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World War II Unit
Learning Guide
Please answer all questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.
“Aggression, Appeasement, and War”
Chapter 18, Section 1 (Pg. 468-472) Due Thurs. 2-27
1. For what purposes did the German military use the Spanish Civil
War?
2. What strategy did Hitler use to take control of Czechoslovakia?
3. How did Britain and France respond to the invasion of Poland?
4. Could Hitler have been stopped before Poland, and if so, how? (This
is a divergent question- support your answer with reasons.)
Terms to define:
Rhineland
Appeasement
Neutrality Acts
Francisco Franco
Guernica
Anschluss
Sudentenland
Munich Conference
Neville Chamberlain
Nazi-Soviet Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
“The Global Conflict: Blitzkrieg!” Chapter 18 Section 2 (Pg. 473-476) Due Thurs. 3-6
5. Which countries were invaded by Germany?
6. What was the miracle of Dunkirk?
7. What new technology appeared or was refined for use in WWII?
8. What was Hitler’s plan to defeat Britain?
9. What effect did the bombing of London have on the British citizenry?
10. How did Mussolini delay Hitler’s plans for 1941?
Terms to define:
Blitzkrieg
Phony war
Winston Churchill
Operation Sea Lion
The Blitz
“Russian Front”
Chapter 18 (Pg. 476)
Due Thurs. 3-6
(sections: Barbarossa, Occupied Lands, Red Army Resists
11. Why were Stalin’s purges a factor in early German victories on
the Russian Front?
Terms to define:
Operation Barbarossa
General Winter
Genocide
Stalingrad
Erwin Rommel
“Allied Successes” Chapter 18 Section 3 (Pg. 479-486)Due Thursday 3-13
(sections: Growing American Involvement, Allied War Effort, Turning Points, Invasion of France,
Nazis Defeated)
12. What role did women play in the war?
13. Why did the Allies invade Italy?
14. Describe D-Day.
15. What were the effects of the air war over Europe?
16. Where did US and Russian troops meet and who captured
Berlin?
17. What happened to Mussolini and to Hitler?
Terms to define
Invasion of Italy
Dwight Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge
Atlantic Charter
The Big Three
Total War
V-E Day
“War the Pacific selections”
Chapter 18 Section 4 (Pg. 485-493)
Japanese Invasion
(435) Japan Attacks (p 477-478), War in Pacific (p. 485-486), Defeat of Japan (486-488) From World
War to Cold War (489-493) Due Thurs. 3-20
18. What actions did the US take which
provoked war with Japan?
19. What countries had Japan invaded between
1931 and 1941?
20. Why was the attack on Pearl Harbor a
failure for Japan?
21. How was war in the Pacific different from
the war in Europe and what were the main
targets or objectives?
22. What effect did the battle for Okinawa have
on US military planning for future
operations?
23. What was the purpose of the founding of the
United Nations in 1945?
24. What were the origins of the Cold War? What was the “iron curtain”?
Terms to define:
Rape of Nanking
Battle of Midway
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Kamikaze
Hiroshima
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10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of
Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in
Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war,
the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political
resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur,
Dwight Eisenhower).
Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation
into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia,
Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.