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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

BLOCK EXAM TIPS

Key People:
FDR - United States
Hitler - Germany
Mussolini - Italy
Churchill - Great Britain/England
Stalin - Soviet Union
Tojo - Japan
Zedong - China
Franco - Spain

Chapter 22
Understand the Age of Uncertainty (Post WWI & 1920's Society) surrounding the time period that followed Americans well into the war.

Chapter 23
Understand the Great Depression, contributing factors/causes, Hoover's approach, the Bonus Army, Know how FDR conveyed his message of hope to Americans, why they turned to him and what he did to help (The New Deal & Second New Deal).

Chapter 24 (ALL).
Know the leaders (Stalin, Churchill, Tojo, Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco) & main Generals (Eisenhower, Rommel, MacArthur, Nimitz, & Patton). Understand the lead up to the war... Hitler's March Across Europe, Understand why America stayed neutral for so long, and then, entered the war. (Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor) Know about the War in Europe (Start, Key Battles, & Tide Changes), North Africa, & in the Pacific (Strategies, Fighting Styles, Key Battles, Bataan Death March). Understand the role of minorities in the war and how their experiences differed (Tuskegee Airmen vs. Japanese Internment). Know the Holocaust & Holdomor, who was targeted, what happened, & how ordinary people became perpetrators of violence. Study the death of FDR and the impact it had on the nation, politics, and who became leader. Know the Manhattan Project, Albert Einstein, and the droppings of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

10 Required Questions:
1. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, & Japan.
2. Allied Powers: England, France, & United States.
3. Soviet Union switches sides (Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact).
4. How did poor economic conditions contribute to the rise of the dictators in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union?
5. Appeasement.
6. How did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to the start of WWII?
7. What events led to the War in Europe (what did Germany and Italy do that caused Great Britain and France to declare war)?
8. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor, how did this draw the US into WWII?
9. Why did the United States focus on the European theatre before fully engaging in the Pacific Theatre?
10. What was the manhattan Project and how did it help end WWII?

(CLASS NOTES/POWERPOINTS) Course Documents:
Road to War

War in Europe

War in Pacific

Holocaust
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