AP World History - Units 7 and 8 pat 1 Questions (notebooks 42, 43, 44)

1. Provide the three land empires that ended in the 1900s? 

Austro-hungarian empire,Ottoman empire,Russian empire

2.Provide two common themes in the fall of these land empires.

The lack of industry in the empires ethnic conflicts,agricultural based

3.Who was the leader who helped form the People’s Republic of China? 

Mae Zedong

4. What was going on in China from 1912-1949, that was put on hold from 1937-45 for WWII? 

Chinese Civil War

5.  What was one of the things the Ottoman Empire depended on for their economy? 

Agriculture

6.  What was one conflict lost by tsarist Russia that contributed to its overthrow? 

Russo-Japanes

7.  Name the two gentlemen that rocked the foundation of science in the early 1900s. 

Planck and Einstein

8.  Name their two theories/fields of study. 

relativity and quantum mechanics

9.  What are the two factors that can impact time? 

Speed and Location/gravity

10.  Provide three members of the Triple Entente. 

France,Britain and Russia

11.  Provide three members of the Central Powers / Triple Alliance. 

Germany,Italy and Austria Hungary

12.  Provide four causes for WWI. 

Alliances,Competition,Nationalism, and Balkan war

13.  What is the term used to describe shifting an entire country’s economy toward the war effort. 

total war

14.  This is the term used to describe repeating a governmental message over and over to the population. 

Propaganda

15.  Provide three different technologies/weapons used in WWI.

Barbed wire,Machine guns,gas,submarines, planes, tanks, artillery

16.  What was the nickname for the generation of young adults during the WWI era? 

Lost Generation

17.  This is the name for the 19^th-century belief that humans were on the verge of discovering the perfect society and mastering the universe.

Positivism

18.  Who came up with this philosophy? 

Auguste Comte

19.  Provide the three stages of this philosophy. 

Primitive,organized, Positive stage

20.  Which field of study ruined the idea in #32 by stating subatomic elements were random, everywhere, and popping in and out of existence? 

Quantum mechanics

21.  Which concept ruined the idea in #32 by determining we could not travel throughout the universe without massive differences in time? 

Relativity

22.  According to Einstein, what is interchangeable with energy? 

Matter

23.  What is his formula for this discovery? 

E=mc squared

24.  This was the event where the Turks forcibly removed a certain ethnicity for fear it may actively rebel and join the Russians who were getting closer.

Armenian genocide

25.  This is how WWI was considered a “World War’ in Africa. 

Germany lost control of the colonies in Africa from britain

26.  This is how WWI was considered a “World War’ in Asia. 

Germany lost colonies to Japan

27.  This is the event in which the British supplied non-Turks in the Middle East to rebel against the Ottoman Empire. 

Arab revolt

28.  What was promised to the non-Turks by the British in exchange for their cooperation in rebelling against the Ottoman Empire? 

Self determination

29. This is the state practice of extreme authoritarian control, hyper nationalism, and anti-communism. 

Fascism

30. This was the classicide committed against successful peasants and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s the resulted in the death of more than 6 million Soviets due to execution, prison camps, and the ensuing famine. 

Dekulakization

31. This was the show trial and murder of thousands of government and military officials by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938.

the great purge

32. What war in 1905 led to changes in the Russian government? 

Russo-Japanese War

33.  What was the name of the new representative assembly for Russia? 

The Duma

34.  What was the name of the man who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917? 

Vladimir Lenin

35.  What group helped the man from #3 take over the Russian government? 

Bolshevik

36.  Provide the three things promised to Russia peasants during the Russian Revolution. 

Peace,Land,Food

37.  Provide the name of the leader whose entire family was murdered by the Bolsheviks. 

Czar Nicholas II

38.  Provide one way the leader of the Bolsheviks gave the peasants what they wanted. 

Vladimir Lenin distributed land to the working class and attempted to provide food

39.  What was the new name of Tsarist Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution (any name for it works). 

The soviet union

40.  What was the name of the new plan to fix the Soviet economy in 1921? 

New Economic Policy (NEP)

41.  In what ways was this new plan NOT communist? 

Competition, and profiting from surplus

42.  Who took over the USSR after the man from #3 died in 1924? 

Joseph Stalin

43. Name the totalitarian dictators of the 1930s. 

Italy:Mussolini,USSR: Stalin Nazi,Germany:Hitler

44.  Provide  examples of loyal military units for these totalitarians. 

Black Shirts and SS

45.  Provide their secret police groups. 

Gestapo

46.  Provide two examples of murder or purges used to stay in power by these totalitarians.

Night of Long Knives and Great Purges

47.  Provide examples of prison camps used to contain political enemies and prisoners of war for these totalitarian rulers. 

gulags and Concentration Camps

48.  Provide examples of fascist leaders. 

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler

49.  Provide characteristics of fascism. 

Nationalistic, and Anti-Communist

50.  What was the nickname for the booming US economy in the 1920s? 

The Roaring Twenties

51.  How did Henry Ford increase production efficiency? 

He developed the assembly line

51.  Provide the three main causes for overproduction in the 1920s. 

World War 1 production,Loans credit separations,Speculation buying

52.  Provide one reason people were able to buy so many stocks and cause their prices to inflate. 

More efficient banking and credit system (loans). Investors would use these loans to buy large quantities of stocks Margin buying

53.  What entity or system failed that caused the world’s first global depression? 

Banking system

54.  What was the new economic strategy developed to provide jobs with public works? 

Keynesian Economics

55.  Who invented this new policy? 

John Maynard Keynes

56.  What type of system was it (i.e., capitalism is supply-side).  

Demand Side

57.  Provide four examples of government-funded projects or spending to create jobs. 

Roads, Autobahn, Dams, and Military

58.  What two leaders adopted this new economic strategy. 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Adolf Hitler

59.  Which country succeeded in pulling itself out of depression and thriving in the 1930s? 

Nazi Germany

60.  Which country took a spending and poor/unemployment aid approach? 

France

61.  What was the name of FDR’s program designed to increase government intervention in the economy? 

New Deal

62.  Provide three ways this new program increased the government’s intervention. 

Welfare, social security, and increased taxes

63.  What was the name of the fascist dictator in the Spanish Civil War?

Francisco Franco

64.  What were the names of the two sides during the Spanish Civil War? 

Communists, and Nationalists

65.  Which side was supported by Germany? 

Nationalists

66.  Which side was supported by the USSR? 

Republicans

67.  What painter protested the violence demonstrated by Nazis firebombings? 

pablo picasso

68.  What was the name of this painting? 

Guernica

69.  Provide the main Axis Powers of WWII. 

Germany,Japan, and Italy

70.  Provide the four main Allied Powers. 

Great Britain,United States, France, soviet Union

71.  Which country voluntarily joined Germany first in the 1938 Anschluss? 

Austria

72.  What is the name of the area in Czechoslovakia that was German? 

Sudetenland

73.  What country was invaded by the Germans and Soviets in 1939, thus starting WWII in Europe? 

Poland

74.  What was the name of the agreement to jointly invade Poland by Germany and the USSR? 

Nazi-Soveit Non-Aggression Pact

75.  What was the name of Hitler’s desire to unite all Germans into one German nation? 

Pan-Germanism

76.  What was the name of the agreement to let Hitler have the Sudetenland if he promised to stop expanding? 

The Munich Agreement of 1938

77.  The strategy described in #70 is giving an enemy what they want to avoid conflict.  What is the term associated with that policy? 

Appeasement

78.  This was the name of the city in which the Japanese killed and raped hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. 

Nanking/Nanjing

79.  Provide the groups or ethnicities killed systematically by the Nazis during the Holocaust. 

Slav, Jews, and Gypsies

80.  Which battles were the turning points in the European Theatre? 

The battle of Stalingrad and Battle of D-Day

81.  Which battle was the turning point in the Pacific Theatre? 

Battle of they Midway

82.  What Anglo-American inventions allowed them to locate Axis planes and submarines? 

Sonar and Radar

83.  Which country broke the German code? 

United Kingdom

84.  Which country broke the Japanese code? 

United states

85.  What was the new German tactic where enemies were overwhelmed by quick movements of planes, tanks, automobiles, and infantry? 

Blitzkrieg Strategy

86.  What was the name of the new strategy of bombing entire cities repeatedly? 

Firebombing

87.  Provide the names of the death camps. 

Chelmno and Auschwitz