World War I, Versailles and Russian Revolution, Twenties, Thirties Review Sheet

Know the following people – their roles, which country they represented and which side they were on:

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg, The Red Baron	The Big Three: Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson	Tsar Nicholas II/Rasputin, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx
Mussolini, Hitler, Francisco Franco	Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin	Leon Blum, Eduard Daladier
Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Ernst Roehm	Gustav Streseman

WWI Battles/Alliances: Know who they were and why they are important:

Somme	The Schlieffen Plan and the Battle of the Marne	The Alliances: The Central Powers; Allied Powers; The difference between these and the Triple Entente; Triple Alliance
Eastern Front	The nature of trench warfare and the effect it had on France.

Twenties/Thirties:

The Dole: What it was, why it was necessary	The Popular Front – goals, etc., the political divisions in France	Why Italy chose Mussolini – what did he bring to the table.
Nuremburg Laws, How Hitler came to power, German interventions in: Austria, the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, Spain	Munich Conference, Appeasement, Non-Aggression Pact	Battles: Guernica, Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
New intellectual movements: Surrealism, Dada Movement, Relativism (Einstein and how his theory impacted European assumptions), Psychology, Fascism, Communism
The Rapallo and Locarno treaties and the Kellogg-Briande Pact

Main Ideas:

14 Points vs. British and French Goals for the peace of 1918	Treaty of Versailles: Fair or unfair – be sure to consider the punishment and the question of war guilt
Technology versus tactics, i.e. machine guns vs. massed assaults, the “Cruiser Rules” of naval warfare	Technology: Submarines, gas, airplanes, machine guns, trenches, The high casualty counts – why did the war continue?	The causes of the war, basic events of the summer of 1914, German war plans – Schlieffen Plan, Wilson’s ideas about the causes of the war
Russian Revolutions – goals of the March and October revolutions	Stalin’s Tactics: The Gulags, Socialist Realism, Show Trials, Ukrainian Famine	What happened to the “victorious Allies” at the end of WWI and Versailles
Why France was so utterly divided and the consequences of that division.	What made Fascism, and extremism in general, attractive to Italians, Germans, and others during the twenties and thirties.	Why the British and French didn’t react to German and Italian aggression during the 1930s.
What exactly Hitler was doing – what were his goals.	The Nuremburg Laws: what they did, how they affected the German people – Jews in particular.	The benefits of citizenship.