Tuesday, April 29, 2014

World War II

German Catholics. 
Aryans                                                           
Politburo                                            
Manchuria.                            
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek                                                      
Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia
the Rhineland.                                                
panzer           
Luftwaffe
blitzkrieg
sitzkrieg
fifth columnists
quisling
V-E Day
V-J Day
"Desert Fox"
amphibious
partisans
summit
Operation Overlord
D-day
Fortress Europe
island hopping
banzai charge
kamikazes
"Big Three"
lebensraum
Axis.                         
The Spanish Civil War Czechoslovakia.                    
Neville Chamberlain              
Munich Conference
Russia.
Poland.                                                           
invasion of Poland                    
Ardennes Forest                                                           
The ''Miracle of Dunkirk"
Marshal Henri Petain.           
Charles de Gaulle.                             
North Africa.                         
Winston Churchill                                         
the Battle of Britain
The German invasion of Russia
Pearl Harbor.                                    
El Alamein                                                     
The island-hopping
Iwo Jima
Reichstag.
Japan during the 1930s.
Specific examples of how Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty.
Germany occupation of France.
The Yalta conference                                                                                                                  
foreign policies of Chamberlain and Churchill,

Adolph Hitler's crucial mistakes. 

Saturday, March 29, 2014

1920'-30 Between Tow Wars

Versailles Treaty                                                                            
October 1929 in the U.S.A                                                                                                     
the New Deal and the three r’s                                                    
Ramsay MacDonald.                                                       
The Statute of Westminster                                   
dole                                                       
Léon Blum                                                                                                     
Maginot Line          
Tools or characteristics of dictators                    
Alexander III                    
Alexander II         
Nicholas II   
Kerensky               
Russo Japanese war                 
October Manifesto  
Rasputin                       
Lenin                
Bloody Sunday        
Bolsheviks & Mensheviks 
Trotsky                                                                                                              
war communism       
The New Economic Policy    
White and White Russians.                                              
Five-Year Plans                               
differences between fascism and communism.                                                      
factors that existed in Germany that assisted Hitler's amazing rise to power in Germany.  
weakness of the Weimar Republic                                                               
resentment of the "war guilt" clause              
Economic problems with inflation and unemployment                                                            
Fear over the spread of communism          
Hitler's personal leadership and propaganda techniques                       
Aryans Catholics                      
Mein kampf 
Reichstag                                                                             
Il Duce                                               
Lateran Treaties           
autarky        
Fascist party                                        
Comintern 

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

World War I Study Guide

Positive outlook of the early 1900’s
Andrew Carnegie
Long term and immediate causes of World War I
Bismarck's System.
Three Emperors' League
The Triple Alliance
Entente Cordiale
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
The Course of World War I
Schlieffen Plan
Battle of the Marne
Trench warfare
Stalemate
Hindenburg
Reasons for Russia’s collapse in WWI
the sinking of the Lusitania
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Reasons theUnited States entered World War I
Zimmerman Note
armistice
General Pershing
Nov 11 1918
Preventing World War II
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
reparations
Treaty of Versailles treatment of Germany and creation of new nations
Anschluss
Paris Peace Conference
David Lloyd George
George Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
War Guilt Clause
League of Nations
Invasion of the Ruhr Valley.
Charles Dawes
Locarno Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Washington Naval Conference

Friday, January 17, 2014

Napoleon "Man of Destiny"

Directory                                                                                                      
Battle of Egypt (Nile)                                                                                                
Code Napoleon                                                                      
Lycee Academy       
Government of the 1st Consul                      
Council of State                                              
Tribunate                                  
Legislature                                      
Senate                                                                                      
Napoleon's # 1 obstacle preventing him from conquering Europe                          
Continental System                                                                                              
Concordant of 1801                                                                               
Napoleonic Code                                             
civil law                      
criminal law                       
commercial law                 
Corsica          
Josephine                                                        
Ulm   
Leipzig                                                                                                                        
guerillas     
Elba 
Coup de etat                                                      
Be ready to describe the cause, Napoleon’s successes or failures, and immediate consequences of the Battles of Austerlitz, Waterloo and Napoleon’s invasion of Russia                                                 
Duke of Wellington                                                                                                    
Helena                                                                                                      
Lord Nelson                                             
Battle of Trafalgar