ANSWERS: Study Guide Questions : Homework Activity 1
The Holocaust
1.
These laws robbed Jews of their citizenship and banned marriages between Jews and Germans.
2.
Hitler planned to eliminate all of the Jews and other minorities. They would be sent to concentration camps and systematically put to death. This practice is called genocide because he killed people from the same racial, political, or cultural group.
3.
Slavs, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war- any minority that did not qualify to be classified as
“undesirable”
4.
It nearly destroyed the Jewish culture because so many were killed.
5.
To put the Nazis on trial for gross violations of human rights. They would be tried before the world. 19 of 24 defendants were found guilty. 12 received the death penalty and those remaining went to prison.
World War II
1.
Mussolini was bitter about Italy not getting more land after the Allied Victory in WWI. This was a step toward fulfilling his promise to build an Italian Empire. When the League of Nations lacked an army to stop him, he began to seize other lands in North Africa.
2.
Great Britain pressured France into following a Policy of Appeasement-giving in to “reasonable demands” of an unhappy nation to avoid war.
3.
United States >Franklin Roosevelt> Allied Power
Great Britain >Winston Churchill> Allied Power
France >Charles de Gaulle> Allied Power
Soviet Union >Joseph Stalin> Allied Power
Nationalist China >Chaing Kai-shek> Allied Power
Italy >Benito Mussolini> Axix Power
Germany > Hitler >Axis Power
Japan >Hirohito(No Power)Tojo(military leader)> Axis Power
4.
A. United States entered the war
B. Hitler was unsuccessful in defeating Britain, so he had to plan another war strategy.
C. Soviet Union handed Germany its first major defeat
D. Allied forces, under direction on General Eisenhower, started one of the greatest naval invasions in history. After landing on French beaches, from Normandy the Allies spread throughout Europe and eventually invaded Germany. Hitler committed suicide and the German commanders surrendered.

E. Forced Japan to surrender and WWII ended with an Allied victory.
5. More civilians than soldiers died in WWII. Two out of every three European Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. The United States lost almost 300,000 soldiers. The Soviet Union lost the most at almost 7,500,000 battle deaths.
Essential Standards Questions for Reinforcement, Practice, and Review. Activity 3
Multiple Choice
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13.
B
C
2. G 3. A 4. G 5. C 6. I 7. B 8. I 9. C 10.G 11.B 12.G
14. F 15. C