Download Learning Guide CH 26 World War II (Sections 1 and 2)

Learning Guide CH 26 World War II (Sections 1 and 2)
Vocabulary- These words can be found in the glossary.
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1. dictator
6. blitzkrieg
2. fascism/fascist
7. Lend-lease Act
3. anti-Semitism
8. disarmament
4. totalitarian
5. appeasement
Important People and Events- These words need to be described in a complete
sentence, a 1- sentence summary. Insert as many vocabulary words or facts as
possible in the summary sentence you write.
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1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. Winston Churchill
2. Adolf Hitler
9. Hideki Tojo
3. Benito Mussolini
10. Emperor Hirohito (not in book)
4. Joseph Stalin
11. The Battle of Britain
5. Neville Chamberlain
12. Atlantic Charter
6. Munich Conference
13. Pearl Harbor
7. Soviet-German Non-Aggression
Pact
Big Idea Questions – You should be able to explain these questions from reading
the textbook sections and/or from class notes.
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1. List the causes or WWII (Graphic Organizer)
2. List the factors that allowed dictators to come to power.
3. Name the leaders of each major country in the war.
4. What goals did the leaders of of the nations of Germany, Italy and Japan share
in the 1930s?
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5. Name the major Allied and Axis Powers. (3 major powers on each side)
6. Create a timeline of events showing Germany’s aggression from March 1936
to June 1941.
7. What was the initial U.S. response to the war in Europe.
8. Describe the events that led the U.S. from an attitude of isolationism to
involvement in WWII.
9. List reasons for the involvement United States in World War II.
Learning Guide CH 26 World War II (Sections 3,4 and 5)
Vocabulary- These words can be found in the glossary.
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9. mobilization
10. ration
11. internment camp
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12. V-E Day
13. Genocide
14. Concentration
camp
15. Holocaust
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16. Island hopping
17. Kamikaze
18. V-J Day
Important People and Events- These words need to be described in a complete sentence,
a 1- sentence summary. Insert as many vocabulary words or facts as possible in the
summary sentence you write.
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14. WACs
15. WAVs
16. Tuskegee Airmen
17. Rosie the Riveter
18. Code Talkers
19. Nisei
20. Executive Order
9066 (not in book)
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
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21. Dwight D.
Eisenhower
22. D-day
23. Battle of the
Bulge
24. Harry S. Truman
25. Stalingrad
26. Auschwitz
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27. Douglas
MacArthur
28. Bataan Death
March
29. Battle of Midway
30. Chester Nimitz
31. Battle of Latye Gulf
32. Albert Einstein
33. Potsdam
Declaration
34. Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Big Idea Questions – You should be able to explain these questions from reading the
textbook sections and/or from class notes.
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Identify changes in the American home front during World War II (Graphic Organizer)
Describe the ways that women contributed to the war effort.
Describe the changing role of African Americans in U.S. society during World War II.
How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor affect the lives of Japanese Americans>
How did wartime industrial production help the American economy recover from the Great
Depression?
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Create a timeline of major events from the summer of 1943 to VE Day in May 1945.
What was the purpose of Hitler’s “Final Solution”? Briefly describe the methods used to carry
out this plan.
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What made the strategy of islan hopping effective?
What made the Japanese soldier more difficult to defeat than other countries’ soldiers?
Create a timeline showing the development of the atomic bomb and its role in WWII.
What role did the atomic bomb play in ending the war in the