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Chapter 16 Homework

Due: Wednesday, March 10

 

      Answer each of the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.  Make sure to answer the questions in complete sentences.  You will be graded based upon the thoroughness of your answers.

 

Section 1: Hitler’s Lightning War

 

  1. What did Stalin and Hitler each gain from signing a non-aggression pact with one another?
  2. What strategy did Hitler use to conquer Poland?
  3. What was Hitler’s plan for conquering France?
  4. What happened at Dunkirk?
  5. What was the outcome of the Battle of Britain?
  6. Explain the significance of the seize at Tobruk?
  7. How did Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union compare with Napoleon’s invasion of Russia?

 

Section 2: Japan Strikes in the Pacific

 

  1. What events led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
  2. Explain Japan’s course of action after the attack at Pearl Harbor until the Battle of Midway in May 1942.
  3. What was Doolittle’s raid on Japan and what was the significance of this attack?
  4. What happened at the Battle of Midway and what was its significance?
  5. Explain Douglas MacArthur’s plan for the Pacific war.
  6. What were fighting conditions like in the Pacific arena of the war?

 

Section 4: The Allies are Victorious

 

  1. Explain who each of the following generals are and the campaigns in which they participated:
  2. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad fought and what led to the German defeat?
  3. What led Italy to surrender and what happened to Mussolini after this happened?
  4. Explain what is involved when mobilizing for total war using the United States as an example.
  5. Why did President Roosevelt set up Japanese internment camps?
  6. Explain why Hitler began the Battle of the Bulge and what the outcome of the battle was.
  7. How did World War II in Europe end?
  8. What was fighting like on Okinawa, and what did this battle cause President Truman to decide?

 

Section 5: The Devastation of Europe and Japan

 

Write half a page on each of the following two questions.

 

  1. Explain the situation in Europe after World War II physically, economically, and politically.
  2. Explain the changes that came to Japan after the war.