World War II By: Antonio and Jayda

Introduction

  Background Information

 Following WWI, the treaty of Versaille was made, stating that Germany was to pay for all damages from the war.  Germany was not to build up a military, and were forced to return conquered lands to Russia and France.

Task

Germany                             

Questions

  1. What is the Nazi expansion?
  2. What were the first 3 places that Hitler conquered?
  3. Why did he decide to conquer those countries?
  4. What is the non- agression pact?
  5. What countries were part of the Axis Powers?
  6. Why did Hitler decide to attack Poland first?
  7. What is D-day?

Answers

  1. Hitler and his troops invaded different nations and took control of people and their land.
  2. Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia.
  3. All 3 of these countries were pro German.
  4. Germany and the Soviet Union made an agreement to not attack each other and to help each other if needed.  This created an alliance that would be broken by the Germans.
  5. Japan, Italy, and Germany
  6. Poland was a small country with a small miltary.  They were easy.
  7. D-day was when the Allied powers cleared the French beach in Normandy to get more troops into Germany.
Process

Asia

Questions

  1. Why did Japan attack China?
  2. Why was Japan attacking other nations?
  3. What did America try to do to slow down Japan?
  4. What state in the US was bombed by Japan?
  5. Where else did Japan bomb?

Answers

  1. China had the natural resources that Japan needed.  Jaan was broke, so they just decided to take what they needed.
  2. Japan wanted to expand its empire.
  3. Japan was getting most of their oil from America, so they decided to stop selling oil to them i hopes of slowing them down until America recovered from the war enough to stop them.
  4. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because it was a huge military base.
  5. Japan also bombed the Phillipines, taking out even more of America's troops.
Evaluation

America

Questions 

  1. Why did America enter WWII?
  2. Who attacked Pearl Harbor?
  3. Who was the new president after Roosevelt's death?
  4. What was the Manhattan Project?
  5. Where did America drop the atomic bombs? (2 locations)

 

 

Answers

  1. Pearl Harbor was bombed
  2. The Japanese
  3. Harry S. Truman
  4. The research and creation of the atomic bomb
  5. The first bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and the second was dropped in Nagasaki                                        
Conclusion

The End of the War

At the end of the war many confernces were made these include:

Tehran Conferance- Stalin, Churchill, and FDR plan D-Day and agree to work for piece after war

Yalta Conferance- decide what to do with post war europe and the UN(United Nations) is created

Potsdam Conferance- discuss issues with postwar Europe but can't reach any agreements; American and British leaders are worried about Stalin's goal to spread communism

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