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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
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Chapter 32: World War II
- What efforts promoted international reconciliation during the 1920s? How did these efforts foster only an illusion of peace?
- What were Hitler's foreign policy aims?
- Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement?
- Discuss the significance of the following: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (1935), Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Germany's union with Austria (1938), and the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939).
- Why did France fall to Germany so quickly?
- What problems did the German army face in Russia?
- Describe the New Order imposed by the Nazis on Europe.
- How did the Holocaust effect Western civilization? What is the meaning of the Holocaust for Jews, Christians, and Germans?
- Discuss the significance of the following battles: Midway (1942), Stalingrad (1942-43), El Alamein (1942), and D-day (1944).
- What is the legacy of World War II?
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