NHS Honors USWA

Unit III
EUROPE – WILSON (28) TO FDR (32)
GEOGRAPHY
Physical: English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Bosporus & Daredenelles, Black Sea,
Thames River, Seine River, Rhine River, Danube River, Volga River, Alps, Urals, Pyrenees, Iberian
Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula, Scandinavian Peninsula,
Political
WWI WWII Cold War Present
UK UK UK UK
France France France France
Spain Spain Spain Spain
Portugal Portugal Portugal Portugal
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland
Belgium Belgium Belgium Belgium
Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands
Denmark Denmark Denmark Denmark
Greece Greece Greece Greece
German Empire Germany West Germany East Germany Germany
Austria Austria Austria
Austria-Hungarian Hungary Hungary Hungary
Empire Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Serbia Serbia
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Bosnia-Herzegovina
N/A
Croatia
Romania Romania Romania Romania
Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria
Russia
Ukraine
Belarus
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Russia Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland Poland Poland
Norway Norway Norway Norway
Sweden Sweden Sweden Sweden
N/A Finland Finland Finland

PRESIDENTS
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28 WOODROW WILSON
1913-1919 - WWI
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29 WARREN HARDING
1919-1923 – Roaring 20s
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30 CALVIN COOLIDGE
 1923-1929 – Roaring 20s
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31 HERBERT HOOVER
1929-1933 – Stock Market Crash
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30 FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
1933-1945 – Great Depression, WWII

EVENTS
World War I – 1914 (1917)-1918
The Great War, 14 Point peace plan, League of Nations
World War II – 1939 (1941)-1945
Yalta Conference, United Nations
Cold War – 1946-1991
(See events below under GLOBAL & EUROPE) Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, Long Telegram, Truman
Doctrine, containment, MAD, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Berlin Wall, détente, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin,
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika
Modern – 1991-present
European Union
COLD WAR EVENTS
Decade GLOBAL EUROPE ASIA No/So AMERICA AFRICA
1950s Berlin Airlift Korean War Cuban Revolution
Guatemalan coup
1960s Prague Spring Vietnam War Cuban Missile Crisis Congo Crisis
1970s SALT treaties, Angolan Civil War
détente

1980s Reunification of Tiananmen Square Operation Urgent Namibian War of

Germany Fury, Salvadoran Independence
Civil War
1990s START treaty Soviet Union Soviet invasion of
collapses Afghanistan
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Why did the U.S. enter WWI? What started the Cold War?
How did Europe (& the world) change after WWII? What ended the Cold War?
Why were the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. allies during WWII? What is the EU?