Periodization 1:
Foundations (5,000 BCE-600 CE)
· Unit 1: River Valley &
Classical Civilizations
· Unit 2: Greece & Rome
Periodization 2:
Post-Classical Era (600-1450)
· Unit 3: Islam & Africa
· Unit 4: Byzantine Empire
& the Middle Ages
· Unit 5: Americas, China,
& the Mongols
Periodization 3: Transition to
the Modern World (1450-1750)
· Unit 6: The Renaissance
& Protestant Reformation
· Unit 7: Exploration & Scientific Revolution
Periodization 4:
Early Modern Era (1750-1914)
· Unit 8: The Middle East, Japan, & China
· Unit 9: Enlightenment, Revolutions, & Napoleon
· Unit 10: Industrial Revolution & Imperialism
Periodization 5:
The World at War (1914-1945)
· Unit 11: World War I &
the Russian Revolution
· Unit 12: World War II
Periodization 6:
Late 20th Century (1945-Present)
· Unit 13: The Cold War
· Unit 14: Decolonization
& Globalization /
CP World History Organizer
Unit 12: World War II
The Big Picture:
The peacemakers at the end of World War I created a League of Nations to prevent future wars, but the treaty brutally punished Germany and inadvertently created conditions that led to another world war in 1939. Totalitarian regimes came to power, not only in Germany but in the Soviet Union, Japan and Italy. The economic conditions of the Great Depression contributed to the rise of these regimes. In the twenty years between the world wars, major developments in physics, psychology, and art took place throughout the world. The fighting of WWI was surpassed by the fighting of WWII. Unlike the first world war that was fought in Europe, the second world war was fought in Europe, Asia, and Africa between the Allied and Axis Powers. WWII brought a new change with the dropping of the atomic bomb serving as a turning point in world history. At the end of the war, the United Nations was formed to do what the League of Nations did not; maintain peace. As things wrapped up with WWII the next phase of world history was heating up with tensions leading to the Cold War, as the two superpowers of the United States and Soviet Union squared off.Unit Pacing: / Homework
(Answer Qs on Back) / Key Terms and Phrases:
3/19–Years Between the World Wars
3/20–Totalitarian Regimes
3/21–The Outbreak of World War II
3/22–WWII 1939-1942
3/25–The Holocaust
3/26–The Holocaust
3/27-28-Gateway Review
3/29 – NO SCHOOL – Good Friday
4/01- Science Gateway
4/02-Gateway Review
4/03-Social Studies Gateway
4/04-WWII 1942-1945
4/05–Atomic Bomb & End of WWII
4/08 - 4/12–SPRING BREAK
4/15–Global Impact of WWII
4/16–Unit 12 Review
4/17–Unit 12 Test / 3/19–31.1 & 31.2
3/20–Read 31.3
3/21–Read 31.4
3/22–Read 32.1
3/25–Read 32.2
3/26–Read 32.3
4/04–Read 32.4
4/05–Read 32.5
4/17– Complete Unit 12 Organizer / 1. Einstein, Freud and Picasso
2. Great Depression
3. Totalitarianism
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Fascism
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Nazism
8. Hirohito & General Tojo
9. Joseph Stalin
10. Appeasement
11. Munich Pact
12. Sudetenland
13. Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact
14. Winston Churchill / 15. Franklin Roosevelt
16. Allied Powers
17. Axis Powers
18. Holocaust (Final Solution)
19. Pearl Harbor
20. El-Alamein
21. Stalingrad
22. D-Day
23. Island Hopping
24. Manhattan Project
25. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
26. Tehran Conference
27. Yalta Conference
28. Potsdam Conference
29. United Nations
Essential Questions:
1. What were the most important changes that took place between the world wars from 1919 to 1939?
2. How did each help lead to World War II: (a) economic depression, (b) rise of totalitarian regimes,
(c) expansion of Germany, Italy, Japan, (d) Nazi-Soviet Pact, and (e) Invasion of Poland?
3. What were the important battles and developments during WWII: (a) in Europe and (b) in the Pacific?
4. What were the most important changes that took place after World War II in 1945? / AKS
AKS 46a
AKS 46c-g
AKS 47a-d
Course Website: http://centralgwinnett.net
Unit 12 Reading Guide—World War II
Go to www.classzone.com/cz/books/wh_survey05/book_home.htm, click “Activity Center” and find the “Audio Downloads” link to listen to each chapter.
After reading the chapters, go to “Review Center” and take the “Chapter Quizzes” and look at the “Flip Cards” to review the content from the book.
Chapter 31, Section 1
1. What were Einstein’s and Freud’s new ideas?
2. What two new styles arose in the visual arts?
Chapter 31, Section 2
3. Why was the postwar situation in Germany especially bad?
4. What cause the Great Depression?
5. How did the US deal with the Great Depression?
Chapter 31, Section 3
1. What did Mussolini promise the Italians?
2. What were some of Hitler’s beliefs?
3. What changes did Hitler make?
Chapter 31, Section 4
1. What territories did Japan invade?
2. What places did Germany and Italy invade?
3. What happened at the Munich Conference?
Chapter 32, Section 1
1. Why did Poland fall so quickly to the Germans?
2. Why did Germany fail to win the Battle of Britain?
3. What happened when Germany invaded the Soviet Union?
4. Name two ways in which the US supported the Allies.
Chapter 32, Section 2
1. How did the US respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
2. What countries lost territory to Japan early in the war?
3. Name three Allied victories against Japan.
Chapter 32, Section 3
1. How did the Holocaust begin?
2. How was the “Final Solution” carried out?
Chapter 32, Section 4
4. What major victories did the Allies win?
5. What happened to Japanese Americans?
6. Name two events that led directly to Japan’s surrender.
Chapter 32, Section 5
1. What conditions existed in Europe after WWII?
2. What were the Nuremberg Trials?
3. How did the government of Japan change ?