Unit Seven Review Sheet

Unit Seven Review Sheet World History 10 Dr. Korfhage I. Intellectual Developments—Be sure you know which ones preceded and which ones followed WWI

A. Philosophy: Nietzsche, Existentialism, Logical Positivism

B. Religion: Kierkegaard, Barth

C. Science: the “New Physics”— the decline of Newtonian physics, Planck and Quantum Theory, Einstein and Relativity, Quantum Mechanics

D. Psychology: Freud

E. Literature: Modernism

F. Architecture: Modernism, Functionalism, the Bauhaus

G. Art: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism

H. Music: Schönberg and atonal music

II. World War I

A. Underlying Causes

B. The crisis that brought on the war: what was it, how did it lead to war, and what lessons can we learn from it?

C. The War—Military Aspects. Allies vs. Central Powers; the various fronts

D. The Home Front: “Total War” and social changes

E. The War’s End

1. Political upheaval in Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire (and of course Russia)

2. The Paris Peace Conference: Wilson and the Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles

III. The Russian Revolution

A. The sequence of events: be able to compare and contrast with other revolutions we’ve studied. Key players: Kerensky, Lenin, Trostsky B. Why the Bolsheviks were able to take power

C. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

D. Why the Bolsheviks were able to win the civil war and keep power