#8 WWII

#8 Performance Standards & Specifications:

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);

1. What are the different events that could be considered the beginning of World War II?

2. What was the Rape of Nanking and why does it still matter today?

3. What was the blitzkrieg? How effective was the blitzkrieg?

4. Why was 1941 a significant year for the war?

5. How many lives were lost in the Battle of Stalingrad?

6. What happened to the Nazi 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad?

7. On what date was victory in Europe declared by the Allies?

8. What was the definite cause of World War II?

9. How might German agriculture been a reason for war?

10. How many Jews did the Nazis kill during the Holocaust?

11. Why is it unfair to categorize World War II as the Allies fighting for democratic ideals against

the totalitarian militaristic imperialism of the fascist Axis powers?

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, Russia, USSR);