What are these, and why are these things significant?

1.The League of Nations (and notable absences and withdrawals)
2.Germany’s problems after World War I
3.the Weimar Republic
4.the Dawes Plan
5.the Treaty of Locarno
6.The Roaring ‘20s
7.the Scopes Trial
8.Prohibition
9.the Great Depression
10.Franklin Roosevelt
11.science and technology between 1920 and 1945
12.Charles Lindbergh
13.the Harlem Renaissance
14.modernism in art and literature
15.Self-determination
16.Gandhi, the Indian National Congress, and Indian Nationalism
17.ahisma
18.the Salt March
19.Jomo Kenyatta
20.W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey
21.the Ku Klux Klan
22.Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army, and Irish independence
23.Ho Chi Minh
24.the Wu-Chang uprising, Sun Yat-Sen, Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Kuomintang (KMT; also Guomindang)
25.Mao Tse-Tung and the Long March
26.Fascism
27.Benito Mussolini, the Blackshirts, the March on Rome
28.King Zog and Albania
29.the Invasion of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, and the Abyssinian Crisis
30.Francisco Franco, the Fifth Column, the International Brigades, and the Spanish Civil War
31.Fascism and authoritarianism in Romania (the Iron Guard), Hungary (Horthy Miklos), Portugal (Antonio Salazar), Austria (the Fatherland Front), Yugoslavia (King Alexander I), Greece (King George II), Poland (Jozef Pilsudski), Bulgaria (the White Terror), Japan (Tojo Hideki)
32.Democratic governments in Central and Eastern Europe
33.Adolph Hitler
34.the NSDAP (Nazi Party), the Brownshirts, and the SS
35.the Beer Hall Putsch
36.Mein Kampf
37.Paul von Hindenberg
38.Hitler Youth, League of German Maidens, Mother’s Cross, and Strength through Joy, and the Volkswagen
39.The Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act
40.the Night of the Long Knives
41.untermenschen and undesirable people
42.the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht
43.Lebensborn and Lebensraum
44.the Anschluss
45.appeasement and the Munich Agreements
46.the Sudetenland
47.Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
48.blitzkrieg
49.the Nazi-Soviet Pact
50.the invasion of Poland and the Baltic republics
51.the invasion of Denmark and Norway
52.the Maginot Line and the Phony War
53.the invasion of the Low Countries and France
54.Vichy France
55.the Miracle at Dunkirk and the Blitz
56.the Winter War
57.Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
58.Italy’s invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece
59.Japan’s empire in 1930
60.bushido and kamikaze
61.the Mukden Incident and Manchuria/Manchukuo
62.the Marco Polo Bridge Incident
63.the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)
64.Hirohito (the Showa Emperor), the Japanese Diet, and  Tojo Hideki
65.the Tripartite Pact
66.Thailand during World War II
67.the America First Committee
68.Pearl Harbor
69.the Philippines and the Bataan Death March
70.Japanese invasions of Hong Kong, Singapore, Indo-China, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies
71.Japanese internment camps
72.Codebreakers and codetalkers
73.the Battle of the Java Sea
74.the Battle of the Coral Sea
75.the Battle of Midway
76.Operation Torch
77.Ewin Rommel, Bernard Montgomery, George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz
78.The invasion of Italy (‘the underbelly of Europe’)
79.Leningrad and Stalingrad
80.Operation Valkyrie
81.Strategic Bombing
82.the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences
83.D-Day, the Liberation of Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge
84.the conquest of Germany
85.the battles of Guadalcanal (Ironbottom Sound), Saipan, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
86.the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
87.the Nuremberg Trials and Japanese war crimes
88.Post-war European and Asian borders and governments
89.the United Nations


*Be prepared to identify important Asian countries and regions of the early 1930s and 1940s world on a map.

*Describe the rise of fascism.

*Describe the causes of World War II.

*Describe Hitler’s rise to power.

*Describe Japanese expansion from the 1890s to 1942.

*Explain why the United States used atomic bombs on Japan.