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

Explore the causes of WWI, rise of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini, WWII events including D-Day and Holocaust, and post-WWII developments such as decolonization, Cold War tensions, and conflicts in the Middle East. Learn about key figures like Lenin, Stalin, Kemal Ataturk, and Gorbachev and their impact on world history.

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

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  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

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

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

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

  7. Lenin - New Economic Policy

  8. Stalin – Five Year Plan

  9. Ukraine Famine – Collectivization

  10. Hitler Defeated by Russian Winter

  11. Germany - Weimar Republic

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

  13. Holocaust/Kristallnacht

  14. Allied Appeasement

  15. Annexation of Czechoslovakia

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

  17. Russian Winter Defeated Hitler Germany

  18. Hitler, Fascism, Mien Kampf

  19. Mussolini – Italy - Fascism

  20. Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

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

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

  23. Decolonization – Post WWII

  24. USSR - Satellites Countries / Warsaw Pact

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

  26. Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika, Glasnost

  27. Cold War

  28. Marshall Plan

  29. Iron Curtain

  30. Vietnam War/Korean War

  31. Before - Berlin Wall - After

  32. Cuban Missile Crisis

  33. NATO v. Warsaw Pact

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

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

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

  37. Iraq – Saddam Hussein – Murdering Kurds Minorities

  38. Suez Canal – Strategic Importance

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