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World History
8. Causes and Consequences of WWII
Essential Content: World History 10.7
Textbook: Chapter 15.4 and 16
Germany, Italy, and Japan tried to build Empires. They began their expansion by conquering other nations and dominating them politically and economically. Led by the United States,
Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Allies scored key victories and won the war.
Learning Targets: Basic, essential information
8.1. As Germany, Italy, and Japan conquered other countries. Great Britain,
France, and the rest of the world followed a policy of appeasement (giving in
to keep peace) and did nothing to stop them.
8.2. British and French policy of appeasement and American isolationism failed to
stop Fascist German Aggression. In 1936, Hitler and Mussolini signed an
alliance with Japan. In 1939, General Francisco Franco became Spain’s Fascist
dictator.
8.3. Again breaking the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler continued aggressive
movements to gain control of countries in Europe. Again, Britain, France, and
the world continued the policy of appeasement and did nothing.
8.4. Hitler made more demands to increase the Third Reich (German Empire) and
looked toward Poland. Britain and France said they would protect Poland.
8.5. September 1, 1939, the Germans rapidly attacked Poland with massive force.
September 3, 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
8.6. President Franklin D Roosevelt kept the United States out of the increasing
aggressive acts in Europe, but provided aid for the Allies.
8.7. Allies political, diplomatic, and military leaders of WWII.
8.8. Axis political, diplomatic, and military leaders of WWII.
8.9. Major turning points and strategic decisions of WWII in the Europe Theater.
8.10. Major turning points and strategic decisions of WWII in the Pacific Theater.
8.11. The Nazi party policy of racial purity, especially against the European Jews,
resulted in the murder of 11 million people, including 6 million Jewish civilians.
8.12. WWII cost millions of human live and billions of dollars in damages. It left
Europe and Japan in ruins.
Additional Basic DPETS*
Japan and Manchuria
Italy and Ethiopia
German defies League; rearms
and marches into Rhineland
Rome-Berlin Axis
Axis Powers
Isolationism
Proficient DPETS*
Ineffectiveness of the League
of Nations to aggressive
powers
“East Asia for the Asiatics”
Civil War in Spain
Advanced DPETS*
“Rape of Nanking”
Other Atrocities in
China.
Bloodless overthrow of Austria
Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
Munich Conference
“…peace for our time.”
Anschluss
Non-aggression pact
Polish Corridor
blitzkrieg
Phony War (sitzkrieg)
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease Act (benefits of)
P.M. Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Joseph Stalin
Adolph Hitler
Erwin Rommel/Desert Fox
Benito Mussolini
Battle of Britain
D-Day (Normandy) invasion
Battle of the Bulge
Pearl Harbor/“Day of Infamy”
Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
Genocide
Holocaust (racial purity)
Kristallnacht
Nuremburg Trials
Demilitarization
Civilian and military losses
Rescue at Dunkirk
Vichy Government
Atlantic Charter
P.M. Neville Chamberlain
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Gen. Bernard Montgomery
Emperor Hirohito
Admiral Yamamoto
General Tojo
Leningrad
Battle of Stalingrad
North African Campaign
Doolittle Raid/30 Seconds
Over Tokyo
Battle of Guadalcanal
“Final Solution”
ghettos
Auschwitz
Occupation of Germany and
Japan
General Zhukov
Gen. Charles de Gaulle
Bataan Death March
Kamikazes
Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Nuremburg Laws
“Aryan Race”
Anti-Semitism
Democratization
Diet (Japanese gov’t)
DPETS: Dates, People, Events, Terms, and Statistics that must be in Cornell Notes. Basic, Proficient, and Advanced DPETS make EXEMPLARY Cornell Notes! Exemplary: excellent and used as an example to follow .
Skill set:
Extended response(S-28) /short essay
Enrichment:
movie
literature
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