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Explore the rise of totalitarian states like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, examining the underlying causes of World War II, key figures such as Mussolini, Hirohito, and Hitler, the Holocaust, Allied and Axis Powers dynamics, warfare tactics like Blitzkrieg, and the aftermath with Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Cold War.
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World War II Chapter 25 World History: Volume II: Since 1500 pgs. 731-765
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?