Textbook+assignments+for+World+War+II

Event 1: 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Event 2: 1938 Munich agreement Event 3 1939 Germany Invades Poland Event 4 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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 * Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
 * Allies: United States, Great Britain, France


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 * Hitler could not conquer Britain because they could never control the skies over Britain and the British never surrendered
 * Blitzkrieg: overwhelming surprise attacks from the air, land and sea
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 * The attack on Pearl harbor prompted the United States to enter the war
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 * Dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini were able to gain power in the years before WWII because of feelings of betrayal by the world after WWI peace treaties.
 * The economic depression caused people to turn to strong leaders who would restore their nations to prosperity and power in return for giving up civil liberties
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 * __ Battle of Alamein: alli __**** es begin to push Nazis out of Africa **
 * __ Battle of Stalingrad: __** Soviets turn the tide against Nazis
 * __ Invasion of Sicily: __** Allies begin drive toward Germany in central Europe
 * __ D-Day __** Allies make major invasion of Europe


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 * Through Government draft and volunteers the United States was able to build an army for the war
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 * The allies conquered Northern Africa before attacking Southern Europe because they needed to establish bases along the Mediterranean from which to launch the attacks
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 * The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in the East because in losing, the Germans lost all hope of conquering the Soviet Union
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 * The war may have been different had Hitler decided to fight along side the Soviet Union rather than going against it. Germany might have won because it could have focused only on Western Europe instead of having to fight a war on two fronts
 * Page 769 A Closer Look #1 **
 * “those who no longer wished to taste the bitterness of terror”
 * Those who have kept back any of their possessions will be shot, so it is better to give up the possession immediately rather than risk death if they are later discovered
 * Page 769 A closer Look #2 **
 * Effect of sealing people up in a railway car:
 * People would likely feel cut of from any hope of aid or assistance from the outside world
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 * . Our eyes were opened, but too late means they realized they were being taken to a concentration camp
 * B. Effects of being uprooted from your home: it would make you sad and weak, unable to fight back. It would also allow the Nazis to take control of the land more easily
 * C. The book title, //Night//, from which the excerpt comes might refer to the dark times faced by
 * Wiesel and other victims of the Holocaust
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 * The Nazis took away peoples possessions and threatened them with death, to shoot them “like dogs”
 * The Nazis took away peoples possessions and threatened them with death, to shoot them “like dogs”


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 * __ event 1: __**** Battle of Midway (June 1942) **
 * __ Event 2: __** Invasion of Philippines (October 1944)
 * __ Event 3: __** atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (August 1945)
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 * Battle of Midway was considered a turning point in the war because
 * The United States Navy crippled the Japanese navy fleet
 * The United States military was able to move farther East, toward Japan, with much less opposition from Japan.
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 * Gaining control of the islands: Iwo Jima and Okinawa was important because
 * The United States could establish airbases close enough to Japan to begin air bombing of Japan
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 * The Japanese surrendered after the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki
 * August 9, 1945
 * Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945
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 * For: prevented losses of life that would have occurred if Japan continued to fight
 * Against: billions of dollars spent in developing the bomb could be used in other ways
 * It was too destructive and powerful
 * It was too destructive and powerful

rationing; paying higher taxes; buying war bonds
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 * World War II brought the nation out of the Great Depression
 * It promoted the production of material needed for the war. It caused the Gross national product (sum of all goods and services produced) to rise and unemployment to fall
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 * The war spurred African American migration from the rural South to the Industrialized North as African Americans moved north for better employment opportunities
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 * In response to growing Anti Japanese feeling after the bombing of Pearl harbor, the U.S. government sent pacific coast Japanese Americans to interment camps.
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 * The war years were both a time of opportunity and struggle for American Women and minorities.
 * The war created economic opportunities for women and minorities; however, both groups continued to struggle against racism and discrimination


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 * __ Effects of World War II __**
 * Large numbers of casualties
 * defeat of fascism
 * weakening of national economies
 * Nuremberg trails
 * formation of the U.N.
 * use of nuclear weapons

**__Page 783 #3c__** No battles were fought on American soil leaving the United Stated with little physical damage
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 * The Marshall plan: The United States donated money to the nations of Europe to help them rebuild their economies
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 * The GI bill helped WWII veterans by providing them with tuition for college and other economic assistance
 * The Nuremburg Trial established the principle that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime. Following orders in no excuse for genocide
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 * The United States emerged from the war better off than other nation.
 * The war pulled the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression
 * The war pulled the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression