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World War II Reading/Written Work Assignment Directions: Using Creating America, write answers the following questions on your notebook paper.Chapter 27.1 (pages 757-762)What allowed dictators to seize control of Italy, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union in mid-1930?What made Italy and Japan feel betrayed by European nations after WWI?Who were the leaders of Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. during WWII?What is fascism?What country did Italy attack in 1935?What alliance did Italy and Germany form in 1936? What was it later called?What does the term appeasement mean? How was it used in trying to avoid war?What country did Germany invade in 1939, which made France and Great Britain declare war?What does the term blitzkrieg mean? How was it used?In what year did France surrender to Germany?Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?Why did Hitler declare war on the Soviet Union?What fatal mistake did Hitler make in the war against the Soviet Union?What was the Lend-Lease Act?Why did the Japanese decide to attack Pearl Harbor?On what date did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?Chapter 27.2 (pages 763-769)How did the United States build an army for the war?Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?Who led American forces in northern Africa in WWII?In what city did the Soviets halt and eventually defeat the invading Germans?On June 6, 1944 American, Great Britain, and Canadian troops attacked the beaches of Normandy. This historic event has become known as what?Who was the most decorated US soldier of WWII? How did he win the Medal of Honor?What happened at the battle of the Bulge?What was the Yalta Conference? Who was in attendance at the conference?What happened to Hitler in 1945?What is V- E Day?What was the Holocaust?What does anti-Semitism mean?What was “The Final Solution?”Where was the largest concentration camp located?Creating America Chapter 27 (Section 1-2) Answer KeySection 1Economic and political factors from WWI and the Treaty of VersaillesNeither gained the land they felt they deserved from WWI and the Treaty of VersaillesMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and FDRExtreme form of patriotism and nationalism that was linked to racismEthiopiaRome-Berlin Axis: Axis powersMeeting demands to avoid war; France and Great Britain felt Germany was restoring land that was already theirs and thus that would be the end of German expansionPoland“Lightning War”; A German tactic of speed and surprise by tanks, planes, and troops to defeat an enemy1940Winston ChurchillFear of Soviet ambitions and oilDid not concentrate forces on Moscow, instead split army to North and South to attack LeningradUnited States plan to supply Allied forces with raw materials, equipment, and weapons to help in the war effort.United States Navy stood in Japans way of taking land in Asia for oil and resourcesDecember 7, 1941Section 2The 99th Fighter Squadron made up of all African-American pilotsDwight D. EisenhowerStalingradD-DayAudie Murphy; The 20 year old Murphy climbed on a burning tank destroyer and used its machine gun to kill about 50 enemy troops in France.Germany’s final assault on Allied Forces in Belgium and Luxembourg. The Germans initially knocked the Allied forces back, but they regrouped and defeated the Germans.Churchill, Stalin, and FDR discussed postwar agendas and the type of governments that should be set up in eastern Europe following the war.He committed suicide in a bunkerVictory in Europe (May 8, 1945)A set of concentration camps where Germans mass murdered Jews and other ethnic groups they deemed inferior to their racePrejudice against JewsTo murder every Jew under German ruleAuschwitz, Poland ................
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