WORLD HISTORY UNIT # 23 Mr.

Torrance
PREP WORLD WAR II

HW 23 A: Read pp. 464 - 465

IDENTIFICATIONS:
1. A Weak League of Nations and French Demands
2. Inflation in Germany and the Dawes Plan

HW 23 B: Read pp. 462, 466 - 467

IDENTIFICATIONS:
3. The Great Depression (Describe the Causes and the Suffering)
4. Responses to the Depression

HW 23 C: Read pp. 465 – 466, 468

IDENTIFICATIONS:
5. Treaty of Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand Pact
6. The Weimar Republic

HW 23 D: Read pp. 471 – 473

***WRITE A DOUBLE ID:*** (200 to 400 words)
7. Benito Mussolini and Fascism
(Include: Totalitarian State, Black Shirts, OVRA, Propaganda,
and the Catholic Church)

HW 23 E: Read pp. 479 – 482, 534

***WRITE A DOUBLE ID:*** (200 to 400 words)
8. Adolf Hitler and Nazism
(Include: Mein Kampf, Reichstag, Enabling Act, Concentration Camps,
Aryan, Heinrich Himmler, and Hitler’s Vision)

HW 23 F: Read pp. 511 – 513, 539 - 540

***WRITE A DOUBLE ID:*** (200 to 400 words)
9. The Rise of Militarist Japan
(Include: Zaibatsu Economy, Militant Nationalists, Manchuria, Hideki Tojo,
Hirohito, Manchukuo, a New Order and Sanctions)

HW 23 G: Read pp. 477, 488 - 489

IDENTIFICATIONS:
10. Spain’s Civil War (Include: Francisco Franco and Guernica)
11. Abstract Art: Surrealism and Salvador Dali
HW 23 H: Read pp. 536 - 538
IDENTIFICATIONS:
12. First Steps of Hitler and Appeasement
13. Austria, the Sudetenland (Include the Munich Conference) and the Nazi-Soviet Pact

HW 23 I: Read pp. 542 - 543

IDENTIFICATIONS:
14. Blitzkrieg and Hitler’s Early Victories
(Include a list of nations Germany conquered, the Maginot Line and Dunkirk)
15. The Battle of Britain

HW 23 J: Read pp. 544 – 545; and use the Internet for Pearl Harbor (Wikipedia)
IDENTIFICATIONS:
16. Japan at War (Include: a list of what Japan attacked and the reaction of the U.S.)
17. Attack on Pearl Harbor ***Use Wikipedia on the Internet – first 7 paragraphs***
(Describe WHY Japan attacked Pearl Harbor; Describe the forces on each side,
including the numbers of airplanes and ships, numbers destroyed or damaged,
numbers of people killed or wounded on each side; and the reaction of the U.S.)

HW 23 K: Read pp. 547 – 548; but mainly use the Internet (Wikipedia)
IDENTIFICATIONS:
19. Battle of Coral Sea (Use Internet – first five paragraphs)
20. Battle of Midway (Use Internet – first four paragraphs)

HW 23 L: Read pp. 543 – 544, 547

IDENTIFICATION:
18. Hitler’s Attack on the Soviet Union
(Include: problems in the Balkans, the three groups of German armies in Russia,
Winter, the Caucasus and results)

HW 23 M: Use the Internet (Wikipedia)

IDENTIFICATION:
21. Battle of Stalingrad (Use Internet – first three paragraphs)

HW 23 N: Read pp. 546 – 547; 562 – 563

IDENTIFICATION:
22. The European Front (Include: North Africa, “Desert Fox” and El Alamein)
23. The Bombing of Cities (Include: Britain, Germany, Dresden, and Japan)

HW 23 O: Read pp. 548 – 550; and use the Internet (Wikipedia)

IDENTIFICATIONS:
24. The European Theater (Include: Mussolini, Italy, Normandy breakout and Paris)
25. Normandy Landings (Use Internet – first three big paragraphs)
HW 23 P: Read pp. 549 – 550; 559
IDENTIFICATIONS:
26. Soviets (Include: Kursk, Soviet advances, Hitler and Partisans)
27. The Soviet Union (Include: Leningrad, Stalin, Mobilization and Women)

HW 23 Q: Read pp. 550; 556 – 557; 563; and Use the Internet (Wikipedia)
IDENTIFICATIONS:
28. The Asian Theater
(Include: Harry S. Truman, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
29. Nanking Massacre or the “Rape of Nanking”
(***Use the Internet – first four big paragraphs***)

HW 23 R: Read pp. 552 - 556

DEFINITIONS: ***Write 50 to 100 words for each Definition***
30. Heinrich Himmler and the SS
31. Reinhard Heydrich and the Final Solution (Include: Genocide and Einsatzgruppen)
32. Death Camps
33. Death Toll

HW 23 S: Read pp. 559 – 561

IDENTIFICATIONS: ***100 to 200 words each***
34. Mobilization and the Soviet Union (Include: War materials and Russian Women)
35. The United States (Include: African Americans, Japanese Americans and Women)

HW 23 T: Read p. 561
IDENTIFICATIONS: ***100 to 200 words each***
36. Germany (Include: The German Home Front, Albert Speer and Full Mobilization,
and Nazi attitudes towards Women)
37. Japan (Include: sacrifices, Kamikazes, General Hideki Tojo and Japanese Women)

HW 23 U: Map of South America (32 items)

1. Use BLACK INK to LABEL ALL 13 Nations
2. Use BLUE INK to LABEL ALL 14 Capitals of Nations
3. Use RED INK to LABEL these FIVE bodies of water:
Caribbean Sea, Rio de La Plata, Strait of Magellan,
Draw and Label TWO Rivers: Amazon and Parana

HW 23 V: Map of North America (37 items)

1. Use BLACK INK to LABEL ALL 15 Nations
2. Use BLUE INK to LABEL ALL 15 Capitals of Nations
3. Use RED INK to LABEL these SEVEN bodies of water:
Hudson Bay, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea,
Draw and Label these TWO Rivers: Mississippi and Rio Grande
Draw and Label the Panama Canal
HW 23 W: Map of the World
1. *** LABEL the capital of Australia in BLUE ***
2. Use RED INK to LABEL the Oceans
3. Use RED INK to LABEL the Continents
4. Use RED INK to carefully CIRCLE Asia
5. Use RED INK to carefully CIRCLE North America
6. Use RED INK to carefully CIRCLE Latin America
7. Use RED INK to LABEL the three largest deserts
8. Use a HI-LITER to SHADE in the three major jungle regions
9. Use Black INK to DRAW and LABEL the Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer,
Prime Meridian and the International Date Line (Then use a Hi-Liter to hi-light the 5 lines)
10. Use BLUE INK to MARK the following letters where these civilizations or cities began:
M for Mesopotamia
E for Egypt
I where India began
C where China began
R for Rome
G for Greece
B for Byzantium (changed to Constantinople, but now Istanbul)
P for Persia
W for the Golden Age Kingdoms of Africa
A for Aztecs
Y for Mayans
N for Incas
X where Carthage was
S for Salinas

for Jerusalem

for Mecca

HW 23 X: Map of Europe, 1945 - During World War II

1. LABEL at least 60 nations, cities or bodies of water in or adjacent to Europe.
2. Use RED for water, BLACK for nations and BLUE for capitals.
3. Do not label continents, oceans or other items from the World Map.
4. Use a HI-LITER to SHADE in Hitler’s empire at its height in World War II.

HW 23 Y: Map of Asia
1. Use BLACK INK to LABEL at least 30 Nations in Asia
2. Use BLUE INK to LABEL at least 30 Capitals of Nations in Asia
3. Use RED INK to LABEL at least 10 bodies of water in Asia (Oceans do NOT count)
4. Use a HI-LITER to CIRCLE Japan’s empire at its height in World War II.