CHAPTER 24 STUDY GUIDE

Mrs. Johnson American Studies IIC

WORLD WAR LOOMS

ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND

   

Section One

    1. Describe the governments and totalitarian rulers who came to power in

         A. Italy-

          B. Germany -

          C. Japan -                                                                                                              

    2.    How did Joseph Stalin transform the Soviet Union?

    3.  How did the failures of the League of Nations add to Mussolini’s and Hitler’s bold aggression?

    4.  How did Germany’s and Italy’s involvement  affect the outcome of the Spanish Civil War?

 

Section Two

    5.  What was the Anschluss?

    6. Discuss the policy of appeasement.  Why did Chamberlain choose that course of action?  What 

        was the outcome?

    7.  Describe the blitzkrieg. Why was it so effective?

    8.  What terms of surrender did Hitler demand of the French after the fall of France in 1940?  

         What was General Charles DeGaulle’s reaction?

    9.  List the key areas annexed or attacked by Germany from 1938 through 1941 in chronological

         order.

    10.   What actions did America take during this period ?

 

  Section Three

    11.   What  steps did Hitler and the Naziis take to limit the freedoms of the Jews during the 1930s?

    12.    Why did the passengers of the St. Louis have to return to Europe?

     13.  Explain the Final Solution.

     14.   What other groups of people were targeted by Hitler in his plan for a Master Race?

     15.  What did Elie Wiesel write of in his book, Night?

 

Section Four

     16.   Describe the response of the United States to the outbreak of war in Europe.

     17.   In what ways did America and Roosevelt help the Allies without declaring war?

     18.   What were the key arguments for America to go to war?

     19.   What were the key reasons people said we should stay out of the war?

     20.   Discuss the Atlantic Charter.

      21. How was Hideki Tojo described?

      22. Describe the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

      23.  What was America’s response?

 

 

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