Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Soviet propaganda poster depicting Stalin leading Soviet forces during the Second World War.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Asia in Turmoil
'Piece by Piece': American cartoon on Japan's expansion in Asia
Asia in Turmoil
- Kuomintang (Nationalist Party)
- Sun Yixian
- Sun’s “Three Principles of the People”
- May Fourth Movement
- Why did many young Chinese intellectuals turn from Sun’s belief in democracy to Lenin’s brand of Soviet communism?
- Mao Zedong
- What was unique about Mao’s brand of communism?
- Jiang Jieshi
- Shanghai Massacre
- Chinese Civil War
- The Long March
- Japanese invasion of Manchuria
- Indian nationalist groups:
- Rowlatt Acts
- Amritsar Massacre
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Civil disobedience
- Boycotts
- Salt March
- 1935 Government of India Act
- Mustafa Kemal/Ataturk - how did he modernize Turkey?
- Reza Shah Pahlavi – how did he modernize Persia?
- Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud – how did he rule Saudi Arabia?
- Rising demand for Southwest Asian oil
Dada and Depression
The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Salvadore Dali
Dada and Depression
The Triumph of Fascism
Benito Mussolini of Italy and Adolf Hitler of Germany established far right-wing fascist dictatorships after the First World War.
The Triumph of Fascism
- Fascism
- Differences between fascism and communism
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Nazism
- Mein Kampf
- Lebensraum
- SS
- Kristallnacht
- How did military leaders gain control of Japan?
- How did military leaders propose to solve Japan’s economic problems?
- How did the League of Nations respond to Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria?
- 1937 Japanese invasion of China
- 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia
- German reoccupation of the Rhineland
- Appeasement
- Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Spanish Civil War
- American isolationism
- Third Reich
- Anschluss
- Sudentenland
- Munich Conference
- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
The Axis Advance
The Axis Advance
- Invasion of Poland
- Blitzkrieg
- Maginot Line
- Dunkirk
- Charles de Gaulle
- Winston Churchill
- Battle of Britain
- Erwin Rommel
- Operation Barbarossa
- 1935 US Neutrality Acts
- Lend-Lease Act
- Atlantic Charter
- What did the US do when Japan overran French Indochina?
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Pearl Harbor
- How did the Japanese treat conquered peoples?
- Bataan Death March
Total War
Total War
- Aryans
- Holocaust
- What did some Germans blame Jews for?
- Nuremburg Laws
- Ghettos
- “Final Solution”
- Genocide
- Besides Jews, who else did the Nazis eliminate?
- Extermination camps
- Auschwitz
- Doolittle’s Raid
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Midway
- Douglas MacArthur
- “Island-hopping”
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Battle of El Alamein
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Invasion of Sicily
- Total War
- Rationing
- Propaganda
- Japanese-American internment
- Operation Overlord – the invasion of Normandy/“D-Day”
- The Battle of the Bulge
- V-E Day
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Kamikazes
- Manhattan Project
- Harry Truman
- Atomic bomb
- Japanese surrender
Turning Points of World War II
Newspaper celebrating Japan's surrender and the end of the Second World War.
The Iron Curtain
Political cartoon depicting the expansion of Soviet influence over Eastern Europe.
The Iron Curtain
Domino Theory
Domino Theory
- Jiang Jieshi, Republic of China on Taiwan
- Mao Zedong, People’s Republic of China
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Cambodian Genocide
- First World
- Second World
- Third World
- Major strategies of the Cold War
- Nonaligned nations
- Fidel Castro
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
- Iranian Islamic Revolution
- Saddam Hussein
- Iran-Iraq War
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Mujhahideen
- Taliban
Perestroika
Perestroika
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Soviet-Chinese split
- Détente
- Richard Nixon’s visit to China
- Ronald Reagan
- SDI
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Politburo
- Glasnost
- Perestroika
- Democratization
- Nationalist movements
- Lithuanian January Events massacre
- Boris Yeltsin
- August Coup
- CIS
- Shock Therapy
- First and Second Chechen Wars
- Vladimir Putin