Homework Sheet 5
Global History II - Edwards

 After-School Review Session – Tuesday 3/19

WORLD WAR 2 TEST –WEDNESDAY 3/20

Homework 20- Due 3/21/13
Read pages 808-813 in your textbook
Answer questions 1-5 on page 813

Homework 21- Due 4/2/13


Research a current global event that you take interest in. You can search for the event through any printed news resource (i.e. newspaper, magazine, website).  Use ONE article to learn about this current event.
You will complete a 1-page, 2-paragraph assignment on this current event.

Paragraph 1: Write a summary of the article, explaining the where, when, who, and why of the current event you have chosen.

Paragraph 2: Write a reaction:  
Why were you interested in this event?  
Does this event affect your life as an American citizen?
How does this event connect to our study of
Global History & Geography?

The following questions and vocabulary are meant to guide you in studying for your test on World War II.  The test will be WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20TH

1.  To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles set the stage for World War II?

2.  How did the League of Nations plan to deal with future international conflicts?

3.  What were the causes the Great Depression? What was it?

4.  Why did the Japanese adopt policies of militarism and imperialism?

5.  What impact did Japanese occupation have on China?

6.  Why did Britain and France practice a policy of appeasement between the wars?

7.  How did renewed imperialism, aggression by the Axis powers, The Treaty of Versailles, rising nationalism, appeasement policies, and the Great Depression lead to World War ll?
 
8.  Why were the leaders of Britain, France and the United States slow to respond to the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan?

9.  What roles did Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt play in the Allies' ultimate  success?
 
10.  Why did Stalin and Hitler initially become allies, and why did that alliance dissolve?

11.  Why and how did the Final Solution come about?
 
12.  How did the interpretation of the Holocaust change over time? To what extent was (and is) the Holocaust viewed differently by different groups?

13.  What extent, and why, do the Germans, Russians, British, French, and Americans view World War II differently?
 
14.  How did the two world wars affect the roles and status of women?
 
15.  Why is World War II considered a total war?
 
16.  Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?


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