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OGT Scavenger HuntPart II

Mr. Westfall’sWorld Studies

1. In what ways did the Treaty of Versailles establish conditions that

led to the outbreak of World War II?

• Germany – Accept war guilt, pay war reparations, give up colonies and disarm

• Led to the rise of dictators such as Hitler

2. What was the Bolshevik revolution?

• A Marxist Communist Revolution in Russia to overthrow the Autocratic Czar

• Led by VI Lenin• Великая Октябрьская социалистическая революция

3. Explain the reasons for the division of Palestine by the U.N. resolution in

1947.• Palestine was divided for

a Jewish homeland after WWII

• Was a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict

4. What were the names of the two opposing Chinese leaders in the

Chinese Communist Revolution?Mao Zedong

• Leader of the Communist forces

Chiang Kia-Shek• Leader of the

Nationalist forces

5. The United States, Canada and western European allies formed the North

Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 to aid any member nation at a time of war. What was the communist answer to this

treaty and who was involved?

• Warsaw Pact – Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, Czech and Hungary

6. Name three of the six new technologies and practices of warfare used in World War I.

• Trench warfare, gas, machine gun, tanks, airplane, long range artillery

7. What impact did the Russian Revolution have on World War I?

• Weakened the Allies due to the Russian withdraw

• Two front to a One Front war

8. What country was carved up after World War I into the countries of

Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia?

Austria-Hungary

9. The death of Vladimir Lenin led to the rule of Joseph Stalin (Иосиф

Сталин) in the U.S.S.R., what were some of the tactics used by Stalin to maintain his control over the Soviet

Union?• Famine,

purges and secret police

10. Define and explain the global impact of disarmament, worldwide depression, and the rise of totalitarian states after

World War I.

WWII

11. Which presidents were in office during World War I and World War

II?WWI

Woodrow WilsonWWII

FDR & Truman

12. What was the relationship between the Vietnam War and the Cold War?

Containment

13. What event finally pushed the allies to declare war on Hitler and the Nazi’s, to

prevent their conquest of Europe?

• Invasion of Poland

• Violated Appeasement

14. Other than the use of atomic weapons, name and explain two of

the other five consequences of World War II.

• Cold War• United Nations• Marshall Plan• Partition of Israel

15. Give an example of the conflict between security and democracy

that the U.S. faced after 1945.

• Red Scare• Counter-Culture

16. At the end of World War II the Soviet Union liberated the countries

of Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany. How did the occupation

of these countries contribute the development of the Cold War?

• Iron Curtain fed into the fear of the spread of communism

17. Other than militarism name two of the other three causes of World War I.

• M ilitarism• A lliances• I mperialism• N ationalism

18. Explain the importance of the Marshall Plan with relation to the

Cold War.• Provided aide

to war torn European nations to prevent the spread of communism

19. Define détente and describe the treaty that resulted from this policy.

• Improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union

• SALT – Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

20. What was Neville Chamberlain’s policy toward Hitler and his desire

for the expansion of Germany?• British Prime Minister believed the policy of

Appeasement.– is a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an

aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles

“My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time.” Neville Chamberlain, 1938

21. What factors led to the rise of dictatorships in former colonies?

• Former military occupation was what they were used to.

22. What were the major reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union?

Glasnost• = openness• Churches opened• Political prisoners

released• Banned authors

allowed to publish books

• Ok for reporters to criticize officials

Perestroika• = economic• Managers of

farms and factories could make more decisions on their own

• People could open small private businesses

• Tried to preserve communism

Democratization• Gradual opening

of the political system

• Election of a new group of lawmakers

• Communist Party no longer chose all candidates

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

23. What incident in Cuba was embarrassing to the U.S. and resulted in the Soviets placing

missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida?

Bay of Pigs

24. Name two ethnic conflicts in the Post-Cold War era?

• Rwanda• Bosnia• Iraq

25. Identify two causes of the Great Depression.

• Bank failure• Easy credit• Buying stocks on margin• Stock market crash