1. Unit VI: Crisis and Achievement (1900 - 1945) Unit VII: The 20th Century since 1945

2. Causes of WWI

3. 14 Points – US effort to end WWI

5. Turkey National Leader– Kemal Ataturk – Secular Reform and Modernization

6. Czar Nicholas II – Incompetent Handling of WWI -Abdicated - Executed

7. Lenin – Leader of the Bolshevik/Russian Revolution – Promised Land Bread and Peace

8. Lenin - New Economic Policy

9. Stalin – Five Year Plan

10. Ukraine Famine – Collectivization

11. Hitler Defeated by Russian Winter

12. Germany - Weimar Republic

13. Great Depression, Inflation, Economic Problems – Rise of Hitler

14. Holocaust/Kristallnacht

15. Allied Appeasement

16. Annexation of Czechoslovakia

17. Hitler – Invaded Poland – Started WWII – Blitzkrieg Lightening War

18. Russian Winter Defeated Hitler Germany

19. Hitler, Fascism, Mien Kampf

20. Mussolini – Italy - Fascism

21. Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

22. WWII – D-Day – Allied Brought the War back to Europe

23. Nuremberg Trials - Nazi Officers were charged for Crime Against Humanity

24. Decolonization – Post WWII

25. USSR - Satellites Countries / Warsaw Pact

26. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – Tension Increased in South Asia

27. Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika, Glasnost

28. Cold War

29. Marshall Plan

30. Iron Curtain

31. Vietnam War/Korean War

32. Before - Berlin Wall - After

33. Cuban Missile Crisis

34. NATO v. Warsaw Pact

35. Middle East – Zionism, Balfour Declaration – Jewish State

36. Iranian Revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini – Built an Islamic Fundamentalist State

37. Palestine – Israel Conflict – Two Peoples fighting over the Same Land

38. Iraq – Saddam Hussein – Murdering Kurds Minorities

39. Suez Canal – Strategic Importance