U6A (Chpt 16) Vocab Test

Monday, February 3, 2020

30 points, 40 minutes timed (will have the first 5 minutes for a QUICK, tech-free review).

Study Plan-REVIEW ALL VOCAB for Chpt 16 in your logs. Here are some review questions to “quiz” yourself on the tricky ones, but please know them ALL. Details, Details, Details!

16.1-Dictators Threaten World Peace

  • Who were the Dictators? Where were they in control? What type of Dictators were they?
  • What IS Fascism? How did the U.S. try to stay neutral, early on specifically (hint-the law…what did it entail?)

16.2-War in Europe

  • Who supported the Munich Pact and who was against it? What did the Munich Pact do? What policy did it lead to?
  • Who had a peace agreement between them and secretly agreed to divide Poland?
  • What kind of fighting was “blitzkrieg” (describe), where was it used first, and by who?

16.3-The Holocaust

What was the Holocaust and how was it “genocide”? Who was targeted by the Nazis, and what happened on “Kristallnacht” as a result? Who was forced to live in “ghettos” and then, eventually, “concentration camps” and why? What happened to these people in those camps during the final stages of the Final Solution?

16.4-America Moves Towards war

  • Who was in the Axis Powers alliance?
  • What was the Lend-Lease Act, who was it made between, and why? According to the Axis powers, what early Acts did it violate and how?
  • Who met to discuss the Atlantic Charter and what did they agree to? What document came as a result of this?
  • What military leader in Japan authorized the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? (largely due to the US’s perceived violations of the Neutrality Acts and alliance with Britain)
  • What was the term for the countries that opposed the Axis Powers, led by Britain and France? Who later joined after Hitler invaded Poland and violated their agreement? Who joined in 1941 after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan?

ADDITIONAL VOCAB TO LOOK-UP (in context of WW2): Aryan (master race), Atrocity, Martyr, Coup

HAVE ANCHOR CHARTS AVAILABLE!

WW1—–>WW2: https://youtu.be/UBI6ZzaP2Uk

Hitler’s Rise to Power: https://youtu.be/yEk6zGYwyhc

Blitzkrieg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4krV180eRQ 

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