Additional Background and Key Concepts

Students will enrich and clarify their understanding of the following concepts as a result of their studies in this unit:

1. Fascism
2. Nazism
3. Communism
4. Democracy, democracies (U.S. and parliamentary systems)
5. Totalitarian dictatorships as compared to other forms of dictatorship or other authoritarian systems
6. Competing economic systems: market economies, command economies, and mixed economies
7. Concepts of people important in those times: Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, to name a few
8. World War II, total war
9. Axis Powers and their conquests
10. Big Three Allies
11. Tehran Conference
12. Yalta Conference
13. Defeat of leading Axis powers
14. United Nations
15. United Nations Security Council
16. Iron Curtain
17. Marshall Plan
18. Truman Doctrine
19. Pro-Soviet regimes, satellites to the Soviet Union
20. German Federal Republic
21. German Democratic Republic
22. Berlin Airlift
23. Mao Zedong
24. Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance
25. Korean War