1. Exploration & Colonization
1. What are the 3 reasons for exploration? Examples of each?
2. What is colonialism? Where did it occur? How did it help Europe?
World War I
3. What are the “M.A.I.N.” Causes of World War I?
4. Who was on each side (at least “2 vs 2”)?
World War II
5. What was the original goal of Nazism?
6. 2 Examples (each) of how Hitler:
*Manipulated the German people
*Caused World War II
*made the Jews in Germany legally & socially unsafe
7. How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause World War II? ;)
8. What brought the US into the war?
9. Who was on each side? (at least “2 vs 2”)
The Cold War (and Russian History)
10. What kind of government did Russia have before World War I? After the war?
11. Why did it change? What was Russia’s new name?
12. List 2 notable events in the rule of:
*Czar Nicholas II
*Vladimir Lenin
*Joseph Stalin
*Mikhail Gorbachev
13. What was the “Cold War”? Trace the start, height, and end of the Cold War for:
*the USSR
*the USA
*Germany
14. Complete the chart:
What IS it? Countries involved? Did it work?
Argument & Evidence
Marshall Plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact

2. GOD GOLD GLORY Exploration Nationalism? Strong pride in one’s nation
Imperialism?
One country taking control of another country’s government & economy
Alliances? – a formal agreement among nations to unite for a common
Cause.
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Why Did they explore?
Imperialism, spread Christianity, find new trade routes, natural resources & new markets
What did they (the colonies) give to the nations?
Raw goods/natural resources

3. WWI Russia Had to return home b/c Of the Russian Revolution (1917)
Main causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliance
Imperialism
Nationalism
Also, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Results of WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Russia becomes communist
Germany remains mad
Russia
Had to return home b/c
Of the Russian Revolution (1917)
Czar Nicholas II was ignoring his people
They were hungry, cold, wanting
Change
The czar and his family were executed
And Vladimir Lenin came to power
Russia changes name to the Soviet Union
The new gov. is communist
Allied Powers
U.K.
U.S.
France
Russia
Central Powers
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

4. WWII Allies U.K. U.S. France Russia Axis Germany Italy Japan Causes
Treaty of Versailles punishes Germany
Hitler/Germany invades Poland
Economic problems around the world/Great Depression
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and U.S. joins the war
Results
Holocaust – The killing of millions of Jews, disabled people, and others by the Nazis
Europe Divides in half (West is Democratic vs. East is Communist)
The Cold War
Superpowers begin building up weapons (nuclear, space weapons, etc)
Europe has to rebuild
Berlin/Germany is divided (half democratic and half communist)
Marshall Plan – U.S. offers and helps rebuild democratic, western Europe
Allies
U.K.
U.S.
France
Russia
Axis
Germany
Italy
Japan

5. N.A.T.O. nations (Democratic) VS. USA UK France West Germany Italy
Etc.
Warsaw Pact nations (Communist)
East Europe
Soviet Union (Russia)
Important Communist Leaders
Vladimir Lenin – First leader, came
After Czar Nicholas II was executed
Joseph Stalin – Important b/c
He wanted to spread communism
Mikhail Gorbachev – He wanted
Change and open discussion with
U.S. (Ronald Reagan). He helped
Bring about the end of the Cold War
facts about the Cold War:
~Tensions between the Soviet Union and US began to form
~Iron Curtain = invisible wall between democratic West Europe & Communist East Europe
~Ideologies clashed = US (Democracy) VS. USSR (Communist)
~Neither country actually fought/no bullets fired
~ lasted 45 years
~ Fall of the Berlin Wall = 1989, in Berlin, Germany.
freedom & the end of the Cold War