How did World War I and the Versailles Treaty sow the seeds of
World War II?
What were Stalin's goals? What steps did he take to achieve
them?
List the characteristics of a totalitarian state.
What were the basic beliefs of fascism? of Nazism?
How did fascism differ from communism?
Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria in 1931?
Why were Americans supporting a neutral position in the 1930s
regarding the growing political and military tensions in Europe?
How did some Americans become involved in the fight against
totalitarianism in the 1930s?
Why did FDR take a strong stand against isolationism in the late
1930s?
*
Versailles Treaty [1919]
* Der
Führer
*
totalitarianism
* Mein
Kampf
* Joseph
Stalin
* Aryan
race
*
Five-Year Plans
* Third
Reich
* Great
Purges
*
Rome-Berlin Axis
*
fascism
* Nye
Committee
* Benito
Mussolini
*
Neutrality Acts [1935, 1937]
* Il
Duce
*
Spanish Civil War [1936-1939]
* Black
Shirts
*
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
* Nazism
*
Francisco Franco
* Adolph
Hitler
*
Manchukuo
Textbook --> pp. 708 - 713.
What was lebensraum? What moves did Hitler make to
support this Germany policy?
Why did Neville Chamberlain believe that he had accomplished
"Peace in our times" after he returned from Munich in
1938? Why was he wrong in this assessment?
Why did Stalin and Hitler become allies in the summer of 1939?
How was blitzkrieg an effective military weapon for the
Germans?
Why was the period between the winter of 1939 and the spring of
1940 called the "Phony War?"
How did the situtations of France and Britain differ by the fall
of 1940?
Why did Prime Minister Churchill say of the RAF?: Never
have so many owed so much to so few?
* Anschluss
* blitzkrieg
*
Sudetenland
* Phony
War
* lebensraum
*
Maginot Line
*
Neville Chamberlain
* Vichy
France
*
Winston Churchill
*
Marshall Petain
*
appeasement
*
Charles DeGaulle
* Munich
Pact [1938]
* Battle
of Britain
*
Non-Aggression Pact [1939]
* Luftwaffe
* R.
A. F.
Textbook --> pp. 714 - 718.
What were the basic principles of Hitler's racial theories?
What groups did the Nazis feel were unfit to belong to the Aryan
"master race?"
Why were Jews scapegoated?
What problems did German Jews face in Nazi Germany in the late
1930s?
What were the goals of the Nazis' "Final Solution?"
Why was the Nazi program of systematic genocide so brutally
effective?
How did the Europeans show their resistance to the Nazi
persecution of the Jews?
* Holocaust
* concentration camp
* Schutzstaffel [SS]
* Auschwitz
* Kristallnacht
* Arbeit Macht Frei!
* genocide
* Elie Wiesel
* scapegoat
* "Final Solution"
* Untermenschen
Textbook --> pp. 719 - 725.
Why did some Americans object to President Roosevelt's
"cash-and-carry" policy?
What was the shape of our military readiness at the outbreak of
war in Europe at the end of 1939?
How did the Lend-Lease program work?
Create a CHART and list the arguments taken by the isolationists
and the interventionists regarding America's responsibilities to the
rest of the world at the outbreak of war in late 1939.
Why was the Atlantic Charter important?
How did the U. S. enter into an undeclared shooting war with
Germany in the fall of 1941?
Why was oil a major source of conflict between the US and Japan in
the early 1940s? What other areas of disagreement existed
between the two nations in the fall of 1941?
What problems did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor solve for
FDR? What new problems did this event create?
