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8 Learning Targets Unit 8

World War II
10.8.1 *
1. I can describe why the Germans wanted to create a
new empire in the 1930s.
2. I can describe why the Italians wanted to create a
new empire in the 1930s.
3. I can describe why the Japanese wanted to create a
new empire in the 1930s.
4. I can discuss the similarities and differences in
each countrys drive to create an empire.
5. I can describe what happened, where and why, for
the 1937 Rape of Nanking.
6. I can describe at least one other atrocity that took
place in China in the 1930s.
7. I can describe what happened, where and why, for
the Stalin-Hitler Pact of August 23, 1939.
10.8.2 *
8. I can define appeasement and give an example of
how it happened prior to WW II.
9. I can define isolationism and provide an example of
it prior to WW II.
10. I can describe what happened, and why, to cause
the US and Europe to be distracted domestically, prior
to WW II.
11. I can explain how the roles of appeasement and
isolationism helped lead to the outbreak of WW II.
10.8.3
12. I can locate both the Allied and Axis powers on a
map.
13. I can describe the following major turning points in
WW II:
Germanys Blitzkrieg
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
North African Campaign
Pearl Harbor
US bombing of Tokyo
Battle of Midway

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D-Day Invasion
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle for Okinawa
14. I can describe what the two principal theaters of
conflict in WW II.
15. I can describe at least two key strategic decisions
made by world leaders during WW II.
16. I can explain the significance of at least two major
war conferences at the end of the war, and how they
changed the political geography of Europe.
10.8.4
17. I can explain the significance of each of the
following political, diplomatic, or military leaders during
WW II:
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Emperor Hirohito
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Josef Stalin
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10.8.5 *
18. I can describe the Nazi policy of pursuing racial
purity by explaining who, why, and how, for at least
three different groups they targeted.
19. I can explain how the Nazi policy of racial purity
turned into Hitlers Final Solution.
20. I can describe how the Holocaust began, what
happened, to whom, when, and why.
21. I can describe the human costs of WW II, with
special attention to civilian and military losses in the
following countries:
Russia
Germany
Britain
The US
China
Japan

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World War II
1. non-aggression pact
2. Polish corridor
3. blitzkrieg
4. phony war
5. sitzkrieg
6. Maginot line
7. Siegfried line
8. Dunkirk
9. Charles de Gaulle
10. Free French
11. General Erwin Rommel
12. aryans
13. holocaust
14. kristallnacht
15. refugee
16. anti-Semitism
17. ghettos
18. final solution
19. genocide
20. the SS
21. Auschwitz
22. General Bernard Montgomery
23. kamikaze
24. Nuremberg Trials
25. demilitarization
26. Diet (Japanese Parliament)
27. Lend-lease act
28. Internment
29. Atlantic Charter
30. island hopping

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