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The Earth and Its Peoples Chapter Twenty-Nine Reading Guide

I. Vocabulary: Be sure to include the significance of these terms and include dates where applicable.

Appeasement Battle of Midway

Benito Mussolini El Alamein

Fascist Party Five-Year Plans

Hiroshima Holocaust

Joseph Stalin Long March

Mao Zedong Nazi Party

Pearl Harbor Stalingrad II. Answer: 1. How did the Depression suffered by the industrialized world affect the colonial world?

2. How did the Japanese respond to the Western actions following the Manchurian Incident? Why?

3. Outline Joseph Stalin’s plans for the USSR. What were his goals and methods? What were his successes and failures?

4. How did major participants in the war contribute on the home front? How was society changed by the war?

5. After reading “Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution (pp. 836-837) in your text, answer the following questions:

a. How did Soviet society make it possible for women to be both workers and mothers without depending on a man? b. How does Stalin’s image of the Soviet family differ from Kollontai’s? Are his views a variation of her views, or the opposite? Explain.

III. Chart: Fill in the blank areas of each chart with the relevant information. Not all blanks will necessarily be used.

TWO DIFFERENT WARS World War I World War II

Dates/Nations involved (sides)

Technology (military and/or non-military)

Style of warfare and casualties

Legacies (enduring consequences of the wars)

ON THE BACK PLEASE!!

Thesis: Write a thesis statement for ONE of the following questions.

1. Compare and contrast the impact of the Great Depression on two of the following countries/regions: Soviet Union, Europe, South Asia, and East Asia.

2. Analyze the changes and continuities in women’s roles from 1914-present in TWO of the following areas: China, Russia (USSR), the United States and Japan.

3. Analyze the political and social changes and continuities in China from 1914-present.