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Ch 24 & 25: World War II
Ch 24 Sec 1: The Rise of Dictators (800-806)
Terms & People
Totalitarian:
Fascism:
Purge:
Nazism:
Axis Powers:
Appeasement:
Joseph Stalin:
Benito Mussolini:
Adolf Hitler:
Mein Kampf:
Neville Chamberlin:
Francisco Franco:
Main Ideas
1) How did Stalin change the government and the economy of the Soviet Union?
2) What were the origins and goals of Italy’s fascist government?
3) How did Hitler rise to power in Germany and Europe in the 1930’s?
4) What were the causes and results of the Spanish Civil War?
Ch 24 Sec 2: Europe Goes to War(807-811)
Terms & People
Blitzkrieg:
Collaboration:
Resistance:
Allies:
Main Ideas
1) How did the German invasion of Poland lead to war with Britain and France?
2) What were three reasons why Germany was able to defeat Poland in less than a month?
3) What wartime victories and setbacks did Germany experience in western Europe?
4) Why was the Battle of Britain an important victory?
Ch 24 Sec 3: Japan Builds an Empire (813-816)
Terms & People
Manchurian Incident:
Puppet State:
Burma Road:
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:
Rape of Nanjing:
Main Ideas
1) What were the causes and effects of Japan’s growing military power?
2) Why was the Manchurian Incident a turning point for Japan’s civilian government?
3) What was the initial outcome of Japan’s war against China?
4) Why did Japan look beyond China for future expansion?
Ch 24 Sec 4: From Isolationism to War (817-821)
Neutrality Acts:
Cash and Carry:
America First Committee:
Lend-Lease Act:
Tojo Hideki:
Dec. 7th, 1941:
Main Ideas
1) Why did the United States choose neutrality in the 1930’s?
2) How did American involvement in the European conflict grow from 1939 to 1941?
3) Why did Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor lead the United States to declare war?
Ch 25 Sec 1: Mobilization (826-831)
Terms & People
Selective Training & Service Act:
GI:
Office of War Mobilization:
Liberty Ship:
Victory Garden:
Norman Rockwell:
Code Talkers:
Main Ideas
1) How did Roosevelt mobilize the armed forces?
2) In what ways did the government prepare the economy for war?
3) How did the war affect daily life on the home front?
Ch 25 Sec 2: The New Deal’s Critics (832-840)
Terms & People
Atlantic Charter:
George Marshall:
Carpet Bombing:
D-Day:
Battle of the Bulge:
Winston Churchill:
General Erwin Rommel:
General Bernard Montgomery:
General George S. Patton:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower:
V-E Day:
Yalta Conference:
Main Ideas
1) Where did Americans join the struggle against the axis?
2) How did the war in the Soviet Union change from 1941 to 1943?
3) What role did air power play in the war in Europe?
4) Why did the invasion of Western Europe succeed?
5) What events marked the end of the war in Europe?
Ch 25 Sec 3: The Holocaust (841-845)
Anti-Semitism:
Holocaust:
Concentration Camp:
Kristallnacht:
Warsaw Ghetto:
Wannsee Conference:
Genocide:
Death Camp:
War Refugee Board:
Nuremberg Trials:
Main Ideas
1) In what ways did Germany persecute Jews in the 1930’s?
2) How did Germany’s policies toward Jews develop from murder into genocide?
Ch 25 Sec 4: The War in the Pacific (846-853)
Terms & People
Bataan Death March:
Geneva Convention:
Battle of the Coral Sea:
Battle of Midway:
Battle of Guadalcanal:
Island Hopping:
Battle of Leyte Gulf:
Kamikaze:
Battle of Iwo Jima:
Battle of Okinawa:
Manhattan Project:
General Douglas McArthur:
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Harry S. Truman:
V-J Day:
Main Ideas
1) What advances did Japan make in Asia and the Pacific in late 1941?
2) Which Allied victories turned the tide of war in the Pacific?
3) What was the strategy of the United States in the struggle to reconquer the Pacific islands?
4) Why were the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa important?
5) How did the Manhattan Project bring the war to an end?
Ch 25 Sec 5: The Social Impact of the War (855-861)
Terms & People
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE):
Bracero:
Barrio:
Interned:
Nisei:
Main Ideas
1) How did African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans experience the war at home?
2) What difficulties did Japanese Americans face?
3) In what ways did the war change conditions for working women?