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Global Conflagration:
World War II, 1939-1945
Group 1 pp. 868-872
identifications
Axis Powers
Grand Alliance
Chiang Kai-Shek
Neville Chamberlain
appeasement
Munich Agreement
Polish Corridor
Pact of Steel
Non-aggression Pact
“Winter War”
“The Phony War”
Questions
1. What had Hitler promised in his book Mein Kampf? What was the population of the Third Reich
after Germany annexed Austria in 1938?
2. Why were the years from 1933-1939 a bleak period for Britain, France, and America? (Be
complete)
3. Explain what happened in Manchuria that preceded Europe’s war.
4. Why did Japan withdraw from the League of Nations and what did they do next?
5. How did Hitler hope to avoid a two-front war while fighting Russia for living space?
6. When did Hitler begin determining foreign policy himself and what did he consider to be the
obstacles to dominating central Europe?
7. What led to Hitler’s annexing Austria?
8. How did Hitler provoke a crisis in Czechoslovakia?
9. Why did Britain send Neville Chamberlain to reason with Hitler? (Be complete)
10. How did Hitler respond to being granted everything he wanted?
11. What happened at Munich in 1938?
12. What was Chamberlains great mistake and what did the policy of appeasement result in?
13. Why did Hitler ally himself with Stalin and why did Stalin agree?
14. What happened in Poland in 1939?
15. What territories did Stalin take and why?
16. What resulted from the phony war delay in France?
Group 2 pp. 873-876
identifications
blitzkrieg
Maginot Line
panzers
Henri-Philippe Pétain
Vichy
Charles de Gaulle
Herman Göring
Winston Churchill
Operation Marita
Josip Broz
The “master race”
Lebensraum
“Rhineland bastards”
Questions
1. Describe Hitler’s next moves in 1940?
2. What did French strategists believe would protect France?
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Describe what is known as the Battle of Britain. (Be complete)
What was Churchill referring to when he said this was Britain’s “finest hour”?
Why were the Balkans important to Hitler?
Why did collaborators cooperate with Hitler in the Balkans and why did Hitler rule through
collaborators?
Explain the forms of resistance used against the German occupation.
Why was Tito admired by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin?
What was the White Rose society and what did their pamphlet say in appealing to all Germans?
(Be complete)
How was race used in the war effort in Europe, Asia, and America?
How did German racist ideology and Lebensraum relate to each other?
Why were the Gypsies targeted and what happened to them?
What happened to those with illnesses (both physical and mental) in Nazi Germany?
Who fit into the “asocial” category?
Group Three pp. 876-881
identifications
“Final Solution”
Reinhard Heydrich
Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
Heinrich Himmler
Zyklon B
Chelmno
Arbeit Macht Frei
Questions
1. Before Hitler’s final solution what anti-Semitic policies were implemented against the Jews in the
30’s and 40’s?
2. While Hitler did not issue a single order to exterminate the Jews, many competed to fulfill his
“mission”. Describe the importance of the meeting at Wannsee.
3. Where did the mass extermination of the Jews begin and then extend to?
4. Why were Russian Jews at the bottom of the list?
5. Who was responsible for the executions and why did Himmler encourage his men to commit the
worst atrocities?
6. Why was execution by gas introduced?
7. What country were the extermination camps built in? Name the camps.
8. How many were killed in the camps and who besides Jews were included in the total?
9. How many Jews died at Auschwitz?
10. Who were killed immediately in the camps?
11. Why was effective resistance impossible? (Be complete)
12. What happened in Warsaw in April 1943?
13. What did the Danish king do as a heroic act?
14. What happened at Lidice, Czechoslovakia?
15. What city in Germany in 1945 would the international community attempt to bring to justice those
accused of crimes against humanity?
Group 4 pp. 881-886
identifications
“New Order”
The Great Patriotic War
Lend-Lease Act
“arsenal of democracy”
Tripartite Pact
Douglas MacArthur
Questions
1. What happened in June and December of 1941 to make a European war into a world war?
2. Why did Hitler consider the Soviet Union his primary enemy?
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Why was the Soviet Union unprepared for war when Hitler invaded in June 1941?
Describe the invasion of the Soviet Union and why it ultimately failed.
Why did Hitler assume the position of commander in chief of the armed forces?
The Battle of Stalingrad is called a turning point in the war. What happened there?
What were the three advantages that the Soviets had against Germany?
What did the Soviet people do to support Stalin against Hitler?
How many Soviet people died in World War II?
What fear did Soviet people share as a result of the invasion?
What had limited the Japanese in its capacity to expand its frontiers? (3 things)
What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
What did Roosevelt say about December 7?
What lands did Japan conquer in Asia and the Pacific?
What was America’s weakness after finding itself at war against Japan and Germany?
Group 5 pp 886-894
identifications
Operation Overlord
Battle of the Bulge
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
The Big Three
Questions
1. What did Stalin want the Allies to do as soon as possible?
2. Where did the Allies move first in 1942 at Churchill’s insistence and what effect did this have on
Stalin?
3. What happened at the meeting at Teheran, Iran in November 1943?
4. What eventually happened to Hitler at the end of the war?
5. What did the Japanese view Southeast Asia for?
6. Explain completely how the Japanese treated their conquered populations.
7. What did the Japanese assume about both the Americans and Europeans and why?
8. What plan of Nimitz and MacArthur led to the defeat of Japan?
9. What accounted for the high death rate among civilians?
10. What new form of terrorizing the citizens was employed by victorious armies in this new era of
warfare?
11. Name the places and dates that the Big Three met during the war.
12. What did they agree to at Potsdam?
13. What did Stalin expect to happen in Eastern Europe and why after the war?
14. Why did communism prevail in Eastern Europe?
15. How many people died as a result of the war?