ construction.
68. Before 1940, what measures were passed against the Jewish population of Germany?
A.
B.
C.
69. What country did Mussolini’s fascist Italy successfully attack in 1935?
70. What was the name of the Spanish fascist party?
71. Identify: Corporatism-
72. President ___________________________ of Mexico (1934-1940) redistributed over 40 million acres of land to create communal farms.
73. Once _____________________________ had taken power of Brazil (1872-1954), he launched a new kind of centralized political program that imposed federal administrators over the state governments.
74. As president of Argentina, Juan Peron was able to forge an alliance between which three groups?
A.
B.
C.
75. Military officers in Japan completed a conquest of the Chinese province of ___________________ without the consent of the civilian government.
76. By the end of 1938, what foreign territories (in part or whole) were held by Japan?
A.
B.
C.
77. While the depression hit __________________ hard, it suffered far less than many western nations did as a result of active government policies.
78. Identify: Korekiyo Takahashi-
79. What percentage of the world trade was controlled by Japan in 1936?
80. ________________________ was the creation of large, state-run farms, rather than individual holdings as in the west.
81. _________________________ remained a major weakness in the Soviet economy, demanding a higher percentage of labor force than was common under industrialization
82. Stalin’s government developed the ___________________ to begin to clear priorities for industrial development including expected output levels and new facilities.
83. Identify: Socialist Realism-
84. Identify: Politburo-
Friday, March 11, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Chapter 28 GSPRITE Notes......
Geography
Which countries were on which side?
Western Front
Eastern Front
Southern or Italian Front
Colonies outside of Europe (Which countries had them and which did not)
Territory shifts after WWI
Social
Women in war
How did the war affect the home fronts of countries involved?
How many people died in the war?
What groups in Egyptian society benefited from British economic reforms
Dinshawai Incident
Political
How long was the war?
What part of Europe starts war?
Events leading to the outbreak of war?
Surrender of Germany at end of the war?
Treaty of Versailles
Indian National Congress Party
B.G. Tilak
Double colonization of Egypt?
How do the British handle Egyptian Independence?
Differences between Indian and Egyptian Independence?
Intellectual/Technological
New Weapons of war-Which is the most deadly?
Which new technology was responsible for bringing the US into conflict?
Economic
American involvement in WWI before 1917?
How did Japan profit from war?
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