1. Unit 7 Study Guide Answers
WWII

2. Between the Wars (1919-1939) Gandhi Sun Yixian Mustafa Kamal
Nationalist Leader
Country
Accomplishment
Gandhi
Sun Yixian
Mustafa Kamal

3. Answers Gandhi India Sun Yixian China Mustafa Kamal Turkey
Nationalist Leader
Country
Accomplishment
Gandhi
India
Lead India to limited self rule by using campaigns of civil disobedience
Sun Yixian
China
Revolutionary alliance overthrew last emperor
Mustafa Kamal
Turkey
“Ataturk” who transformed Republic of Turkey by reforming religion & government policies.

4. Between the Wars ( )
Great Depression
Causes
Effect

5. Between the Wars (1919-1939) Great Depression Causes Effect
Stock Market Crash 1929
-Prices Increased
-Wages Decreased
-Unemployment Increased
-Banks & Businesses Failed

6. Between the Wars ( )
Which nation? Richest nation after WWI, made lots of consumer goods in the 1920s, but Great Depression in 1930s
Which nation? Humiliated after WWI, severely punished in Versailles Treaty
Which nation? Destroyed by WWI, quit the war early, became the first communist nation during WWI

7. Answers
United States
Germany
Soviet Union (Russia)

8. Rise of Dictators
A type of gov’t ruled by a dictator who controls all aspects of society, limits personal freedoms, promotes nationalism, & uses secret police
A political system in which the gov’t controls all land, factories, farms in order to create an equal society
A political system in which gov’t is controlled by a dictator, leaders promote extreme nationalism, but people can keep property & businesses

9. Rise of Dictators
Totalitarian government
Communism
Fascism

10. Dictators
Name the dictator: Ruled the Soviet Union, created Five Year Plans, used Great Purge to eliminate rivals
Name the dictator: Led the Nazis, wrote Mein Kampf, was chancellor of Germany
Name the dictator: created Fascist Party, formed Blackshirts, led march on Rome
Name the dictator: Was military dictator of Japan, aggressively expanded in Asia

11. Dictators
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo

12. Causes of World War II
Name 1 example of each nation’s aggressive expansion before WWII: Japan, Italy, Germany
What policy did Britain and France use against Germany to avoid another war?
Why was the Munich Conference in important?
Which two nations signed a nonaggression pact in 1939?
What event started World War II?
Civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.

13. Causes of World War II
Japan  Manchuria (1931), China (1937) Italy  Ethiopia (1935), Albania (1939) Germany  Austria (1938), Sudetenland (1939), Czechoslovakia (1939), Poland (1939)
Appeasement
Hitler promised to never again invade in Europe if he could keep the Sudetenland but then took Czechoslovakia
Germany and the Soviet Union
German invasion of Poland in Sept 1939

14. World War II:
German military strategy of using air force and tanks that allowed the Nazis to quickly conquer most of Europe
Japanese military strategy of using suicide pilots to attack American ships
What event brought the USA into WWII?
The prime minister who vowed to “never surrender” during the Battle of Britain

15. World War II: 1939-1942 Blitzkrieg Kamikaze
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Winston Churchill

16. Turning Points of World War II
Which battle allowed the Allies to protect the Suez Canal, Middle East oil, & remove the Axis Powers from Africa?
In which battle did the Soviet army defeated Germany and began pushing towards Germany from the East?
What was Pearl Harbor and its impact?
What strategy did the Allies use to retake control of the Pacific?
Which battle allowed the Allies to open a western front by invading France?

17. Turning Points of World War II
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Stalingrad
Japan’s surprise attack on the United States; event brought the US into WWII (US was isolated prior to)
Island hopping
D-Day (Operation Overlord; Normandy Invasion)

18. Holocaust Name 2 topics Hitler discussed in his book Mein Kampf
How did the Nuremburg Laws of 1935 impact German Jews?
What was the name of the attack on Jewish synagogues & businesses in 1938?
What did Hitler and the Nazis called their plan to eliminate non-Aryans, especially European Jews?
What does the term “genocide” mean?

19. Holocaust
Revenge for humiliation caused by Versailles Treaty, Aryans are superior race, need to eliminate non-Aryans, desire for “lebensraum” for Aryans
Took away citizenship, outlawed marriages between Jews & Aryans, required Jews to wear the yellow star
Kristallnacht
Final Solution
Mass killing of a group of people

20. Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
Which nations made up the “big three”?
In which conference in 1943 did the Allies agree to open a western front by invading Nazi-occupied France?
In which conference in July 1945 did the USA learn that the atomic bomb was ready and then warned Japan to surrender?
In which conference in Feb 1945 did the Allies agree to form a United Nations, occupy Germany, allow self-determination in Europe?

21. Conferences: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
United States, Britain, Soviet Union
Tehran Conference
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference

22. End of World War II
What was the name for the secret project to build an atomic bomb in the U.S.?
What event ended World War II?
Which two nations were considered “superpowers” when WWII ended?
What is “decolonization”?
What new international organization was formed to keep peace after WWII?

23. End of World War II Manhattan Project
Surrender of Japan after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States and the Soviet Union
Independence of nations that were once colonized by imperialists
United Nations