What you should know about the World War II:

By using your books and other suitable sources you should answer the following questions:

1. What is significant of “the total war”?
2. What caused the Second World War? Differ between short term and long term causes.
3. Why did Japan attack the US? Why did the US try to stay outside the war?
4. Did Hitler intend for this to be a World War?
5. Differ between economic, ideological, political and religious causes to the war.
6. What were the tactics behind the Blitzkrieg?
7. What role did women have during the war?
8. How important was the home front?
9. How strong was the resistance in German occupied territories.
10. What was the result of the war, in concern to:
1. Treaties and wars ending without treaties?
2. Territorial changes and minorities?
3. Change of the status of women?
4. Change of status for the black American?
11. There are a few extremely well-known battles and events during the war that you simply have to know. Fill in the chart below:

The Event, fill in the exact date and year (where it’s possible):	Describe short what happened:	What were the results for the outcome of the war:
1. Hitler invades Poland.
2. The Phoney War.
3. April 9 1940
4. Blitzkrieg over Holland
5. Dunkirk
6. The Vichy Regime
7. The Battle of Britain.
8. The Blitz 40 – 45.
9. Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia.
10. Operation Barbarossa
11. Winter of 1941 on the eastern front.
12. Pearl Harbor.
13. The Battle of Midway.
14. El Alamein.
15. Stalingrad.
16. German U-boats in the Atlantic.
17. Allied in Italy / Fall of Mussolini.
18. Fall of Rome.
19. D-day. Operation Overlord.
20. The Battle of the Bulges / Ardennes Offensive.
21. Bombing of Dresden.
22. Russians arrive to Berlin.
23. Germany Surrenders to the Allied and to the Russians, Different dates.
24. Iwo Jima.
25. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.