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4. Why did the Holocaust occur? (WHII12.b)

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4. Why did the Holocaust occur? (WHII12.b)

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• Totalitarianism combined with
nationalism
• History of anti-Semitism
• Defeat in World War I and economic
depression blamed on German Jews
• Hitler’s belief in the master race
• Final solution: Extermination camps,
gas chambers

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3. Who were the major leaders of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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3. Who were the major leaders of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. president
• Harry Truman: U.S. president after death of
President Roosevelt
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Allied commander in Europe
• Douglas MacArthur: U.S. general
• George C. Marshall: U.S. general
• Winston Churchill: British prime minister
• Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator
• Adolf Hitler: Nazi dictator of Germany
• Hideki Tojo: Japanese general
• Hirohito: Emperor of Japan

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2. What were the major events of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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2. What were the major events of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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• German invasion of Poland
• Fall of France
• Battle of Britain
• German invasion of the Soviet Union
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
• D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe)
• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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1. What were the causes of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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1. What were the causes of World War II? (WHII12.a)

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• Aggression by the totalitarian powers of Germany,
Italy, Japan
• Nationalism
• Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Weakness of the League of Nations
• Appeasement
• Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in
Europe and the United States