Review+for+WWII+test


 * For the WWII test, please review the following sets of notes. At this point in the year you should be able independently to review your notes and choose the important ID's to study. Remember a good ID includes the who, what, when, where and why it is important.**

Notes to study:
 * 1) League of Nations notes (including conferences and timeline of fascist aggression) (include maps we used to pinpoint areas of fascist aggression)
 * 2) Definitions of Communism, Fascism and Totalitarianism
 * 3) Webquest on primary sources
 * 4) Notes on Fighting WWII

Identifications: Example of a strong ID to study from. (I wouldn't expect you to memorize a quote for a test like this)

Winston Churchill was a British prime minister after Neville Chamberlain's failed policy of appeasement. He openly disagreed with Chamberlain's assessment of how to deal with Hitler's aggressive foreign policy of Facsist Expansion in the mid to late 1930s. As the leader of Britain during World War II he is known for his strategic work with Franklin Roosevelt to craft a winning strategy for the Allies. He is also known for his inspirational leadership for the British during the Battle of Britain. His speech "The Finest Hour" delivered to Parliament on June 8, 1940, included the following quote: //If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.// //Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' (//[|//http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/churchill-hour.htm//]//).// This quote illustrates several points. First, Churchill recongnized the importance that Britain stand up to Hitler's invasion and that the future of democracies relied on it. Second, that this Battle of Britain would have historic importance in the history of the British Empire.
 * Winston Churchill**

A few other IDs to study:


 * Manchuria**

user:Ratna Communism is a subset of Totalitarianism that stresses hard work for the common good over that of the individual, and places emphasis on total equality.
 * Communism**

user:Ratna Fascism is a single-party, empire-oriented political ideology that is capitalist in nature and relies on an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy. Fascism is very totalitarian in its control of the lives of its citizens: women were even rewarded for birthing under this regime! Fascist aggression was especially prevalent in the period directly before World War II, from 1931 to 1939, and can be traced as a major cause of the war. Examples of this aggression include Japan's conquest of Manchuria and invasion of China, Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, Germany's re-militarization of the Rhineland, Germany's annexation of France and Sudetenland, Germany's attack on Poland, and Spain's civil war.
 * Fascism**

user:Ratna Nazism is a subset of Fascism that focuses on the pseudoscience of "eugenics" (from the Greek // eu- // "good" + // genos // "birth"), the belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits. See below for Hitler's approach to eugenics.
 * Nazism**

user:Ratna Adolf Hitler established and built up the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party, which, while unsuccessful at first, gained popularity as the German people became increasingly disheartened by the Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler attempted to "socially cleanse" Germany of Jews, Gypsies, Czechs, Slovaks, and the physically and mentally disabled by means of the Holocaust (from the Greek //holokauston// "burnt whole"). He intended to create a superior Aryan race and placed the aforementioned peoples in concentration camps as his "Final Solution" to the "Jew Problem."
 * Hitler**