Name: Period: Date

2. Label the map as follows:

Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, Adriatic Sea

h. legend/key (10 pts)

Create a legend/key using the box provided on the map.

The legend/key must have the items from:

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  Letter d (special items)
  
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  Letter e (alliances)
  
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  Letter f (your two symbols for battles)
  

Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)

1. 
   Name the countries that made up the Axis Powers. (6pts)
   

2. 
   Name the European countries that remained neutral throughout the war.
   

3. 
   Name the event that started World War Two.
   

4. 
   How is Germany’s location in Europe an advantage in launching an offensive war?
   

5. 
   How is Germany’s location in Europe a disadvantage in World War Two?
   

6. 
   Describe the amount of territory controlled by the Axis powers by 1942.
   

7. 
   Fill in the chart below: (8pts)
   

Leader	Country	Axis or Allied
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Charles DeGaulle
Benito Mussolini

8. 
   What is the Rhineland? Why did Hitler want this area? What was the reaction of the rest of Europe to Hitler taking the Rhineland? (6pts)
   

9. 
   What is the Sudetenland? Why did Hitler want this area? Did the people in this area want to join Hitler? Why was Czechoslovakia nervous about losing the Sudetenland? (8pts)
   

10. 
    Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
    

Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)

1. 
   Name the countries that made up the Axis Powers. (6pts)
   

Germany, Italy, Libya, Albania, East Prussia, Japan

2. 
   Name the European countries that remained neutral throughout the war.
   

Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Slovakia, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt

3. 
   Name the event that started World War Two.
   

Germany invading Poland

4. 
   How is Germany’s location in Europe an advantage in launching an offensive war?
   

Students should mention their central location and ease in attacking other countries on the continent

5. 
   How is Germany’s location in Europe a disadvantage in World War Two?
   

Students answer should mention the fact that Germany could be attacked from multiple sides

6. 
   Describe the amount of territory controlled by the Axis powers by 1942.
   

Germany controlled nearly the entire mainland of Europe with only the Iberian peninsula not in their possession. And they took a good chunk of the USSR

7. 
   Fill in the chart below: (8pts)
   

Leader	Country	Axis or Allied
Adolf Hitler	Germany	Axis
Winston Churchill	Great Britain	Allied
Charles DeGaulle	France	Allied
Benito Mussolini	Italy	Axis

8. 
   What is the Rhineland? Why did Hitler want this area? What was the reaction of the rest of Europe to Hitler taking the Rhineland? (6pts)
   

A German territory that bordered France

To reunite all German speaking people and as a reaction to the French-Soviet military agreement

Complained about Hitler doing it and breaking the Treaty of Versailles but took no real action

9. 
   What is the Sudetenland? Why did Hitler want this area? Did the people in this area want to join Hitler? Why was Czechoslovakia nervous about losing the Sudetenland? (8pts)
   

A region filled with a German speaking population

To reunite all the German speaking people and to protect them from Czechoslovakia government

Yes they wanted to join Germany

Losing this heavily armed mountain region would leave Czechoslovakia defenseless against Germany

10. 
    Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
    

Answer will vary. Students’ answers must include the battle name and evidence to support their decision.

World War Two Map Directions: Pacific Theater

Directions: Complete the following tasks using your text book. Do not color the map unless specifically told to shade. Instead label using the colors provided. Page 807 in your textbook will be useful to complete this task.
1. Title the map "World War Two Pacific Theater or WWII Pacific Theater" (2pts)

2. Label the map as follows:

a. bodies of water [blue]: (4pts)

Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean

b. countries [black (all capital letters)]: (26pts)

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  h. legend/key (10 pts)
  
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  Create a legend/key using the box provided on the map.
  
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  The legend/key must have the items from:
  

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  Letter d (special items)
  
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  Letter e (alliances)
  
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  Letter f (your two symbols for battles)
  

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  Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
  

1. 
   Name the event that brought the United States into World War Two.
   

2. 
   What mainland Asia areas did Japan control?
   

3. 
   Name the battle that was the furthest south.
   

4. 
   Describe the amount of territory Japan controlled by July 1942.
   

5. 
   Looking at your map how describe how the fighting in the Pacific Theater would be different from fighting in Europe. What term best describes this type of fighting?
   

6. 
   Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
   

7. 
   Use the passage from the August 29, 1945 edition of the Christian Century (a prominent American Journal) to answer the questions that follow it. (1pt each question)
   

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  “Perhaps it was inevitable that the bomb would ultimately be employed to bring Japan to the point of surrender…But there was no military advantage in hurling the bomb upon Japan without warning. The least we might have done was to announce to our foe that we possessed the atomic bomb; that its destructive power was beyond anything known in warfare; and that its terrible effectiveness had been experimentally demonstrated in this country….If she [Japan] doubted the good faith of our representations, it would have been a simple matter to select a demonstration target in the enemy’s own country at a place where the loss of human life would be at a minimum. If, despite such a warning, Japan had still held out, we would have been in a far less questionable position had we then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
  
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1. 
   What is The Christian Century’s view on the United States use of the atomic bomb as a weapon?
   

1. 
   What proposal did The Christian Century present as an alternative to method that the United States carried out? Why did they propose such an option?
   

8. 
   Use passage from Memoirs of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1947) to answer the questions that follow it. (1 pt each question)
   

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  The principal political, social, and military objective of the United States in the summer of 1945 was the prompt and complete surrender of Japan. Only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace ....
  
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  In the middle of July, 1945, the intelligence section of the War Department General Staff estimated Japanese military strength as follows: in the home islands, slightly under 2,000,000; in Korea, Manchuria, China proper, and Formosa, slightly over 2,000,000; in French Indo-China, Thailand, and Burma, over 200,000; in the East Indies area, including the Philippines, over 500,000; in the bypassed Pacific islands, over 100,000. The total strength of the Japanese Army was estimated at about 5,000,000 men. These estimates later proved to be in very close agreement with official Japanese figure..
  
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  As we understood it in July, there was a very strong possibility that the Japanese government might determine upon resistance to the end, in all the areas of the Far East under its control. In such an event the Allies would be faced with the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million men and five thousand suicide aircraft, belonging to a race which had already amply demonstrated its ability to fight literally to the death.
  
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  The strategic plans of our armed forces for the defeat of Japan, as they stood in July, had been prepared without reliance upon the atomic bomb, which had not yet been tested in New Mexico. We were planning an intensified sea and air blockade, and greatly intensified strategic air bombing, through the summer and early fall, to be followed on November I by an invasion of the southern island of Kyushu. This would be followed in turn by an invasion of the main island of Honshu in the spring of 1946. The total U. S. military and naval force involved in this grand design was of the order of 5,000,000 men; if all those indirectly concerned are included, it was larger still.
  
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  We estimated that if we should be forced to carry this plan to its conclusion, the major fighting would not end until the latter part of 1946, at the earliest. I was informed that such operations might be expected to cost over a million casualties, to American forces alone.
  
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1. 
   What was the goal of the United States in 1945 in regards to Japan?
   

1. 
   What possibility was the United States concerned that Japan might carry out?
   

1. 
   According to the passage, had the United States carried out its military plans to defeat Japan without the atomic bomb what were the possible results to the American forces?
   

9. 
   Your choice: Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski? Use evidence from the readings to support your answer. (10pts)
   

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  Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
  

1. 
   Name the event that brought the United States into World War Two.
   

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  Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
  
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2. 
   What mainland Asia areas did Japan control?
   

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  Manchuria, Korea, French Indochina
  
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3. 
   Name the battle that was the furthest south.
   

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  Coral Sea
  
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4. 
   Describe the amount of territory Japan controlled by July 1942.
   

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  Japan controlled practically the entirety of the Pacific
  
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5. 
   Looking at your map how describe how the fighting in the Pacific Theater would be different from fighting in Europe. What term best describes this type of fighting?
   

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  The fighting would be more naval and aerial. With battles between troops on each individual island making it difficult to secure territory.
  
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  Island hopping
  
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6. 
   Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
   

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  Answer will vary. Students’ answers must include the battle name and evidence to support their decision.
  
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7. 
   Use the passage from the August 29, 1945 edition of the Christian Century (a prominent American Journal) to answer the questions that follow it. (1pt each question)
   

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  “Perhaps it was inevitable that the bomb would ultimately be employed to bring Japan to the point of surrender…But there was no military advantage in hurling the bomb upon Japan without warning. The least we might have done was to announce to our foe that we possessed the atomic bomb; that its destructive power was beyond anything known in warfare; and that its terrible effectiveness had been experimentally demonstrated in this country….If she [Japan] doubted the good faith of our representations, it would have been a simple matter to select a demonstration target in the enemy’s own country at a place where the loss of human life would be at a minimum. If, despite such a warning, Japan had still held out, we would have been in a far less questionable position had we then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
  
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1. 
   What is The Christian Century’s view on the United States use of the atomic bomb as a weapon?
   

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  That it was misused as a military weapon and the United States was morally wrong for the manner in which they deployed it.
  

1. 
   What proposal did The Christian Century present as an alternative to method that the United States carried out? Why did they propose such an option?
   

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  USA should’ve warned Japan of this new weapon. Demonstrated it on a target that had no life and if Japan refused to surrender then use the weapon on the population of Japan.
  

8. 
   Use passage from Memoirs of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1947) to answer the questions that follow it. (1 pt each question)
   

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  The principal political, social, and military objective of the United States in the summer of 1945 was the prompt and complete surrender of Japan. Only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace ....
  
• 
  In the middle of July, 1945, the intelligence section of the War Department General Staff estimated Japanese military strength as follows: in the home islands, slightly under 2,000,000; in Korea, Manchuria, China proper, and Formosa, slightly over 2,000,000; in French Indo-China, Thailand, and Burma, over 200,000; in the East Indies area, including the Philippines, over 500,000; in the bypassed Pacific islands, over 100,000. The total strength of the Japanese Army was estimated at about 5,000,000 men. These estimates later proved to be in very close agreement with official Japanese figure..
  
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  As we understood it in July, there was a very strong possibility that the Japanese government might determine upon resistance to the end, in all the areas of the Far East under its control. In such an event the Allies would be faced with the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million men and five thousand suicide aircraft, belonging to a race which had already amply demonstrated its ability to fight literally to the death.
  
• 
  The strategic plans of our armed forces for the defeat of Japan, as they stood in July, had been prepared without reliance upon the atomic bomb, which had not yet been tested in New Mexico. We were planning an intensified sea and air blockade, and greatly intensified strategic air bombing, through the summer and early fall, to be followed on November I by an invasion of the southern island of Kyushu. This would be followed in turn by an invasion of the main island of Honshu in the spring of 1946. The total U. S. military and naval force involved in this grand design was of the order of 5,000,000 men; if all those indirectly concerned are included, it was larger still.
  
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  We estimated that if we should be forced to carry this plan to its conclusion, the major fighting would not end until the latter part of 1946, at the earliest. I was informed that such operations might be expected to cost over a million casualties, to American forces alone.
  
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1. 
   What was the goal of the United States in 1945 in regards to Japan?
   

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  Prompt and complete surrender of Japan and complete destruction of her military
  

1. 
   What possibility was the United States concerned that Japan might carry out?
   

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  Resistance until the very end in all areas under their control
  
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1. 
   According to the passage, had the United States carried out its military plans to defeat Japan without the atomic bomb what were the possible results to the American forces?
   

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  Fighting would have went until the latter part of 1946 at the earliest and cost over a million casualties to the Americans alone
  
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9. 
   Your choice: Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski? Use evidence from the readings to support your answer. (10pts)
   

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  Answer will vary. Students’ answers must pick one side and defend it using evidence from one of the readings. Students are not allowed to fence sit.