Chapter 22Qfocus

Step 1: Qfocus

Step 2: 10 class discussion questions1. What was the significance of June 6, 1944? 2. What were the effects of Hitler? Stalin? Musolini?3. What did America have to offer in WWII? What impact did American forces have on the war? How

many lives were lost?4. If the US hadn’t joined the war, how would we have gotten out of the Depression? 5. What caused Pearl Harbor? Who attacked Pearl Harbor? Why? How did America respond?6. What inventions and advances were introduced because of the war?7. What was Hitler’s strategy? Was it effective? Stalin? Mussolini?8. What was the turning point of WWII in the Pacific? In Europe?9. What does the symbol on Hitler’s arm represent?10. What caused Iwo Jima? Why was Iwo Jima important to the US? When did Iwo Jima occur? How

did it affect American morale?

Chapter 22 Reading QuestionsSection 1: A Time of Tyrants 1.1 Who are the four major tyrants? How did their actions cause a world war?1.2 What is the Munich Conference? What was its significance?1.3 Create a timeline of the series of events that triggered World War II. 1.4 What was Churchill’s role in responding to Nazi aggression? Describe. Section 2: Isolation and Infamy2.1 What are the three major factors that encouraged American neutrality during the 1930s? 2.2 What were the events in the United States that showed a shift away from isolationism following the outbreak of war in Europe? 2.3 Describe America’s entry into World War II. 2.4 What were the changes socially and economically that the war brought to the American home? Section 3: The Fight for Fortress Europe3.1 Describe the series of campaigns by which the western Allies invaded Hitler’s Europe. 3.2 What was D-day? Explain. Section 4: The War in the Pacific 4.1 What was America’s Pacific strategy for defeating Japan? Explain. 4.2 What was the significance of the Yalta conference to postwar Europe?4.3 How did Truman justify the use of atomic weapons against Japan?