MIDTERM REVIEW

Vocabulary

1. International Telegraph Union
   
2. International Olympic Committee
   
3. 14 Points
   
4. League of Nations
   
5. Paris Peace Conference
   
6. Treaty of Versailles
   
7. Russian-Polish War of 1920-1921
   
8. Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
   
9. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty
   
10. Dumbarton Oaks Conference of 1944
    
11. Yalta Conference of 1945
    
12. "Big Three" (people)
    
13. UN Charter (What is it?)
    
14. Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)
    
15. UN Security Council
    
16. Veto rights
    
17. Big Five (countries)
    
18. rotating ten (countries)
    
19. International Criminal Court
    
20. General Assembly
    
21. Secretary-General
    
22. World Bank
    
23. International Monetary Fund
    
24. World Health Organization
    
25. sanctions
    

    
     

• Remember to include the year that each event happens. If an event happened in 1945, please include the month.
  

People

1. Woodrow Wilson
   
2. Joseph Stalin (Big Three Soviet Union)
   
3. Adolph Hitler
   
4. Winston Churchill (Big Three – England)
   
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Big Three USA)
   
6. Benito Mussolini
   
7. Ho Chi Minh
   

Questions of the Semester

1. Why did the League of Nations fail? What was wrong with it (four things explain how each hurt it)?
   

Why do we have the United Nations (two reasons…explain each and give examples)? What happens at the UN? HINT: Why did people create the international Telegraph Union and International Olympic Committee? One was ___________. One was in order to make ___________.