Monday, April 19, 2010

Study Guide WWII

Exam: World War II

Date: Monday, April 26, 2010

Materials to Study:

Textbook
- Chapter 31, Section 2, 3, 4
- Chapter 32, Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Documents and Classwork
- Great Depression Documents
- Fascism Packet
- Notes on the Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler
- Road to WWII Document Packet
- Nazi Propaganda Packet
- WWII Battles/Strategy Worksheet
- Notes on the Decision to Drop the Bomb vs. Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht
- Info from Holocaust Films

Terms to Know:

Great Depression
John Maynard Keynes
Fascism
Dictatorship
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Weimar Republic
Nazism
Third Reich
Anti-Semitism
Propaganda
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Appeasement
Aggressor
Isolationism
Munich Conference
Rhineland
Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Aryan Race
Blitzkreig
Battle of Midway
Battle of Okinawa
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
D-Day (Normandy)
Holocaust
-Nuremberg Laws
-Kristallnacht
-Ghettos
-Deportations
-Final Solution
-Camps
-Theresienstadt
-Auschwitz
Nuremberg Trials

Short Answer Questions:

1. Discuss the immediate and long term causes of the Great Depression.
2. Why did a movement like fascism come to power during a time of crisis?
3. Under what conditions in Hitler gain power
4. How did the Nazi's use propaganda to unify and stabilize Germany?
5. Discuss the effects of the policies of appeasement and isolationism.
6. What military tactics led to the Allied victory?
7. How did government policies created during WWII impact human behavior or the human experience of WWII?
8. Identify and explain 3 stages of the Holocaust.
9. Discuss the immediate effects of World War II.

Exam Format:

Multiple Choice
Short Answer