Modern World History
Chapter 16 Study Guide
16.1 – Hitler’s Lightning War
Polish Corridor
nonaggression pact
September 1, 1939
blitzkrieg
Maginot Line
sitzkrieg
the Ardennes
Dunkirk
Philippe Petain
Vichy
Charles de Gaulle
Free French
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Luftwaffe
Battle of Britain
Afrika Korps
Erwin Rommel
Operation Barbarossa
scorched earth policy
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Moscow
Neutrality Act
Cash-and-Carry
Lend-Lease Act
Franklin
Atlantic Charter
Write out each of the following questions and answer each with well-developed response. Be sure to include the vocab from the section.
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Explain what each leader would gain from the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
Explain how Hitler was able to conquer Poland.
Explain how Hitler planned to conquer France.
Explain what happened on the beaches of Dunkirk.
Describe the Battle of Britain and explain how it altered warfare history.
Describe the fighting at Tobruk and its outcome.
Describe the Nazis’ war effort against the USSR and explain why it failed.
** Create a timeline of the events referred to in this section from 1939 to 1941 that follow the early years of WWII.
16.2 – Japan’s Pacific Campaign
Isoroku Yamamoto
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
“A date which will live in
infamy”
Bataan Death March
Lt. Colonel Doolittle
What happened?
Battle of Coral Sea
Chester Nimitz
Battle of Midway
Douglas MacArthur
“island-hop”
Battle of Guadalcanal
What is the significance? (Why is it important?
1. Bombing of Pearl Harbor
2. Fall of Southeast Asian
colonies
3. Doolittle’s raid on Japan
4. Battle of the Coral Sea
5. Battle of Midway
6. Battle of Guadalcanal
** Create a timeline of the events referred to in this section from 1940 to 1942 that follow the early years of WWII.
16.3 – The Holocaust
Aryans
“master race”
Holocaust
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
ghettos
WHO?
Who were the victims of the Holocaust?
Who were members of the “master race”?
WHAT?
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
What happened on the night of November
9, 1938?
What was Hitler’s final solution?
WHERE?
Where did German Jews try to migrate to
find safety from Nazi terror?
Where were Jews forced to live in Germancontrolled cities?
Where were the concentration camps?
WHY?
Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other
“subhumans” had to be exterminated?
Why did the Germans build extermination
camps?
WHEN?
When did the final stage of the Final
Solution begin?
HOW?
How did non-Jewish people try to save
Jews from the horrors of Nazism?
How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
Final Solution
genocide
concentration camps
Auschwitz
cyanide gas
crematoriums
16.4 – The Allied Victory
Bernard Montgomery
El Alamein
Operation Torch
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle of Stalingrad
Friedrich Paulus
Invasion of Italy
Japanese internment
D-Day
Normandy
Calais
Saint-Lo
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Battle of Leyte Gulf
kamikazes
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Harry S Truman
A-bomb
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
USS Missouri
Douglas MacArthur
demilitarization
Hideki Tojo
democratization
Diet
Article 9
How did each of the following contribute the Allied victory in WWII?
1. Battle of El Alamein
2. Operation Torch
3. Battle of Stalingrad
4. Invasion of Italy
5. Propaganda campaigns in USA
6. D-Day Invasion
7. Battle of the Bulge
8. Battle of Leyte Gulf
9. Battle of Okinawa
10. Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
** Create a timeline of the events referred to in this section.
16.5 – Europe and Japan in Ruins
Nuremberg Trials
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Goring
Hans Frank
Dachau
After reading 16.5, fill out the chart by writing notes to describe conditions in postwar Europe and Japan.
Postwar Europe
1. Note three ways war affected the land and
people of Europe.
2. Note three political problems postwar
governments faced.
3. Note one way the Allies dealt with the
Holocaust.
Postwar Japan
4. Note two effects of Allied bombing raids on
Japan.
5. Note three ways U.S. occupation changed
Japan.
6. Note three provisions in Japan’s constitution.
Postwar Changes
7. Explain the objectives of the Nuremberg Trials.
8. Explain the objectives of the demilitarization of
Japan.
** Create a timeline of the events referred to in this section.