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Unit #7 Reading Guide:
World War II & the Holocaust (1937-1945)
Essential Questions:
EQ 1: What makes a country powerful?
EQ 2: Why are some states more powerful than others?
EQ 6: What role does leadership have in the fate of a country?
EQ 7: Why do countries go to war?
EQ 12: What determines whether countries will be friendly or antagonistic towards each other?
EQ 16: When does have a society have the right to intervene in another society’s affairs?
EQ 23: What causes discrimination against a particular group of people?
EQ 25: What is the best way to respond to an aggressor?
EQ 26: What makes genocide possible?
EQ 27: Does a noble goal ever justify the use of violence?
19-1: Paths to War
Anschluss
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Rhineland
Sudetenland
Chiang Kai-shek
demilitarized area
Munich Conference
Rape of Nanjing
appeasement
Josef Stalin
Second Sino-Japanese War
Benito Mussolini
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact sanctions
Rome-Berlin Axis
Manchukuo
1. I can trace the steps of German aggression.
2. I can explain how the Western powers responded to aggression and why they took
this approach.
3. I can identify the shifting alliances and explain why each country chose the side that it
did.
4. I can trace the steps of Japanese aggression.
5. I can explain why Japan went to war.
19-2: The Course of World War II
blitzkrieg
Bataan Death March
June 6, 1944 (D-Day)
Maginot Line
Hideki Tojo
Normandy
Dunkirk
Erwin Rommel
Battle of the Bulge
Vichy France
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Iwo Jima
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Okinawa
isolationism
Battle of Midway
Harry S. Truman
neutrality
Douglas MacArthur
Hiroshima
Battle of Britain
island-hopping
Nagasaki
Operation: Barbarossa
Winston Churchill
Pearl Harbor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. I can trace the course of the European theater from the invasion of Poland to the
occupation of Berlin.
7. I can explain why German forces were so successful at the beginning of the war.
8. I can identify the major turning points in the war.
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9. I can explain why the United States was at first neutral and why it later become
involved in the war.
10. I can trace the course of the Pacific theater from the attack on Pearl Harbor to
the final surrender of Japan.
11. I can analyze which factors persuaded Truman to drop the atomic bombs.
19-3: The New Order and the Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhard Heydrich
Holocaust
Einsatzgruppen
resettlement
collaborators
Final Solution
Extermination centers
antisemitism
genocide
Auschwitz
“Asia for the Asiatics”
12. I can describe what the Nazis did in the territories they conquered.
13. I can describe the goals of Nazi genocide and how they went about achieving
them.
14. I can describe Japanese colonial policies.
19-4: Home Front and Aftermath of War
kamikaze
blitz
firebombing of Dresden
15. I can describe the economic mobilization necessary to fight the war.
16. I can analyze the impact of the war on civilian populations.
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