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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 CA State Standards 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 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.