Unit VI: Crisis and Achievement (1900 - 1945)

Unit VII: The 20th Century since 1945

Causes of WWI

14 Points – US effort to end WWI

Turkey National Leader– Kemal Ataturk – Secular Reform and Modernization

Czar Nicholas II – Incompetent Handling of WWI -Abdicated -

Executed

Lenin – Leader of the Bolshevik/Russian Revolution –

Promised Land Bread and Peace

Lenin - New Economic Policy

Stalin – Five Year Plan

Ukraine Famine – Collectivization

Hitler Defeated by Russian Winter

Germany - Weimar Republic

Great Depression, Inflation, Economic Problems – Rise of Hitler

Holocaust/Kristallnacht

Allied Appeasement

Annexation of Czechoslovakia

Hitler – Invaded Poland – Started WWII – Blitzkrieg Lightening War

Russian Winter Defeated Hitler Germany

Hitler, Fascism, Mien Kampf

Mussolini – Italy - Fascism

Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

WWII – D-Day – Allied Brought the War back to Europe

Nuremberg Trials - Nazi Officers were charged for Crime Against Humanity

Decolonization – Post WWII

USSR - Satellites

Countries / Warsaw Pact

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – Tension Increased in South Asia

Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika, Glasnost

Cold War

Marshall Plan

Iron Curtain

Vietnam War/Korean War

Before - Berlin Wall - After

Cuban Missile Crisis

NATO v. Warsaw Pact

Middle East – Zionism, Balfour Declaration – Jewish State

Iranian Revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini – Built an Islamic Fundamentalist State

Palestine – Israel Conflict – Two Peoples fighting over the Same

Land

Iraq – Saddam Hussein – Murdering Kurds Minorities

Suez Canal – Strategic Importance