Download WORLD HISTORY CH. 14: WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH

WORLD HISTORY
CH. 14: WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1931-1945
STUDY GUIDE
Ch. 14.1: From
Appeasement to War
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Ch. 14.2: The Axis Advance
Why did Japan take over Manchuria (Northern China) in 1931? What was the Rape
of Nanjing (see pg. 409)?
Which North African country did Italy takeover in 1935?
What does appeasement mean? From the chart on pg. 465, what are the 7 reasons
why the West (Western Europe, U.S.) appeased Hitler?
What agreements were made in the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis?
How did the Nazis view the bombing of Guernica in 1937?
What did Hitler create in 1938?
At the Munich Conference of 1938, what was given to Hitler without a fight? What
assurance did Hitler make to Britain and France?
What were the secret agreements of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939?
What happened on September 1, 1939?
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Ch. 14.3: The Allies Turn the
Tide
What were the tactics of the German blitzkrieg?
What is the Maginot Line (see pg. 429)?
What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940? On what date did the French surrender?
What was Operation Sea Lion? When did it begin? Was it successful?
What happened in the Blitz starting in September 1940?
What was Operation Barbarossa in June 1941?
What happened in the siege of Leningrad?
Who did the Nazis target as “racially inferior” and send to concentration and death
camps?
9. What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
10. What did the U.S. ban in 1940 after Japan invaded Indochina and the East Indies?
What did the Japanese do on December 7, 1941?
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Ch. 14.4: Victory in Europe
and the Pacific
What is Total War? What did it help put an end to?
Why were Japanese-Americans interned (held) in camps during WWII?
What jobs did women perform during WWII?
How was Japan affected after the Battle of Midway of June 1942?
Who were the “Big Three”?
What did the Allied invasion of Italy do to Hitler in July 1943?
What happened after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943?
What was D-Day (June 6, 1944)? What happened within a month of the invasion?
What was the goal of around the clock bombing by the Allies against Germany?
At the Yalta Conference of 1945, what would happen to Germany after its defeat?
What did Stalin agree to?
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How did Hitler die?
What does VE Day stand for and when is the official end of the war?
What was the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific?
What was the result of the Manhattan Project?
What happened on August 6, August 9, and September 2, 1945?
See pg. 488-489: What were the Nuremburg Trials?