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WWII

Between the Wars (1919-1939)Between the Wars (1919-1939)

Nationalist Leader

Country Accomplishment

Gandhi

Sun Yixian

Mustafa Kamal

AnswersAnswersNationalist Leader Country Accomplishment

Gandhi India Lead India to limited self rule by using campaigns of civil disobedience

Sun Yixian China Revolutionary alliance overthrew last emperor

Mustafa Kamal Turkey “Ataturk” who transformed Republic of Turkey by reforming religion & government policies.

Between the Wars (1919-1939)Between the Wars (1919-1939)Great Depression

Causes Effect

Between the Wars (1919-1939)Between the Wars (1919-1939)Great Depression

Causes Effect

Stock Market Crash 1929 -Prices Increased-Wages Decreased-Unemployment Increased-Banks & Businesses Failed

Between the Wars (1919-1939)Between the Wars (1919-1939)1. Which nation? Richest nation after WWI,

made lots of consumer goods in the 1920s, but Great Depression in 1930s

2. Which nation? Humiliated after WWI, severely punished in Versailles Treaty

3. Which nation? Destroyed by WWI, quit the war early, became the first communist nation during WWI

Answers Answers 1. United States

2. Germany

3. Soviet Union (Russia)

Rise of Dictators Rise of Dictators 1. A type of gov’t ruled by a dictator who

controls all aspects of society, limits personal freedoms, promotes nationalism, & uses secret police

2. A political system in which the gov’t controls all land, factories, farms in order to create an equal society

3. A political system in which gov’t is controlled by a dictator, leaders promote extreme nationalism, but people can keep property & businesses

Rise of Dictators Rise of Dictators 1. Totalitarian government

2. Communism

3. Fascism

Dictators Dictators 1. Name the dictator: Ruled the Soviet

Union, created Five Year Plans, used Great Purge to eliminate rivals

2. Name the dictator: Led the Nazis, wrote Mein Kampf, was chancellor of Germany

3. Name the dictator: created Fascist Party, formed Blackshirts, led march on Rome

4. Name the dictator: Was military dictator of Japan, aggressively expanded in Asia

DictatorsDictators1. Joseph Stalin

2. Adolf Hitler

3. Benito Mussolini

4. Hideki Tojo

Causes of World War IICauses of World War II1. Name 1 example of each nation’s

aggressive expansion before WWII: Japan, Italy, Germany

2. What policy did Britain and France use against Germany to avoid another war?

3. Why was the Munich Conference in 1939 important?

4. Which two nations signed a nonaggression pact in 1939?

5. What event started World War II?

Causes of World War IICauses of World War II1. Japan Manchuria (1931), China (1937)

Italy Ethiopia (1935), Albania (1939)Germany Austria (1938), Sudetenland (1939), Czechoslovakia (1939), Poland (1939)

2. Appeasement 3. Hitler promised to never again invade in

Europe if he could keep the Sudetenland but then took Czechoslovakia

4. Germany and the Soviet Union 5. German invasion of Poland in Sept 1939

World War II: 1939-1942World War II: 1939-19421. German military strategy of using air

force and tanks that allowed the Nazis to quickly conquer most of Europe

2. Japanese military strategy of using suicide pilots to attack American ships

3. What event brought the USA into WWII?

4. The prime minister who vowed to “never surrender” during the Battle of Britain

World War II: 1939-1942World War II: 1939-19421. Blitzkrieg

2. Kamikaze

3. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

4. Winston Churchill

Turning Points of World War IITurning Points of World War II1. Which battle allowed the Allies to protect

the Suez Canal, Middle East oil, & remove the Axis Powers from Africa?

2. In which battle did the Soviet army defeated Germany and began pushing towards Germany from the East?

3. What was Pearl Harbor and its impact? 4. What strategy did the Allies use to retake

control of the Pacific? 5. Which battle allowed the Allies to open a

western front by invading France?

Turning Points of World War IITurning Points of World War II1. Battle of El Alamein

2. Battle of Stalingrad

3. Japan’s surprise attack on the United States; event brought the US into WWII (US was isolated prior to)

4. Island hopping

5. D-Day (Operation Overlord; Normandy Invasion)

Holocaust Holocaust 1. Name 2 topics Hitler discussed in his

book Mein Kampf 2. How did the Nuremburg Laws of 1935

impact German Jews?3. What was the name of the attack on

Jewish synagogues & businesses in 1938? 4. What did Hitler and the Nazis called their

plan to eliminate non-Aryans, especially European Jews?

5. What does the term “genocide” mean?

Holocaust Holocaust 1. Revenge for humiliation caused by

Versailles Treaty, Aryans are superior race, need to eliminate non-Aryans, desire for “lebensraum” for Aryans

2. Took away citizenship, outlawed marriages between Jews & Aryans, required Jews to wear the yellow star

3. Kristallnacht 4. Final Solution5. Mass killing of a group of people

Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, PotsdamConferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam1. Which nations made up the “big three”?2. In which conference in 1943 did the Allies

agree to open a western front by invading Nazi-occupied France?

3. In which conference in July 1945 did the USA learn that the atomic bomb was ready and then warned Japan to surrender?

4. In which conference in Feb 1945 did the Allies agree to form a United Nations, occupy Germany, allow self-determination in Europe?

Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, PotsdamConferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam1. United States, Britain, Soviet Union 2. Tehran Conference 3. Potsdam Conference 4. Yalta Conference

End of World War II End of World War II

1. What was the name for the secret project to build an atomic bomb in the U.S.?

2. What event ended World War II? 3. Which two nations were considered

“superpowers” when WWII ended? 4. What is “decolonization”?5. What new international organization was

formed to keep peace after WWII?

End of World War II End of World War II 1. Manhattan Project

2. Surrender of Japan after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

3. United States and the Soviet Union

4. Independence of nations that were once colonized by imperialists

5. United Nations