Study Guide World War II Terms: Nazism, brown shirts, Mein Kampf, chancellor, Fuhrer, aggression, Isolationism, Third Reich, Anschluss, Munich Conference, Sudetenland, Polish Corridor, non-aggression pact, blitzkrieg, Maginot Line, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Mussolini, Operation Barbarossa, Aryans, Holocaust, antiSemitism, Nuremberg laws, Kritallnacht, ghettos, Auschwitz Europe
How did Hitler gain control of Germany? How did Hitler believe the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany? How was Germany affected by the depression? What other countries were ruled by dictators? Where did democracy survive? Why did it survive in some countries? Why did the world’s democracies fail to stop the aggressions? What year did Hitler move his troops into Austria? What happened at the Munich Conference? How did the government of Czechoslovakia react to Hitler’s demands? How did the rest of Europe react to these demands? How did the government of Poland react to Hitler’s demands? Who did Hitler sign an agreement with? Which countries said they would protect Poland? What agreement did Hitler and Stalin make? What did they secretly plan to do? Why did Poland fall to the Germans so quickly? What caused Britain and France to declare war? Who did they declare war against? What was the phony war? Where did de Gaulle go when Hitler invaded France? Why did Germany lose the Battle of Britain? What countries did Hitler invade? Draw a small map to make sure you understand where these countries are and in what order they were invaded. What did the Red Army do to keep supplies out of Germany hands? What happened to the people in Leningrad after the Germans surrounded the city? What helped the Soviets kept the Germans out of Moscow? How many German soldiers died trying to take Moscow? What two things did Hitler blame on the Jewish Germans? What did Hitler force the Jewish people to wear? What triggered Kritallnacht? Where did Jewish refugees go? What was it like to live in a Jewish ghetto? What other groups did Hitler attack? What happened to the Jewish population in Poland when the Nazis invaded? What was it like to be a prisoner in a work camp? When did the mass extermination begin? Look at the table on 454. What percent of Jewish Poles survived? Soviet? Hungarian? Romania? German/Austria? How was the final solution carried out? Compare what happened to London to Warsaw. What affect did bombings have on the daily life of people throughout Europe? When the war ended, did the misery end? Why or why not? In France and Italy, which political party did people start to join? Why do you think they joined this party? What changed the people’s attitudes about this party? What happened at the Nuremberg Trials? Pacific What happened to Japan when the depression stuck in 1930? What happened to Emperor Hirohito? What was Manchuria rich in? When did Japan seize Manchuria? What happened to the city of Nanjing?
Review key battles: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Island hopping page 460 The Atomic Bomb, Look at the box titled Hiroshima: Day of Fire Take note of the numbers of people who died?