<p> Unit #12- World War II Target Review</p><p>1. You will know the vocabulary associated with this unit and apply the meanings to better understand the major ideas.</p><p> 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)</p><p>2. You will understand the concept of Fascism and its impact on Germany and Italy.</p><p> a. What is fascism? How is it different from an absolute monarchy?</p><p> b. Who were the two major fascist leaders in Europe and what were their goals?</p><p>3. You will understand the situation in Europe in the years between WWI and the start of WWII.</p><p> a. What is the significance of Hitler taking over the Nazi Party in Germany in 1921 and Mussolini becoming Premier of Italy in 1922?</p><p> b. What was the significance of Mein Kampf, the autobiography by Hitler and what does it mean in English?</p><p> c. Why did Hindenburg appoint Hitler Chancellor in 1933?</p><p> d. What title did Hitler take in 1934 and what did this mean?</p><p> e. What was the significance of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin for Hitler? What did Jesse Owens do to part of that?</p><p> 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?</p><p> h. Where did Germany invade and take over in 1938, did they fight back, did anyone do anything about it?</p><p> i. What was Kristallnacht? What was this the first example of? Were there warnings before this?</p><p> j. What was the Munich Conference? What is appeasement? How did both sides feel after?</p><p> k. What was the Nazi Soviet Pact? What did it mean to both countries?</p><p> 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?</p><p> m. What did the British and French finally do?</p><p>4. You will understand the two sides of WWII and the important people involved. </p><p> a. What countries were members of the Allied Powers?</p><p> b. Who were some of the important people for the Allied Powers during WWII? c. What countries were members of the Axis Powers?</p><p> d. Who were some of the important people for the Axis Powers during WWII?</p><p>5. You will understand the course of WWII and the major events that took place.</p><p> a. What does Germany do right away in May 1940?</p><p> b. By June 1940 what did Western Europe look like?</p><p> c. What was the “Miracle of Dunkirk”?</p><p> d. What country did Germany focus on by July 1940? How did they attack them differently? How successful were they?</p><p> e. What was the Lend-Lease Act and what was the US reason for it?</p><p> f. Who was Rudolf Hess and what did he do in May 1941? What was Hitler’s reaction?</p><p> g. What was Operation Barbarosa?</p><p> h. What was the “Final Solution”? </p><p> 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?</p><p> k. What happened on December 7, 1941? What impact did this have? What was the “Day of Infamy” speech?</p><p> l. Right after Pearl Harbor what did the Japanese do?</p><p> m. What was Auschwitz? Where was it?</p><p> n. Who was Douglas MacArthur and what did he end of doing in the Philippines? What was his famous quote?</p><p> o. What happened at the Battle of the Coral Sea? Where was it? Who won? What did the outcome mean?</p><p> 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?</p><p> q. What was the Battle of Midway? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?</p><p> r. What was the Battle of Guadalcanal? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?</p><p> s. What was the Battle at El Alamein? Where was it? Who won? </p><p> t. What was Operation Torch? What was the purpose? u. Who met at Casablanca and what did they discuss?</p><p> v. What was the Battle of Stalingrad? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?</p><p> 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?</p><p> x. What do the Soviets begin to do by December 1943? What does this mean?</p><p> y. What was the Battle of Anzio? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?</p><p> z. What was the D-Day Invasion? Where did it happen? What was the outcome? What was the significance?</p><p> aa. What happens in the war in Europe after the D-Day Invasion?</p><p> ab. What was the Battle of Leyte Gulf? Where was it? Who won? What was significant about it?</p><p> ac. What was the Battle of the Bulge? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?</p><p> 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?</p><p> af. What was the Yalta Conference? Who met and what did they discuss?</p><p> ag. What finally happens in March 1945?</p><p> ah. What happens to Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945? What does this mean for Truman?</p><p> ai. What did they call the Soviet Army? By April 1945 what were they achieving?</p><p> aj. What happens to Mussolini and Hitler in late April 1945?</p><p> ak. What was the Battle of Okinawa? Where was it? Who won? What was the significance?</p><p> al. When does the war end in Europe?</p><p> am.When was the United Nations officially created?</p><p> an. What was the Manhattan Project? When was the first atomic bomb tested? Where?</p><p> ao. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima? ap. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki?</p><p> aq. When did the war in the Pacific officially end? Where?</p><p> ar. What was the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal? </p>