AP World Unit 7: Global Conflict

Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, sits in a high mountain basin on the central plateau, ringed by the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west and Sierra Madre Oriental to the east — exactly the…

This is Wuhan, China, sitting on the Yangtze River roughly in the geographic center of the country, midway between the Tibetan Plateau to the west and the Pacific coast to the east. In 1911–1912, an…

Between 1912 and 1913, the Balkan nations of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro fought two back-to-back wars that dramatically redrew the map of southeastern Europe. In the First Balkan War…

This is Sarajevo, the capital of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina — a city nestled in a mountain-ringed valley along the Miljacka River, deep in the Balkan Peninsula where Central Europe grades into the…

The attack happened about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, on Ireland's southern Atlantic coast — the exposed headlands where the island's shoreline faces directly into the open ocean…

The Battle of the Somme took place near Albert, in the Somme river valley of northern France — that flat, open farmland sitting between Paris to the south and the English Channel to the north that…

This was Verdun, a fortified city on the Meuse River in northeastern France — sitting in the rolling hills of the Western European interior, roughly midway between the Rhine to the east and the…

This is Petrograd — now called Saint Petersburg — in Russia, sitting at the eastern tip of the Baltic Sea where the Neva River meets the Gulf of Finland, exactly where Europe's great northern plain…

This event unfolded in Pskov, a city in western Russia — deep in the vast European plain, east of the Baltic Sea and well west of the Ural Mountains that mark Europe's boundary with Asia. In March…

Saint-Mihiel is a small town in the Meuse River valley of Lorraine, northeastern France — a temperate corridor of hills and rivers running roughly parallel to the Rhine, far east of Paris. From 12 to…

The location is the Forest of Compiègne, about 80 kilometres northeast of Paris in northern France — sitting in the broad, low basin drained by the Oise River, a tributary of the Seine, well inland…

On 28 June 1919 — exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — Germany and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, wedged between the Atlantic coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, roughly midway up the…

Paris, France — sitting on a wide bend of the Seine River in the heart of Western Europe, exactly where the flat North European Plain rolls toward the Atlantic coast — was where Allied leaders…

This event unfolded in Ankara, the inland capital of modern Turkey — set on the Anatolian plateau, with the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean to the south, and the Bosphorus strait linking…

London, the island capital of the United Kingdom, sits on the River Thames just inland from where the English Channel separates Great Britain from continental Europe — making it the natural hub for…

Locarno, Switzerland, 1925 — a small resort town cradled on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore, where the Alps slope southward into Italy. Here, representatives of Germany, France, Britain, Belgium…

Moscow, the capital of Russia (then the heart of the Soviet Union), sits on the Moskva River in the broad East European Plain, west of the Ural Mountains that divide Europe from Asia — the geographic…

This event unfolded in New York City, USA — a vast metropolis on the northeastern Atlantic seaboard, built where the Hudson River meets one of the world's great natural harbours. In October 1929, the…

This event unfolded in Mukden — today called Shenyang — in China's northeastern region of Manchuria, exactly where the broad, flat plains stretching toward the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far…

On 23 March 1933, the German parliament passed the Enabling Act, transferring full legislative power to Chancellor Adolf Hitler's cabinet. Hitler could now pass any law without parliamentary…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, on the Potomac River just east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the Atlantic coastal plain the…

This event unfolded in Berlin, the capital of Germany — a city planted firmly on the flat North European Plain, roughly halfway between the Rhine River to the west and the Oder River marking the…

Munich, Germany — a city on the Bavarian plain tucked between the Alps to the south and the Danube River to the north — was the center of a deadly political purge in late June and early July 1934…

The uprising that ignited the Spanish Civil War began in 1936 in Melilla, a Spanish enclave perched on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa — separated from mainland Spain only by the narrow…

Guernica, in the Basque region of northern Spain, sits close to where the Pyrenees taper toward the Bay of Biscay — exactly the rugged Atlantic corner of the Iberian Peninsula the title clue pointed…

This is Warsaw, the capital of Poland — a city sitting on the Vistula River, on the broad North European Plain that stretches from the Baltic coast south to the Carpathian Mountains. On September 1…

This is London, the capital of the United Kingdom — sitting on the River Thames in southeast England, on the island of Great Britain, separated from continental Europe by the narrow English Channel…

Oslo, Norway — a country of steep fjords carved by glaciers on the western edge of the Scandinavian Peninsula, separated from Britain only by the narrow North Sea. In April 1940, Nazi Germany…

Auschwitz, in southern Poland — a country on the northern edge of the Carpathian Mountains, at the heart of Europe's great northern plain — was the largest and most lethal site in a continent-wide…

Brest, in what is now Belarus, sits on the North European Plain at the Bug River — the flat corridor that has funneled armies between Central Europe and Russia for centuries. On June 22, 1941, Nazi…

Singapore, a small island city-state just off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942 — the largest surrender of British-led troops in…

The battle unfolded across the Coral Sea, the warm tropical waters separating northeastern Australia — near the port of Townsville, Queensland — from the island chains of Papua New Guinea and the…

This was Oran, Algeria — a port city on the Mediterranean's southern shore, tucked below the Atlas Mountains where they descend toward the sea, directly across from the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain…

Juno Beach lies along the Normandy coast of northern France, facing England across the English Channel — one of the narrowest crossings between the British Isles and continental Europe. On 6 June…

Saint Petersburg — known as Leningrad during the Soviet era — sits at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, where the Neva River empties into the Baltic Sea, placing it at the far northwestern…

This is the Normandy coast of France — a stretch of sandy beaches along the English Channel, directly south across a narrow strip of water from southern England, on the northwestern edge of the…

Tokyo, Japan's capital, sits on the Pacific coast of Honshu — the main island of Japan, an archipelago of curved islands stretching along the western rim of the Pacific Ocean. In 1945, the United…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two major cities on the Japanese archipelago, sit on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, facing the East China Sea and the Korean Peninsula across narrow straits — exactly…

This is Kigali, the capital of Rwanda — a densely hilled, landlocked country sitting on the high plateau between the Congo basin and the East African Rift Valley, almost exactly at the continent's…