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Acc World 2011-2012
Mr.Burrell
World War II
Objectives:
1. Understand the causes of World War II
2. Understand the role of appeasement and nonintervention in European affairs
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss major
turning points of the war, principal theaters of conflict and key strategic
decisions
4. Describe the various political, diplomatic and military leaders during the war
5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity and how it transformed into
the Final Solution
6. Discuss the human costs of the war including civilian losses
Calendar:
Wed 3/7
HO Ch 29 HW Pckt
Unit XI Exam (Last magic score for the year)
Study Hall – DBQ Makeups / DBQ Help
Thu 3/8
Discuss Causes & Effects of WWII
Discuss New Technologies of WWII
HW: Read Kagan 938-942 stop at “Remilitarization of the Rhineland”
Bring Colored pens or pencils for Friday
[AP Lunch Review – Chapter 8 – The Enlightenment]
Fri 3/9
G.O. of Alliances & Steps to WWII
HW: Read Kagan 942-948
Mon 3/12
No School – Staff Development Day
HW: Bring Schedule Form & AP/Honors Contract
Tue 3/13
CAHSEE Testing – S-Period Schedule (No class) – Testing is from 1-5 period
Check office/Burrell for what room you test in
Schedule Classes for your Junior Year 
HW: Read Kagan 948-950 stop at “The German Attack on Russia”
[No AP Lunch Review Today]
Wed 3/14
CAHSEE Testing – S-Period Schedule (No class) – Testing is from 1-5 period
Check office/Burrell for what room you test in
Schedule Classes for your Junior Year 
HW: Read Kagan 950-956 stop at “The Defeat of Nazi Germany”
No Study Hall due to Testing
Thu 3/15
Discuss Theaters of Combat – Key figures in the war
HW: Read Kagan 956-960
[AP Lunch Review – Chapter 9 – The French Revolution]
Fri 3/16
DBQ – Peer edit and review
HW: Read Kagan 960-966
Mon 3/19
Major Turning Points of WWII – A Photo Journey through D-Day
HW: Read Kagan 966-972
Tue 3/20
Treaties of WWII & The Aftermath
HW: Read Kagan 972-974
[AP Lunch Review – Chapter 10 – The Nineteenth Century I]
Wed 3/21
A Potpourri of WWII items
HW: Finish Ch 29 HW Pckt
Study for exam
Study Hall
Thu 3/22
Turn in Ch 29 HW Pckt
World War II Quiz
[AP Lunch Review – Chapter 11 – The Nineteenth Century II]
Unit XII: Vocabulary
Chapter 29 – World War II
Mein Kempf, Volk, Lebensraum, the rearmament of Germany, Lytton report, Stresa Font,
Ethiopia 1935, failure of the League of Nations, Rome-Berlin Axis, remilitarization of the
Rhineland, appeasement, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Popular Front, Falangists, General
Francisco Franco, Anti-Comintern Pact, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, plebiscite, Anschluss,
Konrad Henlein, Neville Chamberlain, Nuremburg rallies, Munich Conference 38’, Nazi-Soviet
non-agression pact, invasion of Poland
Blitzkrieg, Maginot Line, Sitzkrieg, miracle of Dunkirk, Henri Philippe Petain, Winston
Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force (RAF), London bombing, invasion of
Russia, Operation Barbarossa, North African campaign, General Erwin Rommel, Third Reich,
untermenschen, Heinrich Himmler, Judenrein, General Hideki Tojo, Pearl Habor, El Alamein,
Coral Sea, Midway, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal Pietro
Badoglio, Battle of Stalingrad, Volga, “area bombing”, “precision bombing”, June 6, 1944, “DDay”, Battle of the Bulge. “island hopping”, Aug. 6,1945, Aug. 9,1945, Emperor Hirohito,
President Harry S. Truman, USS Missouri, cost of the war
Need to do vocab for! (We used to leave this out until after AP exam)
Albert Speer, woman’s role in Germany, Josef Goebbels, General Charles de Gaulle,
Vichy France, French National Committee of Liberation, Fourth Republic, Lord Beaverbrook,
British Broadcasting Company, Soviet losses in the war, Soviet propaganda, Tolstoy’s War and
Peace
Atlantic Chater 1941, Tehran 1943, Yalta 1945, Potsdam 1945, President Truman,
Clement Attlee
Unit XII: Guided Questions
The Road to War
1. Why could it be said that World War II actually began with the Japanese invasion of
Manchuria in 1931?
2. How did the countries of Eastern Europe try to counterbalance the threat of Germany’s
rapid rearmament?
3. Why did Italy invade Ethiopia in 1935? What was the response of the League of Nations?
of the major European powers?
4. What was the response of the international community to the German invasion of the
Rhineland in 1936?
5. What were the causes of the Spanish Civil War? Identify the different sides in the
conflict.
6. How did Britain and France and the other Western democracies respond to the Spanish
Civil War?
7. Why did Franco and his Nationalist forces ultimately win?
8. What were the political, economic, and military effects for Spain and the rest of Europe
of the Spanish Civil War?
9. How did Austria become part of the Third Reich?
10. What was the ‘the Sudetenland problem’? How was it resolved?
11. Why didn’t France live up to its alliance obligations to Czechoslovakia?
12. Why did Hitler make a diplomatic / military pact with Hitler in 1939? What were the
terms of that agreement?
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13. What was the blitzkrieg form of attack? Why was it so successful?
14. Why could World War II have ended quickly on the beaches of Dunkirk?
15. Why did France fall to the Germans so quickly? How did the Germans divide and govern
France?
16. What military mistake did Hitler make in regard to England?
17. Why did the Germans invade the Soviet Union, even though they had a non-aggression
pact with Stalin?
18. How did Stalin’s appeal to Russian patriotism contradict traditional Marxist views?
19. Why did the United States enter World War II at the end of 1941? Why could it be said
that the United States was really a combatant nation early in 1941?
20. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad [Volgograd] a turning point in the war on the Eastern
front?
21. How did the Allied forces regain control of the Mediterranean in 1942?
22. Why were the Battles for the Coral Sea and Midway Island crucial to the Allied victory
over Japan in the Pacific theater of operations?
The Domestic Fronts
23. What were some of the problems / inconveniences that the British and Americans on the
home front had to cope with during the war?
24. What were the similarities in how the Allied governments coped with the war at home
during World War I and the World War II?
25. How was German slave labor, particularly in Eastern Europe and the occupied areas of
the Soviet Union, a justification of Nazi racial theories?
26. How was the Nazi concentration system the ultimate nightmare of Western
industrialization?
27. What were some of the methods used by the conquered peoples of Europe to “resist”
Nazi occupation? Identify some of the examples of Nazi retribution for this resistance.
Preparations for Peace
28. What war strategies were decided at the Casablanca and Teheran Conferences?
29. What happened to Mussolini once Italy surrendered to the Allies?
30. Why was the Normandy invasion so crucial to the final Allied victory in Europe?
31. How did the Allies almost lose the war at the end of 1944?
32. What were the decisions made by the Big Three at the Yalta Conference? Why were they
so controversial?
33. What were Stalin’s long-term plans for the countries they already occupied?
34. Why did it take four more months to defeat Japan after Germany surrendered in early
May of 1945?
35. What were the immediate results of World War II? the demographic losses and shifts of
population?
36. What were the terms of peace arrived at Potsdam in mid-1945?
37. Why were the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials necessary? What basic international legal
principal of conduct was established there?
38. How was the new United Nations organized? Who had the most power in this new
international organization? Why?