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Unit 2- History of Europe- Study Guide

1. What were the causes of WWI?

2. What was the spark that started WWI?

3. Describe the worldwide depression. How did this effect Germans?

Effect

What that means

PAY
COMPENSATION
(Reparations)
This organization of nations would
cooperate to keep peace.

GERMANYS
EMPIRE
Germany lost land to France, Poland, Belgium,
and Denmark. An area of Germany was even
separated from the mainland.

MASSIVE ARMY
CUTS
4. Complete the chart below concerning the Treaty of Versailles: *Remember BLAME
5. How did the Treaty of Versailles make the German people feel?

6. What were the causes of the Russian Revolution?

7. The Russian Revolution had what effect on World War I?

8. What was the result of the Russian Revolution?
9. Describe the Holocaust.

10. Adolf Hitler was the leader of what political party?

11. How was Hitler able to get Germans to believe in him?

12. Which war involved money and propaganda rather than fighting and increased tensions
between countries with the threat of nuclear weapons?
13. Define superpower and identify which two were involved in the Cold War.
14. The Cold War was cold because
15. What was the US worried that the Soviet Union would do?
16. What happened to East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell?

17. Identify Mikhail Gorbechev and explain how he changed the Soviet Union.

18. What caused the fall of the Soviet Union?

Identifications:
**Be able to DEFINE and EXPLAIN why these terms are important
1. Reparations
2.Holocaust
3.Berlin Wall
THEN, choose 3 additional terms from the list below and define AND explain the
significance

Anti- Semitism

Nazism

Trench Warfare

League of

Nations
Superpowers
Worldwide Depression

Iron Curtain

Communism

Czar Nicholas II

Adolf Hitler

Bloody Sunday

Militarism
Alliances

Imperialism

Nationalism

Treaty of Versailles

B Germany except blame for war

L Germany must give up parts of it land to nearby countries
A Germany must reduce its army
M Germany must pay huge sums of money to Allied Powers
E Germany must give up its empires in Africa

Rasputin