Directions. As you read the assigned sections from Chapter 18 complete the following check-up questions.
Aggression, Appeasement, and War pp. 468-472
Dictators Challenge World Peace
1. Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931? ______
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2. What aggressive expansionist actions did Italy take in the 1930s? ______
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3. What action did Germany take in the Rhineland in 1936? ______
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4. What was the policy of appeasement? ______
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5. List three reasons why the western democracies followed a policy of appeasement with Germany? ______
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The Spanish Civil War
1. Describe the two parties in the Spanish Civil War and their supporters. ______
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2. How was the Spanish Civil War a “dress rehearsal” for World War II? ______
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3. Who won the Spanish Civil War? ______
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4. In what ways was Franco's government like those of Hitler and Mussolini? ______
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German Aggression Continues
1. Describe Hitler’s steps to gain “living space” in the following.
(a) Anschluss ______
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(b) the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia ______
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2. How did British and French leaders appease Hitler at the Munich Conference? ____
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3. What promise did Hitler make at the conference? ______
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Europe Plunges Toward War
1. Describe the terms of Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939? ______
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2. What action of Hitler’s caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany and begin World War II? ______
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The Global Conflict: Axis Advances pp. 473-478
Early Axis Gains
1. What was the strategy of “blitzkrieg”? ______
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2. What nations fell to Hitler after the "phony war"? ______
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The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
1. What was Hitler's goal in the Battle of Britain? ______
______2. What was the "blitz"? ______
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Operation Barbarossa
1. What were Hitler’s goals in invading the Soviet Union? ______
2. What stopped the German advance into Russian territory? ______
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American Involvement Grows
1. How did the Lend-Lease Act help the Allies against the Axis? ______
______2. What did FDR mean when he referred to the United States as the "arsenal for democracy" ______
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3. What pledges did Roosevelt and Churchill make in the Atlantic Charter? ______
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Japan Attacks
1. When World War II broke out what goals did Japan pursue in Asia? ______
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2. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? ______
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3. What was America’s response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? ______
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The Global Conflict: Allied Successes pp. 479-484
Occupied Lands
1. How did the Nazis use occupied lands? ______
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2. What was the “final solution”? How was it carried out? ______
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3. What was the Holocaust? ______
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4. What was the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”? ______
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The Allied War Effort
1. How did democratic governments prepare their nations for the war effort? ______
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2. How were the right of some citizens restricted? ______
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3. How did women help the war effort? ______
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Turning Points
1. Why was El Alamein an important victory for the Allies? ______
______2. How did the invasion of Italy weaken Hitler? ______
The Red Army Resists
1. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad considered the turning point on the Eastern Front?
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Invasion of France
1. When and where did the Allied D-Day invasion occur? ______
2. Why was D-Day an important step in the war in Europe? ______
Toward Victory pp. 485-488
War in the Pacific
1. Why were the battles of Coral Sea and Midway Island important for the Allies? ____
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2. What was the purpose of the “island hopping” campaign in the Pacific? ______
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The Nazi Defeated
1. Why was the Battle of the Bulge important in the final defeat of the Nazis? ______
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2. How did the Allies use their superior air power to hurt the German war effort? ______
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3. What was V-E Day? ______
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Defeat of Japan
1. What were kamikaze missions? ______
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2. What were the effects of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? ______
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3. For what reasons did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb? ______
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4. What were the results of using this weapon on Japan? ______
Looking Ahead
1. What steps did the Allies take in Japan and Germany after the surrender? ______
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