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**The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II** Key Terms and Essays AP European History—Jackson Spielvogel text Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words, describe what it is or who it is and explain **why** it matters.)
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//Prelude to War// Slavs “diplomatic revolution” (German) rearmament appeasement Rome-Berlin Axis Anti-Comintern Pact Blitzkrieg Neville Chamberlain annexation of Austria Sudetenland Munich Conference invasion of Poland Manchuria Nanjing

//The Course of World War II// panzer division Maginot Line Luftwaffe Vichy France Winston Churchill the Battle of Britain invasion of the Soviet Union Pearl Harbor Axis powers the Allies unconditional surrender Edwin Rommel Stalingrad Battle of Midway Normandy Battle of Kursk Hiroshima and Nagasaki (continued in Home Front section)

//The New Order// the Nazi New Order Heinrich Himmler Charles DeGaulle Tito Claus von Stauffenberg Madagascar Plan the Final Solution/Wannsee the Holocaust Auschwitz-Birkenau the “other Holocaust”

//The Home Front// “Dig for Victory” “battle of machines” “Night Witches” the Manhattan Project the code of //bushido kamikaze// pilots Dresden

//Aftermath of the War// the Big Three the Tehran Conference the Yalta Conference the Potsdam Conference Nuremberg Trials (will be covered in class)

You could be writing 2 SAQ's (no questions in advance) or we might be writing one of these LEQ's in class. Or maybe we'll do a DBQ.
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1) Compare the home fronts of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany. Did organization of the home front play a role in the outcome of the war? Explain. (comparison) 2) Describe how civilians experienced WWII differently than they experienced WWI. Was there some continuity? (CCOT)? 3) Turning Point/Periodization: Evaluate the reasons for Axis success from 1939-1942, and the reasons for Axis failure afterward.? In other words, why is 1942 a turning point in WWII? (periodization.) 4) How did the Allies' views of a postwar Europe differ? (comparison) (This is unlikely, so don't worry about it just yet) 5) Discuss continuity and change in anti-semitism in Europe from 1890 to 1945. (CCOT)?