Unit #12- World War II Target Review

1. You will know the vocabulary associated with this unit and apply the meanings to better understand the major ideas.

a. Using the vocabulary words from this unit write a paragraph using all of the words that explains this unit in your own words. (underline each vocabulary word)

2. You will understand the concept of Fascism and its impact on Germany and Italy.

a. What is fascism? How is it different from an absolute monarchy?

b. Who were the two major fascist leaders in Europe and what were their goals?

3. You will understand the situation in Europe in the years between WWI and the start of WWII.

a. What is the significance of Hitler taking over the Nazi Party in Germany in 1921 and Mussolini becoming Premier of Italy in 1922?

b. What was the significance of Mein Kampf, the autobiography by Hitler and what does it mean in English?

c. Why did Hindenburg appoint Hitler Chancellor in 1933?

d. What title did Hitler take in 1934 and what did this mean?

e. What was the significance of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin for Hitler? What did Jesse Owens do to part of that?

f. What was significant about Hitler re-arming the Rhineland? Did anyone do anything about it? g. What was the Washington Conference Treaty? Why did Japan get out of it?

h. Where did Germany invade and take over in 1938, did they fight back, did anyone do anything about it?

i. What was Kristallnacht? What was this the first example of? Were there warnings before this?

j. What was the Munich Conference? What is appeasement? How did both sides feel after?

k. What was the Nazi Soviet Pact? What did it mean to both countries?

l. Who invaded Poland first? What is a Blitzkrieg? What did it look like to the rest of the world when the other country invaded?

m. What did the British and French finally do?

4. You will understand the two sides of WWII and the important people involved.

a. What countries were members of the Allied Powers?

b. Who were some of the important people for the Allied Powers during WWII? c. What countries were members of the Axis Powers?

d. Who were some of the important people for the Axis Powers during WWII?

5. You will understand the course of WWII and the major events that took place.

a. What does Germany do right away in May 1940?

b. By June 1940 what did Western Europe look like?

c. What was the “Miracle of Dunkirk”?

d. What country did Germany focus on by July 1940? How did they attack them differently? How successful were they?

e. What was the Lend-Lease Act and what was the US reason for it?

f. Who was Rudolf Hess and what did he do in May 1941? What was Hitler’s reaction?

g. What was Operation Barbarosa?

h. What was the “Final Solution”?

i. What was the Holocaust? What impact did it have on the Jews of Europe? Did Hitler just kill Jews? What is a Concentration camp? j. What was the Atlantic Charter? Who was involved?

k. What happened on December 7, 1941? What impact did this have? What was the “Day of Infamy” speech?

l. Right after Pearl Harbor what did the Japanese do?

m. What was Auschwitz? Where was it?

n. Who was Douglas MacArthur and what did he end of doing in the Philippines? What was his famous quote?

o. What happened at the Battle of the Coral Sea? Where was it? Who won? What did the outcome mean?

p. What ended up happening to US and Filipino forces in the Philippines? What was the Bataan Death March? What happened to them the rest of the war?

q. What was the Battle of Midway? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?

r. What was the Battle of Guadalcanal? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?

s. What was the Battle at El Alamein? Where was it? Who won?

t. What was Operation Torch? What was the purpose? u. Who met at Casablanca and what did they discuss?

v. What was the Battle of Stalingrad? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?

w. What happens to Mussolini in July 1943? What does the new government end up doing? What do the German’s do about this? Who really controls Italy now?

x. What do the Soviets begin to do by December 1943? What does this mean?

y. What was the Battle of Anzio? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?

z. What was the D-Day Invasion? Where did it happen? What was the outcome? What was the significance?

aa. What happens in the war in Europe after the D-Day Invasion?

ab. What was the Battle of Leyte Gulf? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?

ac. What was the Battle of the Bulge? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?

ad. What was the Battle of Iwo Jima? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance? ae. What happens after the Battle of the Bulge?

af. What was the Yalta Conference? Who met and what did they discuss?

ag. What finally happens in March 1945?

ah. What happens to Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945? What does this mean for Truman?

ai. What did they call the Soviet Army? By April 1945 what were they achieving?

aj. What happens to Mussolini and Hitler in late April 1945?

ak. What was the Battle of Okinawa? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?

al. When does the war end in Europe?

am.When was the United Nations officially created?

an. What was the Manhattan Project? When was the first atomic bomb tested? Where?

ao. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima? ap. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

aq. When did the war in the Pacific officially end? Where?

ar. What was the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal?