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Unit VIII Reading Assignment
Years of Crisis and World War II
World History 102
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Explain how new scientific theories challenged old beliefs.
Describe how the brutality of war prompted philosophers and writers to explore new ideas.
Summarize new styles in art, architecture, and music.
Identify the changing role of women.
Trace new technological advances.
Describe the impact of World War I on postwar Europe.
Identify the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.
Trace the events that led to the financial collapse of the U.S. economy.
Analyze the worldwide effects of the Great Depression.
Describe Mussolini’s creation of a Fascist state in Italy.
Discuss the rise of Hitler, the Nazis, and extension of Hitler’s power.
Trace the shift from democratic governments to dictatorships in Eastern Europe.
Describe Japan’s attempts to build an empire.
Trace the moves of European Fascists in seeking world power.
Summarize why British and French appeasement and American isolation failed to stop
Fascist aggression.
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Summarize the events that led to war.
Describe the fall of France and the Battle of Britain.
Explain the conflicts in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Front.
Describe U.S. aid to the Allies.
Explain how Japanese expansionism led to war with the Allies in Asia.
Describe Japan’s early battle successes.
Explain how the Allies were able to stop Japanese expansion.
Summarize Allied battle strategy.
Trace the course of the persecution of Jews by the Nazis.
Describe the results of the “Final Solution.”
Describe the Allied strategy in Europe.
List efforts made on the home front.
Summarize events that led to the surrender of Germany and Japan.
Describe conditions in Europe in 1945.
Identify the political consequences of the Allied victory in postwar Europe.
Summarize how defeat and occupation affected political and civic life in Japan.
Describe Japan’s postwar constitution.