WH Ch 32

Standards:

Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and impacts of World War II from various perspectives, to include:

a. failures and successes of the treaty of Versailles and the league of nations; rise of totalitarianism (e.g., Nazi Germany’s policies of European domination, holocaust);

b. political, diplomatic and military leadership (e.g., Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco);

c. principal theaters of battle, major turning points and geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., Pearl Harbor, “island-hopping,” D-Day invasion, Stalingrad, atomic bombs dropped on Japan);

d. war crime trials

Previewing Main Ideas

Empire building

Germany, Italy, and Japan tried to build Empires. They began their expansion by conquering other nations and dominating them politically and economically.

Science and Technology

Far-reaching developments in science and technology change the course of World War II. Improvements in the aircraft, tank, and submarines and the development of radar and the atomic bomb drastically altered the way wars were fought.

Economics

Fighting the Axis terror weakened the economies of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and other European countries. In contrast, when the United States entered the war, its economy grew sharply. The strength of the American economy bolstered the Allied war effort.

Chapter Objective

Analyze the causes and results of World War II.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

SECTION 1 Hitler's Lightning War

Describe how Germany overran much of Europe and North Africa.

SECTION 2 Japan's Pacific Campaign

Explain how the Japanese expanded their power in the Pacific.

SECTION 3 The Holocaust

Describe the results of the "Final Solution."

SECTION 4 The Allied Victory

Summarize the Allied campaigns and the events that led to surrender.

SECTION 5 Europe and Japan in Ruins

Compare postwar governments in Europe and Japan.

Essential Questions

Vocabulary:

Concentration Camp

Camp where enemies of the government and other people are held against their will, often under brutal conditions

Counterattack

Attack made in response to an enemy's attack

Defenses

Weapons used against, or readiness for, attack

Devastated

Destroyed

Displaced Persons

People driven from their homeland by war or internal upheaval

Escorting

Traveling with for the sake of protection

Fleet

Number of ships operating together under one command

Inmates

Prisoners

Massive

Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans

Morale

Spirit

Persecuting

Harassing with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, or beliefs

Rationed

Limited the amount a person could have

Resistance

Fighting back

Strategic

Important or essential to a plan of action

Systematic

Done according to a plan or system

Across

• 1.Segregated Jewish areas
• 5.Hitler's program of genocide (2 wrds)
• 10.Russian site of important German defeat
• 11.Prosecution of Nazi war criminals (2 wrds)
• 12.Largest of the Nazi death camps
• 13.Lightning war

Down

• 2.Mass slaughter of Jews
• 3.Commander of D-Day Invasion
• 4.American citizens of Japanese descent
• 6.Fortifications along France's border with Germany (2 wrds)
• 7.Leader of the Free French forces during WWII(2 wrds)
• 8.Germanic peoples
• 9.Commander of Allied land forces in Pacific

Chapter Quiz:

The event that began World War II was

(A)the invasion of Poland

(B)the reoccupation of the Rhineland

(C)the invasion of Denmark and Norway

(D)the siege of Leningrad

The U.S declared war on Japan after

(A)the Battle of Midway

(B)the invasion of the Philippines

(C)the Battle of Guadalcanal

(D)the attack on Pearl Harbor

Hitler initially tried to solve the "Jewish problem" by

(A)creating ghettoes

(B)forced emigration

(C)the Final Solution

(D)the Nuremburg laws

World War II ended with

(A)the Battle of the Bulge

(B)the D-Day invasion

(C)the bombing of Nagasaki

(D)the bombing of Dresden

The most important accomplishment of the U.S. occupation of Japan was

(A)demilitarization

(B)the war crimes tribunal

(C)rebuilding Japan

(D)a new constitution

On the Final:

atomic bombs

Churchill, Winston

D-Day invasion

Emperor Hirohito

Franco, Francisco

Hitler, Adolf

island-hopping

Mussolini, Benito

Pearl Harbor

Roosevelt, Franklin

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad