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World War II and Its Aftermath
Chapter 16
10.8 Students anal yze the causes and consequences of World War II.
1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other
atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the
United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal
theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on
the importance of geographic factors.
4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).
5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final
Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain,
the United States, China, and Japan.
– IDs Create your own definition. What is this person place or thing and why is it important?
Section 16.1 –
1. Nonaggression pact
2. Invasion of Poland
3. blitzkrieg
4. Finland
5. Maginot Line
6. Dunkirk
7. Charles de Gaulle
8. Winston Churchill
9. Luftwaffe
10. Battle of Britain
11. Suez Canal
12. Desert Fox
13. Operation Barbarossa
14. Lend-Lease Act
15. Atlantic Charter
Section 16.2 –
16. Japanese expansion
17. oil for Japan
18. Admiral Yamamoto
19. Pearl Harbor
20. Philippines
21. Dutch East Indies
22. Bataan Death March
23. Doolittle's raid
24. Battle of the Coral Sea
25. Battle of Midway
26. Island hopping
27. Battle of Guadalcanal
Section 16.3
28. master race
29. Holocaust
30. Nuremberg Laws
31. Kristallnacht
32. jewish emigration
33. ghettos
34. the "Final Solution"
35. subhumans
36. extermination camps
37. resistance efforts
Section 16.4
38. Second Front
39. Battle of Alamein
40. Operation Torch
41. Dwight D. Eisenhower
42. Battle of Stalingrad
43. total war
44. rationing
45. propaganda campaigns
46. relocation camps
47. Operation Overlord
48. Battle of the Bulge
49. VE Day
50. Battle of Leyte Gulf
51. Battle of Okinawa
52. Atomic Bomb
Section16 . 5 –
53. Europe's post-war landscape
54. civilians
55. agriculture
56. post war governments
57. the communist party
58. the Nuremberg Trials
59. Allied bombing in Japan
60. demilitarization
61. Douglas MarArthur
62. Japanese Constitution
63. World's major powers
Possible Short Answer Questions: Variations of these questions may appear on the test.
1. How did dictators undermine the peace in the 1930s?
2. How was the Spanish Civil War a dress rehearsal for World War II?
3. Why were the western democracies unable or unwilling to stop aggressive dictators?
4. How did new technologies affect the fighting in World War II?
5. Why did Japan attack the United States? What were the effects of this attack?
6. How did nations mobilize for total war?
7. What battles were turning points in the war in Europe? What battles were turning points in the Pacific?
8. Why did the United States use the atomic bomb on Japan?
9. Which two leaders were most influential during World War II and why?
10. What were the human and material costs of World War II?
11. How did World War II change the global balance of power?
12. What were the origins of the Cold War?