WH Ch 32
World War II 101 - SNL
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