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Name:

Date:
Period:
Learning Essentials: WWII

DUE DATE: ________________________________

Define the following:

Treaty of Versailles

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Nazi

Appeasement

Charles de Gaulle

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor

Hiroshima

Blitzkrieg

Winston Churchill

Genocide

Holocaust

Allied Powers

Axis Powers

“Ten Best Questions”


Completely answer the following questions based on your reading of
Chapter 14.

1. How did dictators undermine the peace in the 1930’s?

2. Why were the western democracies unable to stop aggressive


dictators?

3. How did new technologies affect the fighting in WWII?

4. What goals did the Axis powers pursue in Europe and Asia?

5. Why did Japan attack the United States?

6. What battles were turning points in the European war?

7. What battles were turning points in the Pacific war?

8. How did the Allied forces defeat Germany?

9. Why did the United States use the Atomic Bomb on Japan?

10.What were the human and material costs of WWII?

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