World War 2 Review- World History Knowledge

Appeasement

Auschwitz in Operation

Nazis issue the Final Solution declaration

Munich Agreement

Austria joins together with Germany in Anschluss

Great Depression

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Joseph Stalin becomes leader of Russia

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Mussolini becomes leader of Italy

German invasion of Poland

Blitzkrieg

Battle of Britain

USSR invades Poland

Germany invades USSR

D-Day

VE Day

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Manhattan Project

African Theatre

Jews stripped of civil rights

Japan invades China

“Rape of Nanking”

Kristallnacht

USSR and Germany: Non-Aggression Pact

Vichy France

Pearl Harbor

Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle of Stalingrad

Italy Surrenders

Liberation of Dachau

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Midway

Desert Fox

The Nuremburg Trials

“Official” End of War

World War 2 Review – Critical Thinking 1) What was the main cause of WW2? Why?

2) Was WW2 inevitable given the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles? Why?

3) How much did totalitarian leaders contribute to the start of WW2? Why?

4) How was the war different for civilians depending on where they lived?

5) Compare the war in Europe with the war in the Pacific. What was similar and what was different?

6) Why did Hitler’s tactic of blitzkrieg work so well at the start of the war?

7) Why did Hitler’s blitzkrieg work badly in Operation Barbarossa?

8) How did Hitler’s tactics in Leningrad differ from what he did in Stalingrad?

9) Why wouldn’t Stalin let his civilians leave Stalingrad?

10) Why was the Battle of Stalingrad an important battle in WW2?

11) Why did all countries in WW2 target civilians in their bombing raids?

12) Is it okay to target civilians in a time of war? Why?

13) Do you think that we would have dropped an atomic bomb on Germany if it had been developed in time? Why?

14) Why did the US drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

15) Was it okay that we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why?

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