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Use the timeline below to answer the following questions.
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
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Hitler takes
over the
Rhineland
FDR
re-elected
Munich
Conference/Pact
FDR
re-elected
Kristallnacht
Nazi-Soviet
Non-Aggression
1938 Pact signed
Germany invades
Poland
Bataan Death
March
Allied invasion
of Normandy
Battle of
Midway
Battle of the
Bulge
FDR re-elected
Lend-Lease
Act signed
Battle of
Stalingrad
Japan bombs
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Charter signed
Yalta Conference
FDR dies
Germany surrenders
Atomic bombs
dropped on Japan
Japan surrenders
1. How many times was Franklin Roosevelt elected as US president? 4
2. When were American and Filipino soldiers forced to walk 60 miles with
no food or water after they had surrendered to the Japanese? 1942
3. When did the Allies invade German-occupied France? 1944
4. Which event on the timeline means “night of broken glass”? Nazis
destroyed Jewish property and synagogues on this night.
Kristallnacht
5. List three battles fought between the Allies and the Germans.
Battle of Stalingrad, Normandy invasion, and Battle of the Bulge
6. List two events/battles that involved the Allies and the Japanese.
Attack of Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Battle of Midway, or
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
7. When did World War II officially begin in Europe? 1939
8. When did the US enter World War II? 1941
9. In which year did Stalin and Hitler form a brief alliance? 1939
10.
In which year did the US begin to loan other Allies weapons that
earned us the name “an arsenal for democracy”? 1941
11.
What event on the timeline pushed the US into entering World War
II? Attack of Pearl Harbor
12.
When was the “Manhattan Project” used in World War II? 1945
13.
Explain appeasement. Which event on the timeline BEST dealt
with appeasing Hitler?
When someone gives in to another’s demands in order to avoid a
conflict; Great Britain and France appeased Hitler by giving him the
Sudetenland; Munich Conference/Pact
14.
When was the Atlantic Charter signed? 1941
15.
When did Truman become president? 1945