Final Study Guide Fall 2014

Hist 1020 Final Study Guide: Fall 2014
The test will consist of one essay questions (50 pts.) and 25 multiple choice (2 pts. Each)
Jefferson’s theory on alliances
*Primary causes of WWI
1) nationalism: Germany had just recently been united w/ astria-hungary left out. Italy was recently united as well (not in it's present form though).
2) Secret alliances. Britian had an alliance w/ france about africa, and having their back if anyone tried to take their territory there & vice versa. Germany & russia had an alliance and many other nations did too. the problem was that none of the other countries knew what would set off these alliances turning it into a World War.
3) France and Germany both wanted the alsace-loraine area.
4) Fighting over the balkans area and keeping Russia isolated froma warm water port.
5) death of franz ferdinand
6) Germany not following through entirely w/ the Schleffin plan and splitting their men making it take longer than expected to go through belgium. *Treaty of Versailles-was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years
*Reasons for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
FDR’s Alphabet Soup- The alphabet agencies (also New Deal agencies) were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some alphabet agencies were established by Congress, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Others were established through Roosevelt executive orders, such as the Works Progress Administration and the Office of Censorship, or were part of larger programs such as the many that belonged to the Works Progress Administration. The agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup. Some of the agencies still exist today, while others have merged with other departments and agencies or were abolished, or found unconstitutional.
The Age of Anxiety
*Truman Doctrine-Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War. United States President Harry S. Truman pledged to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere and impelled the US to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism or the Soviet Union.
*Name and describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression
Causes
Panic of 1893
Lack of diversity in national economy (birth of monopolies such as Rockefeller)
Overproduction / too much manufacturing
Natural course of capitalism
Layoffs  broke the consumer circle
Banks made poor and risky investments (no government regulations)
International trade decreased
U.S turned into a raw material producing country  too much to give and not enough receiving

How did the Great Depression affect minorities and women in the United States?
*Be able to define the Cold War-was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the United States, its NATO allies and powers in the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact.
*How did the Berlin Wall come about and how did it end? The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. http://history1900s.about.com/od/coldwa1/a/berlinwall.htm HUAC
*Marshall Plan: The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.’ The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947.
Holocaust
Kennan’s policy of containment
Why the League of Nations failed
Iron Curtain Speech- To alert the world what Stalin was doing. That he was in fact putting up barriers against the West, and building up Soviet domination behind those barriers. He (Stalin) controlled Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany. This formed what was known as the Eastern Bloc of Nations, and the British, United States, Canada, Australia and its allies formed the Western Bloc of Nations. This was the framework for what became known as the Cold War.
*Causes of WWII-
1)Germany Expansion
2)the great depression
3)
4) 5)Treaty of Versailles
6)Japan empire

What factors allowed for the Holocaust to progress?
Iranian Revolution
Ping Pong Diplomacy- The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese colleagues to visit the People's Republic. The Chinese felt that by opening a door to the United States, they could put their mostly hostile neighbors on notice about a possible shift in alliances. The United States welcomed the opportunity; President Richard M. Nixon had written: "We simply cannot afford to leave China outside the family of nations."

Sports as a tool of imperialism (New Guinea)
Orientalism
Highly motivated
The “looking glass” perspective
Made people of the middle east seem different/threatening
Stereotypes developed  representations differ upon experiences
“organized science”
Suggests that the middle east is stuck in time and will never advance
Constructed during the imperial conquests
How to understand natives so that we can conquer them
Objective knowledge organized into broad categories
Haves versus have-nots (power struggle)
*Reasons for the end of the Cold War-
1) the Soviet Union was seriously weakened by internal conflict and economic difficulties
2) the United States and the Soviet Union were able to destroy one another
3) the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunited
4) a recession forced the United States to cut military spending

Modern slavery statistics- https://www.freetheslaves.net/document.doc?id=34
Brief history of how Iran got to the Iranian Revolution (see Persepolis)
Globalization trends (maybe)
*Explain ideologies of the key countries leading into WWII
*Potsdam Conference
Bizonia
Berlin Blockade
Oslo Peace Accord- PLO- Palestinian Liberian Organization (terrorist attack on Israel)
Zionism
Balfour Declaration-Jewish people get their home land
Camp David Accords- Egypt, Israel, US Peace Plan. US pumps $to keep them on good terms.
***Those marked with an asterisk could combine to make for a good essay/short answer question.