1. Explain how the following demonstrated the inability and unwillingness of the Western democracies to effectively resist aggression in the 1930s.

Japan in Manchuria

Italy in Ethiopia

The Spanish Civil War (Republicans v. Fascists)

2. Describe how the Allies’ policy of "appeasement" allowed Hitler to reestablish Germany as a power capable of threatening European peace.

Hitler: "We must always demand so much that we can never be satisfied."

Lebensraum

German Rearmament (1935)

Anglo-German Naval Treaty (1935)

Remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936)

Appeasement

The Anschluss (1936)

The Sudetenland

Neville Chamberlain

Munich Conference (1938)

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939)

September 1, 1939

3.  WWII Terms – After reading the account of World War II in Chapter 35 of the MEH, identify the following terms and explain their significance to the war.

Maginot Line

Vichy France

The Free French

The Battle of Britain

The Battle of the Atlantic

Operation Barbarossa (June 1941)

Battle of Stalingrad

Normandy Invasion

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference