UNIT TEST: WORLD WAR II AND THE HOLOCAUST

STUDY GUIDE

OBJECTIVES:
1. Explain how aggression, appeasement and alliances caused WWII.
2. Identify and describe the major turning points in World War II.
a. German Occupation of France (June 22, 1940)
b. Battle of Britain (July-December 1940)
c. Operation Barbarossa (1941-1943)
d. Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
e. D-Day-The Storming of Normandy (June 6, 1944)
f. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
g. V-J Day (August 14, 1945
3. Explain how war ended in Europe and in the Pacific.
4. Explain the impact of advanced technology in World War II.
5. Explain the major effects of World War II including human and material losses.
6. Explain Raul Hilberg’s 6 stages of the Holocaust.
7. Explain the impact of the Holocaust on individuals – bystanders, victims, and
perpetrators.

IDENTIFICATIONS/TERMS:
Fascism Nazi-Soviet Non- Harry Truman
Appeasement Aggression Pact Kamikaze pilots
Munich Conference Operation Barbarossa Island hopping
Adolf Hitler Neutrality Act (1935) Amphibious warfare
Lebensraum Lend-Lease Act (1941) Atomic Bomb
Vichy France Pearl Harbor Hiroshima
Blitzkrieg Franklin Delano Nagasaki
Luftwaffe Roosevelt V-J Day
RAF Mussolini, or Il Duce Rape of Nanjing
Winston Churchill D-Day Six Stages of the
Battle of Britain V-E Day Holocaust