WORLD HISTORY UNIT 8

World War II

GOVERNMENT THAT DOMINATES EVERY ASPECT OF A POPULATION’S LIFE __________________

Complete Totalitarianism

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THIS IS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT USES POLICE TO SPY ON AND INTIMIDATE PEOPLE ___________ __________

Protect and Serve Government interest Police State

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PROMOTING GOVERNMENT AND CONTROLLING ALL MASS MEDIA IS A HOW A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT USES _________________ AND ________________

1. Biased posters and movies2. Editing of documents Propaganda and

Censorhip

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COMMUNISM, FASCISM, AND NAZISM ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF _________________ GOVERNMENTS

Totalitarianism

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Entire

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THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED EDUCATION FROM ______________ TO ______________ IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA

Diapers to Diplomas Elementary to College

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IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA, THERE IS NO _____________ ________________

Isolated Ownership Private Property

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FASCISM STARTED IN ______________

Italy

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A FASCIST STATE FEELS DISDAIN FOR _____________ AND __________________

Paintings and the Educated

Arts and Intellectuals

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WHICH COUNTRY DID GERMANY INVADE THAT STARTED WWII?

Poland

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THIS WAS THE FRENCH LINE OF DEFENSE THAT BRITISH SENT TROOPS BEHIND TO DEFEND AGAINST BLITZKRIEG. ________________ ____________

Attacked the weaknesses Maginot Line

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THE MAJOR MISTAKE THE ALLIES MADE IN PREPARING TO DEFEND AGAINST GERMANY’S ATTACK ON FRANCE WAS THAT THEY MISINTERPRETED WHERE THE ______________ _______________ WOULD TAKE PLACE

Place of Attack Main Invasion

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THIS WAS WHERE THE TRAPPED SOLDIERS WERE SAVED BY THE BRITISH NAVY AND PRIVATE BOATS _________________________

It was a Miracle Dunkirk

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IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, GERMANS STRATEGY WAS TO DESTROY __________ __________ AND THEN ATTACK THE GROUND FORCES

War Planes British Airfields

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THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN IS CONSIDERED A __________ VICTORY

For the Queen! British

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OPERATION ______________ WAS GERMANY’S PLAN TO INVADE THE USSR

Wasn’t a plan to cut their hair

Barbarossa

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RUSSIA HAD PLENTIFUL ________________ THAT GERMANY NEEDED, SO THAT IS WHY HE ATTACKED THEM

Food and Ammo Resources

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THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD WAS ONE OF THE _____________ BATTLES IN HUMAN HISTORY

Most Fatalities Deadliest

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_______________ INSTIGATED CONFLICT IN NORTH AFRICA

Mussolini Italy

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GERMANY ACQUIRED THE _______________________ DURING THE APPEASEMENT

Much of Czechoslovakia Sudentenland

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THIS IS THE NEW TYPE OF WARFARE THAT GERMANS USED AT THE BEGINNING OF WWII __________________

Lightning war Blitzkrieg

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THESE WERE ESTABLISHED TO AID NAZIS IN THE “FINAL SOLUTION” ___________________ ________________

Hard to Focus Concentration Camps

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JEWS, HOMOSEXUALS, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, GYPSIES, ETC. WERE ALL PEOPLE THAT THE NAZIS TARGETED BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE _________________

Not Superior Inferior

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________________ _________________ NEGOTIATED THE MUNICH AGREEMENT

Before Winston Churchill Neville Chamberlain

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_________________ CONTAINED SUDETENLAND

Chex Mix Czechoslovakia

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WHAT WORD BEST DESCRIBES THE HOLOCAUST?

Mass Murder Genocide

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TERM HITLER USED TO DESCRIBE GAINING LAND FOR THE GERMAN POPULATION

Sounds like Webeenstrong Lebensraum

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THE LEADER OF RUSSIA DURING WWII. ________________ ______________

The Great Purge Joseph Stalin

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__________________ ____________ FOUNDED THE BOLSHEVIKS

Not Putin Vladimir Lenin

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11 MILLION PEOPLE TOTAL DIED IN THE ________________

Included the “Final Solution”

Holocaust

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THE _____________ _________ WAS MEANT TO PREVENT HITLER FROM ANY OTHER INVASIONS

Agreement in GermanyMunich Pact

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THE _________________ EMPEROR WAS SEEN AS A GOD

Allied with Germany and Italy

Japanese

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GERMANY, JAPAN, AND ITALY MADE UP THE _________

Where two points cross Axis

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FRANCE WAS SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS AS PART OF THEIR TERMS OF ________________ TO GERMANY

White Flag Surrender

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RADARS, JET ENGINES, AND NUCLEAR POWER ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF _______________ DURING WWII

Creations Inventions

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THE INVASION OF ______________ BROUGHT BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY

The Land of Po Poland

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STALIN, HITLER, AND MUSSOLINI ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF ___________________ LEADERS

Not Democratic Totalitarian

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HITLER BLAMED THE _________ FOR ALL OF GERMANY’S PROBLEMS

Synagogue Jews

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THE NAME OF THE EVENT WHERE GERMANS DESTROYED JEWISH BUSINESSES, HOMES, AND CHURCHES _________________

Night of the Crystal Kristallnacht

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FRANCE, BRITAIN, USA, AND RUSSIA WERE ALL PART OF THE __________ FORCE

Friends Allied

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THIS IS WHERE GERMAN SOLDIERS AND LEADERSHIP WERE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES: _____________________ ______________________

Held in Germany Nuremburg Trials

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DELIBERATE EXTERMINATION OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE IS THE DEFINITION OF ___________________

Final Solution Genocide

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NO OTHER COUNTRIES WANTED TO STOP HITLER AT FIRST BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO _____________ ANOTHER WAR

Evade Avoid

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THE ____________ ___________ WAS WHEN STALIN'S PARANOIA LED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS REAL AND IMAGINED ENEMIES

Not Terrible Peace Great Purge

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THE WORKING CLASS IS WHERE THE _______________ PARTY DREW THEIR SUPPORT FROM

Vladimir Lenin Bolshevik

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THE _______________ ____________ WAS SPARKED BECAUSE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS DID NOT WANT TO FIRE UPON FELLOW RUSSIANS

Month after January February Revolution

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THE SOCIETY OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS WAS THE NAME OF ____________ __________’S NEW GOVERNMENT

Not Putin Vladimir Lenin

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THE _________ ARMY WON THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

Not White Red

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THE __________ ____________ WAS HELD TO DISCUSS POST-WWII REORGANIZATION

The “Big 3” led the discussions

Potsdam Conference

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SHORT ESSAY: ANSWER 2 OF THE 3 SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS (3-5 SENTENCES). MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE AS MANY FACTUAL DETAILS AS POSSIBLE. YOU MAY USE YOUR NOTES AND HANDOUTS

NAME 2 EVENTS THAT LED UP TO WWII STARTING AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY WERE SIGNIFICANT.

DESCRIBE THE TACTICS OF THE GERMAN ARMIES AT THE BEGINNING OF WWII. BE SPECIFIC.

COMPARE HITLER’S AND STALIN’S RULING STYLES.

ESSAY: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS (2-4). MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE AS MANY FACTUAL DETAILS AS POSSIBLE. YOU MAY USE YOUR NOTES AND HANDOUTS.

HOW AND WHY WAS GERMANY GIVEN AUSTRIA AND THE SUDETENLAND? WAS THERE ANY JUSTIFICATION FOR BRITAIN AND FRANCE’S POLICY OF APPEASEMENT? DESCRIBE THE HOLOCAUST AND HOW IT LED TO THE “FINAL SOLUTION”.  HOW DID THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS BEGIN? HOW DID THESE EVENTS LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET UNION?