WWII study guide

TEST: World War II & Its Aftermath REVIEW
(1931 – 1955)

Part I. Aggression, Appeasement, and War

Learning Target(s)
I will be able to identify and describe key events in Europe from 1935-1939 and explain how they led to WW II by creating a graphic organize entitled “1930s: On the Road to War.”

Anschluss
Appeasement
Pacifism sanctions Actions of the League of Nations
Position of the US as WWII began
Event that finally caused the war to begin.

Part II. The Global Conflict: Axis Advances.

Learning Target(s)
I will be able to use my book to identify key Axis advances as WW II breaks out and progresses: 1939-1942 by completing a crossword puzzle entitled “The Global Conflict: Axis Advances.
I will be able to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor along with America’s response by watching real 12/7/41 footage and answering questions related to that day.
I will be able to compare and contrast depictions of Pearl Harbor day, will be able to roleplay eye-witness experiences and or reflections of the era.
I will be able to identify and describe key events from the 1930s to Pearl Harbor by answering multiple choice and matching questions.

Atlantic Charter
Blitzkrieg
Lend-Lease Act
Operation Barbarossa
Pearl Harbor.
Sonar
Radar
Radioactivity
the siege of Leningrad. the London Blitz. the miracle of Dunkirk

Part III & IV. The Global Conflict: Allied Successes and Towards War

Learning Target(s)
I will be able to identify and describe ways in which the Allies stopped Axis advances in WW II by reading secondary source material (textbook).
I can identify and describe key Allied victories in 1945 and explain how WW II ended by reading secondary source material.
I can describe the impact of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by viewing photographs and headline news from August 1945

Battle of Stalingrad
El Alamein
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Holocaust.
concentration camps.
internment