World History: Wars of the World

Wars of the WorldWWI, Russian Revolution, Great Depression, and WWII

Causes of WWI: The “Isms”

Causes of WWI: The Alliances

Below: Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife

just before his assassination

Major Events of WWI

Above: WWI machine gunTop Left: Men preparing for battle in the trenchesLeft: Diagram of typical trench warfare

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Q1. What four “isms” caused WWI? What is the trigger that set

these “isms” off?

Russian Revolution: Imperial Russia

Right: Tsar Nicolas II and his family

Below: Russian Troops during World War I

Russian Revolution: Reforms of Communism

Images of the Russian RevolutionRight Top: Lenin inspiring a crowd to

communism

Right Bottom: Members of the Red Guard

Above: The Soviets in Action by John Reed (1918)

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Q2. What were the three types of reforms that communism

brought to Russia after the Revolution?

WWI Comes to an End: Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of Versailles signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on June 28, 1919

Germany had agree to: War GuiltReparationsDisarmamentTerritorial reduction

US President Wilson insisted upon a League of Nations

Great Depression BeginsCauses and Consequences

Hirohito Stalin Mussolini Hitler

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Q3. Name one immediate and one long term consequence of

the Great Depression

WWII Begins: Allies Align

1936: Rhineland

1938: Austria

1938: Sudetenland

1939: Poland

1940: Denmark

1940: Netherlands

1940: Belgium

1940: France

Across the Atlantic

BATTLE FOR BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET UNION

AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR

December 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy

Across the Atlantic

THE WAR COMES TO AN END IN EUROPE THE HOLOCAUST

Above Left: IKE talking to

the troops

Above Right: Invasion at Normandy

Right: V-E Day

Above Left: Prisoners of Buchenwald Camp

Above Right: Child survivors

Left: a mass grave at a concentration camp

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Q4. Name the leaders of the Allied Power countries and Axis Power

countries.

Battle Across the Pacific: Japanese Internment

FDR ordered the internment of Japanese Americans

110,000 Japanese Americans forced from their homes

Across the Pacific: Allies Fight Back

Above: MacArthur leading the troops across

the Pacific

Right: Douglas MacArthur

Far Right: Victory at Iwo Jima

Battle Across the Pacific: The Atomic Decision

Below: Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan

Right: Nagasaki after the bomb

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Q5. Use a short descriptor to tell what the following people are remembered for: Hideki Tojo,

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur

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