Name: WW II Homework Packet #3 Honors (Ch. 15-16) Determine whether each statement below is true or false. 1. Blitzkrieg means lightning war. T or F 2. The Luftwaffe was the Soviet Air Force. T or F 3. All people in concentration camps get killed. T or F 4. Genocide is trying to kill all people of one race. T or F 5. Appeasement was worse than the Depression. T or F Use the space below to write an short essay. Life under a dictator or totalitarian can be difficult. Describe life under this form of government
World War II in Europe officially ended on May 8, 1945. This is known as V-E Day. The Allies were able to defeat the Germans for many reasons. The Germans had to fight on several fronts at the same time. Hitler also made some poor decisions. He underestimated the Soviet Union s ability to fight. The enormous production and economic potential of the United States was another factor. By 1944, the United States was producing twice as much as the Axis powers combined. Allied bombings hurt German production and made oil scarce. The Luftwaffe had no fuel to get off of the ground. Once Germany was defeated, the Allies still had to defeat Japan in the Pacific. As early as May 1942m the Japanese controlled much of Southeast Asia, many Pacific Islands, and the Philippines. Thousands of American prisoners-of-war were killed during the brutal Bataan Death March. Japan s control of the oil fields of the Pacific made it a difficult opponent to overcome. As the United States began its attacks, General Douglas MacArthur began an island hopping campaign. Instead of attacking the Japanese mainland, his objective was to take back one island at a time in an order that Japan would not be able to predict. These islands would later serve as stepping stones for the final goal Japan. By 1944, the United States Navy was blockading Japan and the Army and Air Force were bombing Japanese cities and factories from above. The bloody battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa showed that the Japanese would fight to the death rather than surrender. Some pilots, known as kamikazes, crashed their planes into US warships. As the violence continued, scientists offered a way out. Their research, called the Manhattan Project, had produced an atomic bomb for the US. Understanding that dropping the bomb on the Japanese would save American lives, he decided to use it. On August 6, 1945, a US plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb killed more than 70,000 instantly. Another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9. The next day, August 10, Japan surrendered and World war II had come to a close. What was the name for Japanese pilots who went on suicide missions? Find the word objective in the underlined sentence. What do you think it means? Use the clues in the sentence to help you if you are not sure. Recognize Sequences Fill in the blanks below to put the events in order that took place in Japan from Aug 6 to Aug 10, 1945. Aug 6 Aug 9 Aug 10
Casualties of World War II ALLIED POWERS Britain France China Soviet Union United States Military Dead Military Wounded Civilian Dead 389,000 211,000 500,000 7,500,000 292,000 475,000 400,000 1,700,000 14,102,000 671,000 65,000 108,000 1,000,000 15,000,000 0 AXIS POWERS Germany Italy Japan 2,850,000 77,500 1,576,000 7,250,000 120,000 500,000 5,000,000 100,000 300,000 Use the table above to answer the following questions. 1. How do the casualty figures for the Soviet Union compare to the figures of the other Allies? 2. Why do you think this happened? 3. Why was there such a low casualty rate for Italy? 4. Why were there no civilian deaths for the United States? 5. This is the second time in 30 years that Russia (or the USSR) has now been invaded. At least 10 million soldiers and somewhere around 20-25 million innocent civilians have been killed because of these wars. When the war was over, what would you do to protect the USSR from ever having to suffer in war again?
Asian Map Using your book, find and label the following places on the map. 1. Iraq 8. China 2. Afghanistan 9. Russia 3. Pakistan 10. North Korea 4. India 11. Japan 5. Iran 12. Vietnam 6. Saudi Arabia 13. South Korea 7. Turkey 14. Syria
Africa Map Egypt Ethiopia Libya Nigeria Liberia Congo Morocco Algeria South Africa Rwanda Madagascar Kenya Sudan Somalia
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