Chapter 23-24 Test Study Guide

Fascism, Communism, Totalitarianism

• Leaders & Countries: Understand key leaders associated with these ideologies and the countries they led.

Acts of Aggression Prior to WWII

• Ethiopia: Description and sequence of events.
• Manchuria: Details of the aggression.
• Rhineland: Order and context of events.
• Anschluss: What happened during this event?
• Munich Conference/Czechoslovakia: Outcomes and significance.

Relationship Between Great Depression & Rise of Dictators

• Explore how the economic downturn facilitated the rise of authoritarian leaders.

Key Figures

• Benito Mussolini: His role and impact.
• Joseph Stalin
  • Five Year Plans: Goals and outcomes.
  • Collectives: Purpose and impact.
  • Purges: Stalin’s methods of maintaining power.

Weimar Republic

• Understand its structure and its fall.

Appeasement Policy

• Analysis of its application and consequences before WWII.

Hitler’s Rise to Power

• Attempted Coup: Key details of the event.
• Mein Kampf: Its significance in Nazi ideology.
• Third Reich: Formation and implications.
• Chancellor: Hitler’s rise to this position.
• Fire of Reichstag: Events and impact.
• Enabling Act: How it consolidated Hitler's power.
• Night of Long Knives: Purge within the Nazi party.

Persecution of Jews

• Nuremberg Laws: Measures against Jews.
• Kristallnacht: What occurred during this night.
• Stages of Holocaust
  • Defining as Others: Initial stages of discrimination.
  • Removal of Civil Rights: Legislation against Jews.
  • Concentration: Establishing ghettos and camps.
  • The Final Solution: Implementation of genocide.
• Holocaust/genocide: Overview and impact.

Start of War & Key Battles

• Invasion of Poland: Marks the beginning of WWII.
• Blitzkrieg: Tactic and its effectiveness.
• Invasion of Norway, Lowlands & France: Expansion of Axis powers.
• Invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa): Key events and outcomes.
• Battle for Britain (Operation Sea Lion): Description and significance.
• Battle of the Bulge: Key turning point in the war.
• Battle at Stalingrad: Importance and impact.
• D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy.
• Pearl Harbor: Trigger for U.S. entry into the war.
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Atomic bombings and their implications.

Results of WWII

• Social, Political, Economic: Changes in the global landscape.
• Nuremberg Trials: Trials of war criminals and their significance.