STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 28:

 

GLOBAL CONFLAGRATION: HOT WAR AND COLD WAR

 

 

 

TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

 

Manhattan Project

Robert Oppenheimer

Enrico Fermi

Axis Powers

Grand Alliance

Munich

Neville Chamberlain

Edouard Daladier

Non-Aggression Pact

"Winter War"

"phony war"

Dunkirk

Vichy

appeasement

blitzkrieg

Battle of Britain

resistance movements 

Tito

the "final solution"

Reinhard Heydrich

Auschwitz

Great Patriotic War

Gyorgi Zhukov

Stalingrad

Nagasaki

Yalta

appeasement

Lend-Lease

Tripartite Pact

Dwight Eisenhower

Midway

Chester Nimitz

Hiroshima

Potsdam

Douglas Macarthur

Albert Einstein

Winston Churchill

Nuremberg Trials

Operation Barbarossa

Pact of Steel

Battle of Britain

Operation Marita

SS

Iwo Jima

Adolph Hitler

Operation Overlord

SD

 

 

 

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

 

Manchuria

Sudetenland

Vichy France

Dunkirk

Stalingrad

Leningrad

Ural Mountains

Midway

Canton

Rotterdam

Dresden

Shanghai

Hankow

Guadalcanal

Senegal

Solomon Islands

Bessarabia

Caucasus

Coventry

Malaga

Burma

Peking

Nanking

Pearl Harbor

Hong Kong

Singapore

Thailand

 

           

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

 

1.         What led to the policy of appeasement in the 1930s?  Why did Western nations such as Britain fail to understand Hitler’s ambitions in the 1930s?  Does appeasement ever work? 

 

2.         What rationale (if any) lay behind Hitler’s "Final Solution”?  How did the mass killing come about?  What (if anything) could the Allies have done to try to stop it?

 

3.         Germany controlled most of continental Europe in 1941 yet fell to Allied forces in 1945.  What forces and events turned the tide of war?  Were internal or external pressures more decisive in Germany's defeat? 

 

4.         Was President Roosevelt right in pursuing a Europe-first policy?  Given the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, should he have concentrated first on the war in the Pacific?

 

5.         How were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified at the time?  Were we racist in using the bomb?  Would we have used atomic weapons against Nazi Germany, had they been available?

 

6.         What role did the US play in western Europe’s postwar recovery?  How did the success of the Marshall Plan shape Western policies and society in the 1950s? 

            What role did the USSR play in eastern Europe? 

 

7.         What fundamental differences divided the two sides in the Cold War?  How did the Cold War between the US and USSR affect the rest of the world?