Download Unit Objectives: Between the Wars and WWII

Honors World History
Unit Objectives: World War Two
Chapter 17
Themes:
What were the key causes of the Second World War?
What accounted for the western democracies’ reactions to fascist aggression in the
1930s?
Why did the Allies win the war?
What significant changes happened due to the outcome of the war?
In what way did the Cold War establish roots before the end of World War II?
German Remilitarization
German Occupation of the Rhineland
Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)
Spanish Civil War
Francisco Franco
Lebensraum
Anschluss (1938)
Appeasement
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
The Munich Crisis (1938)
German annexation of the Sudetenland
German annexation of Czechoslovakia
Nazi-Soviet Pact
German invasion of Poland (1939)
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
Dunkirk
Fall of France (1940)
Charles de Gaulle
Vichy France
Operation Sea Lion
The Battle of Britan (“The Blitz”)
Erwin Rommel
Lend-Lease Act
German Invasion of the USSR
Battle of Leningrad
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Coral Sea
Dwight Eisenhower
Allied invasion of Africa and Italy
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day
VE Day
Bataan Death March
“Island Hopping”
Douglas MacArthur
The Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Atlantic Charter
Casablanca Conference
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
The UN