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The Enduring Vision,
Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Chapter 25:
Americans and a World in Crisis, 1933-1945
- On the map of Europe and North Africa in the 1930s, on the following page,
locate each of the following and explain its significance in the coming of
World War II
Spain
Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
Rhinel and Ethiopia
Austria
Sudetenl and Munich
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Danzig
Poland (area occupied by the Soviet Union; area occupied by Germany under
the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Pact)
- On the map of the European theater of war, 1939-1945, locate and explain the military and/or political importance of each
of the following:
areas overrun by the German offensive between April and June 1940 (Denmark,
Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
English Channel
Dunkirk
Iceland
Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad
Crimean Peninsula (Yalta)
Caucasus Mountains
North African campaign (Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Suez Canal, Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, Libya, Allied landing areas)
Sicily
Casablanca
Cairo
Rome
Eastern European countries occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944-1945 (Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia)
Tehran, Iran
Normandy
Paris
Ardennes Forest (Battle of the Bulge)
Rhine River
Berlin
Vienna
Elbe River
- On the map of the Far Eastern theater of war, 1941-1945, which appears on the following page, locate and explain the military
and/or political importance of each of the following:
areas attacked and/or occupied by Japan prior to or on December 7, 1941 (Manchuria, parts of China, Indochina, Thailand, Pearl
Harbor)
Dutch East Indies
Burma and the Burma Road
Malaya
Philippines (Manila)
Guam
Wake
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal)
Mariana Islands
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Leyte Gulf
Kurile Islands
Sakahalin Island
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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