Download World History Chapter Fourteen Agenda

World History Chapter Fourteen Agenda
Schedule
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Monday – 5-02-16
o 31.1 - 31.4
Tuesday – 5-03- 16
o 31.1 - 31.4
Wednesday – 5-04-16
o 31.1 - 31.4
Thursday – 5-05 -16
o 31.1 - 31.4
*Due to testing and schedule changes be sure all of Chapter
31 guided readings are completed by Thursday
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Monday – 5-09-16
o World War II
Tuesday – 5-10-16
o 32.1&32.2
Wednesday- 5-11- 16
o 32.3 & 32.4
Thursday 5-12-16
o Review
Friday 5-13-16
o Chapter Fourteen Test
Friday – 5-06-16
o Vocabulary Quiz
Note: Listed above are the readings for this chapter. The needed chapters are uploaded to the chapter folder. Questions will
be asked about the readings at instructor’s discretion. Please do your assigned reading on the indicated day.
Vocabulary
14-A
totalitarianism - government control over every aspect of public and private life. Stalin's communist Soviet Union and
Hitler's Nazi Germany are key examples.
Joseph Stalin - communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
Great Depression - the severe economic depression that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
Franklin Roosevelt - President of the United States throughout most of the Great Depression and WWII.
Fascism - a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, dictatorial oneparty rule, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Benito Mussolini - fascist dictator of Italy during WWII; the original fascist.
Adolf Hitler - leader of the Nazi party and fascist dictator of Germany during WWII.
Weimar Republic - the parliamentary representative democracy established in Germany after its defeat in WW I.
Nazi Party - National Socialist German Worker's Party - a radical right wing political party that came to power in Germany
during the 1930's and was led by Adolf Hitler.
appeasement - The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war, as the Western powers did with Hitler at the
Munich Conference.
Non-Aggression Pact - An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another.
Stock Market Crash - A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices, driven by a public panic, across a significant cross-section
of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. This occurred in the The U.S. in 1929.
Tojo, Hideki - Military general and prime minister of Japan during WWII. He convinced the Japanese emperor to approve of
the attack on Pearl Harbor. He would be hanged in 1948 after being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremburg Trials.
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14-B
blitzkrieg - "lightening war" - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive
attacks with infantry forces.
Allied & Axis Powers - The opposing combatants of WWII. Key Allied Powers were France, Great Britain, the Soviet
Union, China, and, later, the United States. The key Axis Powers were Germany, Italy and Japan.
Battle of Britain - a series of battles fought over Britain between German and British air forces. Hitler's first defeat.
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII.
Pearl Harbor - a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against a U.S. naval base in Hawaii that
drew the U.S. into war.
Battle of Midway - a critical battle in the Pacific Campaign of the war in which the U.S. Navy decisively defeated the
Japanese Navy, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.
D-Day - the day on which the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault in all of world history onto the beaches of Nazi
controlled Normandy, France.
Manhattan Project - code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in
World War II.
Albert Einstein - a Jewish physicist who is considered to be the father of modern physics and would play a key role in the
development of the atomic bomb.
atomic bomb - the unleashing of this weapon over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, brought about the
end of WWII.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki - two Japanese cities destroyed by U.S. atomic bombs in 1945.
United Nations - an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 that replaced the League of Nations.
Big Three - A reference to the three key Allied powers of World War II: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great
Britain, represented by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill respectively.
island hoping - A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World
War II. It involved bypassing heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrating limited Allied resources on
strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan.
Munich Conference - A 1938 meeting of representative from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany at which Britain and
France appeased Hitler by agreeing to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Hitler's pledge to
respect Czechoslovakia's new borders.
War in the Pacific - The battles fought by the U.S. against Japanese forces in the Pacific theater of war during WWII.
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14-C
anti-Semitism - Hatred and prejudice against Jews.
Dachau and Auschwitz - Two concentration camps used by the Nazis to help carry out Hitler's Final Solution. One was
located in Germany, the other in Poland.
Final Solution - Hitler's program of systematically killing off the Jewish people.
Gestapo - The secret police of Nazi Germany and Nazi occupied Europe during WWII.
Ghettos - Enclosed city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live. Known for their unhealthy and tightly
cramped quarters, these areas were often the first stepping-stone on the road to the extermination of European Jewry.
Holocaust - The mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and
during World War II.
Kristallnacht - "Night of Broken Glass" - in 1938, a series of anti-Semitic attacks launched against Jews throughout Nazi
Germany and parts of Austria by Nazi storm troopers in which Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were destroyed.
Nuremberg Laws - Anti-Semitic laws passed in Nazi Germany shortly after the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler. The
laws attempted to define who was Jewish, and then proceeded to deny Jews German citizenship, civil-service jobs, and the
right to marry other Germans.
Nuremberg Trials - A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, that tried Nazi leaders
on acts of aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity.
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Guiding Questions
14-A
Economic recessions and depressions are characteristics of free enterprise and economic systems.
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What were the international, political and economic causes of global depression?
How did governments in the Soviet Union, the United States and Germany attempt to address the challenges posed
by the Great Depression?
Fear and distrust between nations can impede social, political, and economic relationships.
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How did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to bitterness in and between nations in the years leading up to World War
II?
Dominant political and economic philosophies compete for global influence.
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What are the primary characteristics of a totalitarian state?
Though both communist and fascist governments supported totalitarian principles, how did they differ in their goals
and ideology?
14-B
Fear and distrust between nations can impede social, political, and economic relationships.
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What steps did the leader of Japan, Italy and Germany take in the 1930's that increased international tensions and
ultimately led to the outbreak of World War II.
What steps did Franklin D. Roosevelt take in supporting the Allies before U.S entry into the war? What events
ultimately drew the United States into World War II?
What were the key events that ultimately led to an Allied victory?
Scientific and technological discovery and invention affect the development of human societies.
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What was the Manhattan Project and what was its impact on World War II?
14 - C
Mass murder and genocide are often politically motivated.
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What was Hiltler's "Final Solution"?
What methods did the Nazis use to carry out its aims?
Nations use diplomacy, political or economic sanctions, or war to resolve international conflicts that affect the national
welfare.
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How did the Nuremberg trials and the establishment of the United Nations reflect in increasingly politically
connected world?
Supporting Questions
31.1 & 31.2
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What effect did Einstein’s theory of relativity and Freud’s theory of the unconscious have on the public?
What advances were made in transportation and communication in the 1920s and 1930s?
Why was the Weimar Republic considered weak?
What caused the stock market crash of 1929?
31.3 & 31.4
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For what political and economic reasons did the Italians turn to Mussolini?
What beliefs and goals did Hitler express in Mein Kampf?
How did Japan plan to solve its economic problems?
Why was Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland a significant turning point toward war?
32.1 & 32.2
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What event finally unleashed World War II?
Why was capturing Egypt’s Suez Canal so important to the Axis powers?
What was Yamamoto’s objective at Pearl Harbor?
How did Japan try to win support from other Asian countries?
32.3 & 32.4
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Name two tactics that Hitler used to rid Germany of Jews before creating his “Final Solution.”
What tactics did Hitler use during the “Final Solution”?
Why were consumer goods rationed during the war?
What was Operation Overlord?
32.5
17. Why did Europeans leave their homes following the war?
18. What were two of the most important steps that MacArthur took in Japan following the war?