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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 (600-1450)
 Unit 3: Islam & Africa
 Unit 4: Byzantine Empire
& the Middle Ages
 Unit 5: Americas, China,
& the Mongols
Periodization 3: Transition to
the Modern World (1450-1750)
 Unit 6: The Renaissance
& Protestant Reformation
 Unit 7: Exploration &
Scientific Revolution
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Unit 12: 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 devastating world war. In the twenty years between the world
wars, totalitarian regimes came to power in Italy (Benito Mussolini), Japan (Hideki Tojo), and Germany (Adolf Hitler). These nations
aggressively expanded in Europe, Africa, and Asia which ignited a new world war between the Allies and Axis Powers in 1939. World
War II proved to be a much larger, more costly, and more deadly war than World War I. Unlike the first world war that was fought in
only Europe, the second world war was fought in two theaters: Europe/North Africa and Asia. WWII brought new changes: the
discovery of the Holocaust, the development of atomic weapons, and the emergence of two dominant superpowers (the USA and
USSR). At the end of the war, the United Nations was formed to do what the League of Nations did not: maintain world peace.
Unit Pacing:
Homework
(Answer Qs on Back)
____–Years Between the World Wars
____–31.1 and 31.2
____–Totalitarian Regimes
____–Read 31.3
____–The Outbreak of World War II
____–Read 31.4
____–WWII 1939-1942
____–Read 32.1
Periodization 4:
Early Modern Era (1750-1914)
 Unit 8: The Middle East,
Japan, & China
 Unit 9: Enlightenment,
Revolutions, & Napoleon
 Unit 10: Industrial Revolution
& Imperialism
____–The Holocaust
____–Read 32.2
Periodization 5:
The World at War (1914-1945)
 Unit 11: World War I &
the Russian Revolution
 Unit 12: World War II
____–Unit 12 Test
____–The Holocaust
____–WWII 1942-1945
____–Read 32.3
____–Atomic Bomb and End of WWII
____–Read 32.4
____–Global Impact of WWII
____–Read 32.5
____--Unit 12 Review
____– Complete
Unit 12 Organizer
Key Terms and Phrases:
1. Einstein, Freud, Picasso
2. Great Depression
3. Totalitarianism
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Fascism
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Nazism
8. Hirohito and General Tojo
9. Joseph Stalin
10. Communism
11. Appeasement
12. Munich Pact
13. Sudetenland
14. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
15. Winston Churchill
Essential Questions:
16. Franklin Roosevelt
17. Allied Powers
18. Axis Powers
19. Holocaust (Final Solution)
20. Pearl Harbor
21. El-Alamein
22. Stalingrad
23. D-Day
24. Island Hopping
25. Manhattan Project
26. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
27. Tehran Conference
28. Yalta Conference
29. Potsdam Conference
30. United Nations
Periodization 6:
1. How did each help lead to World War II: (a) economic depression, (b) rise of totalitarian regimes,
Late 20th Century (1945-Present)
(c) expansion of Germany, Italy, Japan, (d) Nazi-Soviet Pact, and (e) Invasion of Poland?
 Unit 13: The Cold War
 Unit 14: Decolonization
2. What were the important battles and developments during WWII: (a) in Europe and (b) in the Pacific?
& Globalization
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3. How did each impact the post-war world: (a) Yalta Conference, (b) Potsdam Conference,
(c) formation of the United Nations, (d) formation of Israel?
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Unit 12 Reading Guide—World War II
After reading the chapters, answers the following questions to be turned before Unit #12 Test for extra credit on your test.
Chapter 31, Section 1
1. What were Einstein’s and Freud’s new ideas?
2.
2.
What countries lost territory to Japan early in the war?
3.
Name three Allied victories against Japan.
What two new styles arose in the visual arts?
Chapter 31, Section 2
3. Why was the postwar situation in Germany especially bad?
Chapter 32, Section 3
1. How did the Holocaust begin?
2.
4.
What cause the Great Depression?
5.
How did the US deal with the Great Depression?
Chapter 31, Section 3
1. What did Mussolini promise the Italians?
2.
What were some of Hitler’s beliefs?
3.
What changes did Hitler make?
Chapter 31, Section 4
1. What territories did Japan invade?
2.
What places did Germany and Italy invade?
3.
What happened at the Munich Conference?
Chapter 32, Section 1
1. Why did Poland fall so quickly to the Germans?
2.
Why did Germany fail to win the Battle of Britain?
3.
What happened when Germany invaded the Soviet Union?
4.
Name two ways in which the US supported the Allies.
Chapter 32, Section 2
1. How did the US respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
How was the “Final Solution” carried out?
Chapter 32, Section 4
4. What major victories did the Allies win?
5.
What happened to Japanese Americans?
6.
Name two events that led directly to Japan’s surrender.
Chapter 32, Section 5
1. What conditions existed in Europe after WWII?
2.
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
3.
How did the government of Japan change after World War II?