Read: William Duiker, Contemporary World History, fifth edition chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8.
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Chapter 5 Chapter 6
Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter Five:
Places you should be able to locate on an historical map:
Map of modern Middle East:
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/middle_east_pol_2013.pdf
Map of North America and Mexico:
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/north_america_ref_2010.pdf
Map of South America:
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/south_america_ref_2010.pdf
Turkey
Lebanon
Syria
Transjordan (Jordan)
Iraq
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
Argentina
Brazil
Vocabulary:
Sepoy Rebellion
Gopal Gokhale
Indian National Congress
Bilwantrao Tilak
Muslim League
Mahatma Gandhi
satyagraha
Government of India Act, 1921
Jawaharlal Nehru
Young Turks
Mustapha Kemal
Reza Khan and Pahlavi dynasty
Balfour Declaration
Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia
Comintern
New Culture Movement
Lu Xun
May Fourth Movement
Guomindang or Nationalist Party
Chiang Kai-sheck
Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist Party
Northern Expedition
Shanghai Massacre
People’s Liberation Army
Zaibatsu
Kita Ikki
Banana Republics
Argentina and Juan Peron
Bazil and Getulia Verges
Mexico and Institutional Revolutionary Party
Focus Questions:
What made nationalism in Asia and Africa between the World Wars different from European Nationalism?
In the development of Indian nationalism between the wars, what roles were played by the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League, Gandhi, and Nehru?
How did Turkey become a secular state and how did the leadership of Iran seek to imitate Turkey? How did the “problem of Palestine” begin in the period between the wars?
How did the ideas and programs of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong differ in the interwar years?
Why did Japan turn away from western style liberalism in the interwar years?
What were some factors that slowed modernization in the Latin American states?
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Chapter Six
Vocabulary:
Adolph Hitler
Mein Kampf
Kristallnacht
Franco and the Civil War
Munich
Appeasement
Totalitarianism
Mussolini
March on Rome
Italian Fascism
Nazi Party
SA and SS
Enabling Act
Nuremberg Laws
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Rape of Nanjing
Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
Blitzkrieg
Vichy France
Battle of Britain
Pearl Harbor
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Normandy Invasion
Battle of Midway
island hopping
Final Solution
Tehran
Yalta
Potsdam
Focus Questions:
Define fascism. What were the origins and appeal of fascism in Italy, Germany, and elsewhere after World War I?
How did World War I and the Great Depression lead to Hitler’s rise to power in 1933?
What were the motives for and accomplishments of Japan’s involvement in Asia in the 1930’s?
What were Joseph Stalin’s policies and their effects on the Soviet Union in the 1930’s?
How did the Allies defeat Germany and Italy in Europe and how did the United States defeat Japan?
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Chapter Seven:
Vocabulary:
Yalta
Tito
Iron Curtain
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
George Kennan and Containment
Berlin Blockade
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
PLA
mass line
Chinese Civil War
Taiwan
Korean War
Douglas MacArthur
Ho Chi Minh
Geneva Conference, 1954
Nikita Khrushchev
peaceful co-existence
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ngo Dinh Diem
Viet Cong
Richard M. Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
detente
Paris Peacy Treaty 1973
Afghanistan
Ronald Reagan and evil empire
Sandanistas and Contras
Focus Questions:
What events and policies in Europe of the United States and the Soviet Union marked the beginnings of the Cold War?
What were the major events of the Cold War in Asia, including China, Korea, and Indochina?
What was detente? What were its successes and why did it seemingly fail in the 1970’s and 1980’s?
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Chapter Eight:
Places you should be able to locate on a map:
Mexico
Nicaragua
Cuba
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Vocabulary:
Dwight Eisenhower
Red Scare
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC
Malcolm X and the Black Muslims
Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
war on poverty
Richard Nixon
Watergate
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
stagflation
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran hostage crisis
Ronald Reagan and supply-side economics
Bill Clinton, a “new Democrat”
Saddam Hussein
al-Queda
Liberation Theology
Juan and Eva Peron
Fidel Castro
Ernesto Che Guevra
Salvador Allende
Augusto Pinochet
Sandanista Liberation Front
Hugo Chavez
Focus Questions:
What were the major political events in the United State in the 1950’s and 60’s?
Why did the politics of the United States move “to the right” under Nixon and Reagan?
What impact did the Cold War have on Cuba, Chile, and Central America?
What political challenges were experiences in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina?
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