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= = = LAST DAY FOR MISSING/REDONE WORK - FRIDAY, MAY 21ST!!! = =Current Unit: World War Two= = Essential Learnings: = 1. What caused WWII? 2. What was the Holocaust and how did it affect people? 3. Why did America join the war and how did it impact American society and economy? 4. What strategies did the Allies use to defeat the Axis Powers 5. What was the turning point in the war in the Pacific, what led up to it? 6. What were the results of the war?

===Study Guide Questions (use this as a GUIDE, not all of these questions will be on the quiz/test):=== EL1 1. The Nuremberg Laws made certain things illegal for Jews, give two examples of what they said. 2. Hitler wanted to expand the German empire, what country did he take over on March 12, 1938? 3. Which European country was going through a civil war at this time? 4. On September 12, 1938 Hitler demanded that _, part of Czechoslovakia, be part of Germany. 5. How did Neville Chamberlin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, respond to Hitler’s demands? 6. On November 10, 1938 //Kristallnacht// happened – what does that mean? 7. In March of 1939 Hitler broke his promise to stop taking land, what country did he take next? 8. In August of 1939 German soldiers marched into another country, what was it? 9. Who was the leader of Italy during WWII? 10. What is fascism? 11. What is it called when the government controls all aspects of people’s lives? 12. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union? 13. What is anti-Semitism? 14. Who was the leader of Germany during WWII? What was his nickname? 15. What is the definition of appeasement? 16. How did Winston Churchill want to respond to Hitler? 17. Who was the leader of Spain during WWII? 18. What is a dictator? // 19. Lebensraum // was Hitler’s reason for taking over other countries, what does it mean? 20. In Poland, Jewish people were forced to live in little “cities” that were surrounded by barbed wire, what were these places called? 21. What were two things that the Japanese had in common with Hitler/Germany?

EL2 22. What was the “systematic killing of millions of Jews during WWII” called? 23. What was the Nazis “final solution”? 24. What word means “the killing of an entire people”? 25. What were concentration camps and give one example/name of a camp? 26. How many Jews were killed in concentration caps during WWII? 27. What were two ways the Nazi marked the Jews’ identity cards? 28. What is the name of the largest ghetto in Poland? 29. What was the name of the first concentration camp that housed political prisoners? 30. List three things that the Nazis did to the Jews on the //Night of Broken Glass//. 31. Which country had the largest death camps? 32. Describe what life was like for the Jews at concentration camps (two details). 33. How did German military victories lead to the Nazis final solution? 34. What was the Nazi’s belief around Jews that converted religions? 35. Under the Nuremberg Laws, what was the definition of someone who was a Jew? 36. What were two ways that the Nazis marked the Jews identity cards?

EL3 37. How was FDR trying to help Britain fight the Germans? 38. What attack prompted the US to join WWII? When did the attack occur? 39. Which two countries declared war on the US after Pearl Harbor? 40. In Detroit, what happened to the automobile factories? 41. With many workers fighting in the war, who stepped in to run the factories? 42. What kinds of material were needed during the war, what were people asked to save/keep? 43. What is propaganda and what is one example? 44. Who became president after FDR? 1.45. What is “military and civilian preparation for war”? 2. 46. What is civil defense? 3. 47. What was the legal action taken against the Japanese Americans? 4. What were two things that the Japanese-Americans complained about in the camps? What were two things that they did to pass the time in the camps? 48. What kind of challenges did African Americans face during the war? 5. 49. What kind of sacrifice did Native Americans make during the war? EL 4 ** 50. What date was the largest land and sea attack in history? 51. Where did soldiers land? 52. What did this attack become known as? 53. What is the significance of the Battle of the Bulge? 54. How did the geography of the Soviet Union aide its people in the battle of Stalingrad? 55. Why was the Battle of Britain important? 56. Which battle marked a turning point for the Allies in North Africa? 57. What were the results of the Siege of Leningrad? List three countries from the Allied Powers. List three countries from the Axis Powers.

EL 5: What is the significance of the Battle of Midway? Explain what the Bataan Death March was. What was a “Kamikaze”? Why was the Battle of the Coral Sea important? What was the name of the strategy in which America moved from island to island to reach Japan? Americans began developing a new weapon to end the war, what was this weapon? What was the name of the American program that created the weapon? What city did the US attack on August 6th, 1945? Which city was attacked on August 9th? What was the main reason that President Truman dropped the bomb on Japan? What happened on August 15, 1945? EL6: What type of system is Capitalism? What type of system is Communism? Give an example of a Communist country (from WWII). Give an example of a Capitalist country. Who was the president of the US after WWII, who was the leader of the Soviet Union? What was the goal of the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam? What kind of ideas did Stalin promise to respect in Eastern Europe What governing body was created after WWII to promote international cooperation and prevent war? What was the name of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began after WWII?\ After WWII, Americans were very concerned about the spread of _ across Europe and Asia.

"What's Hot" - A Current Events Assignment

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Great websites for current events: [|Upfront Magazine] [|Time for Kids Magazine] [|Denver Post] [|Coloradoan] [|MSNBC News] [|Google News] [|National Geographic Kids]