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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. 234819499 6/24/2017 Page 1 of 3 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. 234819499 6/24/2017 Page 3 of 3