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COURSE OUTLINE
Periodization 1:
Foundations (5,000 BCE-600
CE)
 Unit 1: River Valley &
Classical Civilizations
 Unit 2: Greece & Rome
Periodization 2:
Post-Classical Era (6001450)
 Unit 3: Islam & Africa
 Unit 4: Byzantine Empire
& the Middle Ages
 Unit 5: Americas, China,
& the Mongols
Periodization 3: Transition to
the Modern World (14501750)
 Unit 6: The Renaissance
& Protestant Reformation
 Unit 7: Exploration &
Scientific Revolution
Periodization 4:
Early Modern Era (17501914)
 Unit 8: The Middle East,
Japan, & China
 Unit 9: Enlightenment,
Revolutions, & Napoleon
 Unit 10: Industrial
Revolution & Imperialism
Periodization 5:
The World at War (19141945)
 Unit 13: World War I &
the Russian Revolution
 Unit 14: World War II
Periodization 6:
Late 20th Century (1945Present)
 Unit 15: The Cold War
 Unit 16: Decolonization
& Globalization
AP World History Unit 14 Organizer
Unit 14: World War II
The Big Picture:
The peacemakers at the end of World War I created a League of Nations to prevent future wars, but the treaty brutally punished
Germany and inadvertently created conditions that led to another world war in 1939. Totalitarian regimes came to power, not only in
Germany but in the Soviet Union, Japan and Italy. The economic conditions of the Great Depression contributed to the rise of these
regimes. In the twenty years between the world wars, major developments in physics, psychology, and art took place throughout the
world. The fighting of WWI was surpassed by the fighting of WWII. Unlike the first world war that was fought in Europe, the second
world war was fought in Europe, Asia, and Africa between the Allied and Axis Powers. WWII brought a new change with the dropping
of the atomic bomb serving as a turning point in world history. At the end of the war, the United Nations was formed to do what the
League of Nations did not; maintain peace. As things wrapped up with WWII the next phase of world history was heating up with
tensions leading to the Cold War, as the two superpowers of the United States and Soviet Union squared off.
Unit Pacing:
4/16–Years Between the
World Wars
4/22–Totalitarian Regimes
4/24–WWII 1939-1942
4/28–WWII 1942-1945
4/30– CCOT (1900-Present)
5/1–Unit 14 Test
Homework Due:
4/16–No Homework
4/22–Document Analysis
4/24– Reading Assignment,
Questions 1-28
4/28–Reading Assignment
Questions 29-44
4/30–Reading Assignment
Questions 45 – 60
and Review CCOT
Rubric
5/1–Test Review
1.
Key Terms and Phrases:
Einstein, Freud and Picasso 15. Franklin Roosevelt
2. Great Depression
16. Allied Powers
3. Totalitarianism
17. Axis Powers
4. Benito Mussolini
18. Holocaust (Final Solution)
5. Fascism
19. Pearl Harbor
6. Adolf Hitler
20. El-Alamein
7. Nazism
21. Stalingrad
8. Hirohito & General Tojo
22. D-Day
9. Joseph Stalin
23. Island Hopping
10. Appeasement
24. Manhattan Project
11. Munich Pact
25. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
12. Sudetenland
26. Tehran Conference
13. Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact
27. Yalta Conference
14. Winston Churchill
29. United Nations
28. Potsdam Conference
Essential Questions:
1. What were the most important changes that took place between the world wars from 1919 to 1939?
2. How did each help lead to World War II: (a) economic depression, (b) rise of totalitarian regimes,
(c) expansion of Germany, Italy, Japan, (d) Nazi-Soviet Pact, and (e) Invasion of Poland?
3. What were the important battles and developments during WWII: (a) in Europe and (b) in the Pacific?
4. What were the most important changes that took place after World War II in 1945?
TEKS
1F, 10, 11A, 11B,
12A, 12B, 12C,
16A, 18D, 19B,
20D, 22A, 22D,
28C, 28E
Unit 14 – Reading Assignment One
Chapter 31 Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World
Order
1.
World War Two exhausted Europe as a _______________________
and propelled the ________________________________ to new
world status.
2.
World War Two formally broke out in _________________.
3.
The early phases of the depression triggered growing political
fragmentation in ______________________, particularly through the
rise of various _______________________.
4.
5.
By 1937, the government of Japan was dominated by a tough
________________________________________________
During the late 1920s, _________________________________
forces seemed to be gaining ground in their effort to unify their chaotic
nation after the 1911 revolution.
13. By fascists leaders in Italy and Germany shared the same goals and
promised their people an ____________________________to
achieve nationalist glories.
14. List the four violations Hitler committed against the Treaty of
Versailles.
1. _____________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________
15. What was Frances’ and Britain’s reaction to these violations?
________________________________________________
16. Who did Germany and Italy support in the Spanish Civil War (19361939)?
________________________________________________
17. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939),
_______________________ was the only nation to effectively
support the republican forces.
6.
In 1931, the Japanese army marched into ____________________
and declared it an independent state.
7.
What issue caused Japan to withdraw from the League of Nations?
________________________________________________
8.
_______________________________ was the political and
ideological leader of the National Socialists Party in Germany.
19. Explain the terms of the Munich Conference.
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
9.
The Nazis advocated many things, but among their leading goals was an
______________________________________________________
______________________________________.
20. British Prime Minister, ____________________________,
proclaimed that his policy of appeasement had won “peace in our time.”
10. In 1933, Hitler took power ___________________ in Germany.
11.
In Hitler’s view, the essence of the state was _______________, and
the function of the state was ________________.
12. __________________ was the leader of fascist Italy.
18. In 1938, Germany peacefully annexed the German state of
__________________.
21. Germany and the Soviet Union concluded an agreement to take over
____________________________________.
22. It was Hitler’s attack on _____________________________ that
convinced Britain and France that nothing short of war would stop the
Nazis.
23. By 1937, war had broken out in Asia between ________________ and
_______________________.
24. List the nations who were members of the Tripartite Pact.
________________________________________________
33. Hitler’s air offensive to win the skies over England was known as the
__________________________________________.
25. List the three main reasons why France and Britain were not eager for
another war.
1. ________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________
34. ______________________________ was the iron willed British
Prime Minister during World War Two.
26. Why did the United States maintain a policy of isolationism during the
1930s?
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
36. As with Napoleon’s invasion attempt over a century before,
_________________ also came to the Russians’ aid.
27. Germany and Japan enjoyed almost ultimate victory prior to the year’s
______________________; however, after these years the tide of
the war switched to the Allied nations.
28. List the three reasons why the tide changed to the Allied nations.
1. _____________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________
Unit 14 – Reading Assignment Two
Chapter 31
29. It was the United States’ holdings in
_______________________________________, along with
American attempts to
___________________________________________, which
convinced Japanese leaders that a clash was inevitable.
30. In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the
United States into World War II?
________________________________________________
31. Describe the German strategy known as the “Blitzkrieg.”
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
32. By the summer of 1940, most of ____________________ lay in
German hands, while a semi-fascist collaborative regime ruled in
_______________________.
35. The balance of the war in Europe shifted in 1941 when Germany invaded
_________________________________.
37. American involvement in the European war began to make itself felt in
1942 when American and British forces challenged the Germans in
_________________________________.
38. After the failed German siege at
_______________________________, in 1942, the Red armies
began to take the offensive on the Eastern front.
39. American and British forces second goal was the drive the Germans
from the
________________________________________________
40. Then in 1944, in order to open a second front on west of Germany, the
American and British forces invaded __________________.
41. In late April 1945, Russian and American troops met on the
_________________.
42. What was the fate of Hitler?
__________________________________________
43. Japan’s surrender in the Pacific was precipitated by
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
_______________________.
44. Japanese troops in China killed and tortured thousands of civilians. For
example, in the city of __________________________ as many as
300,000 civilians were killed.
Unit 14 – Reading Assignment Three
Chapter 31-32
45. Hitler’s decision to eliminate the Jews throughout Europe resulted in
the ________________________________ deaths.
46. Define the term Holocaust.
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
47. Why did American officials decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan?
1. _____________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
48. The bombing of Hiroshima killed more than
_________________________ civilians.
49. Overall, at least ___________________________ people were killed
in World War Two.
50. Which nation had the most casualties, with estimates of 20 million
dead?
________________________________________________
51. Name the five nations that hold permanent seats on the United Nations
Security Council.
1. _____________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________
4. _____________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________
52. Describe the primary mission of the United Nations.
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
53. It was at the ________________________________________
(1943) where the Soviet Union pressed the Western powers to open a
new front in France, which was done with the invasion of Normandy in
1944.
54. It was at the ______________________________________ (1945)
that the British, Americans, and Soviet governments decided to divide
Germany into four occupation zones, which would be disarmed and
purged of Nazi influence.
55. It was at the ______________________________________ (1945)
where the allied nations agreed that the Soviet Union would take much
of eastern Poland, while the Poles were compensated by receiving part
of eastern Germany.
56. After the war it was decided that Japan would be occupied by
_______________.
57. After the war ________________ regained most of its former
territory.
58. Which nations, created in the aftermath of World War I, lost their
independence following World War II?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
_____
59. After the war Soviet troops occupied the nations of;
_______________________,
_________________________________,
_______________________________, and
____________________________________.
60. The peace settlements of World War II set the stage for two great
movements that would shape international contacts in the latter part of
the 20th century.
1. ___________________________________________________
_______________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________