World War II

Chapter 25World History: Volume II: Since 1500

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People, Places, Ideas• totalitarian state• Benito Mussolini• Hirohito Showa• Adolf Hitler• National Socialist German

Worker’s Party (Nazi)• concentration camps• Heinrich Himmler• Nuremberg laws• Kristallnacht• anti-Semitism*• Treaty of Versailles• appeasement• Blitzkrieg

*denotes review term from previous chapters.

• Pearl Harbor• Franklin D. Roosevelt• Allied Powers / Axis Powers• Joseph Stalin• Holocaust / Final Solution• Auschwitz-Birkenau• Rosie the Riveter**• kamikaze• Harry Truman• atomic bomb• Hiroshima / Nagasaki• Yalta Conference• Cold War

**term not found in textbook, use the internet.

Big Questions

• What were the underlying causes of World War II, and what specific steps taken by Nazi Germany and Japan led to war?

• What was the relationship between World War I and World War II, and what were the differences in the way the wars were fought?