World War II

1. Assess the social and economic causes of WWII.
2. Compare and contrast the causes of WWI and WWII?
3. Assess the long term and short term causes of WWII?
4. Why did the United States become involved in WWII?
5. Compare and Contrast naval warfare in WWI and WWII.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of air power in WWII.
7. To what extent was WWII a total war
8. To what extent did technological developments ensure victory in WWII?
9. Assess the level of mobilization of one homefront during WWII.
10. Assess how one group of American minorities was affected by WWII
11. Assess the social and economic effects of WWII on one nation?
12. Assess the impact of WWII on the economy of the United States.
13. How did WWII effect women in the United States?
14. How did Soviet and Western visions of "the Peace" differ?
15. Analyze the results of WWII
16. What were the short term and long term results of WWII.

Racial Issues

I found an article that I thought was interesting in light of our discussion with Dr. Loewen. Any thoughts?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567120,00.html?test=latestnews

Edit-Fine, let's do this the I.B. way. Five E.C. points for the most insightful comment. I'd offer food, but for many of you, points are more interesting. :-)

Hitler

This unit isn't quite as complex as the Stalin and Mao units, because I really would prefer you to use the two of them for any comparison on the IB test. However, it is possible that you will stumble into a question that makes sense to use Hitler. Additionally, knowledge of Hitler will help you with the WWII questions.


1. Describe the conditions in Germany that led to the rise of the Nazi Party.
2. To what extent did the post-WWI conditions allow Hiter to rise to power as opposed to his own personal skills and ideology.
3. Why was Hitler so gosh darn angry?
4. Describe the propaganda techniques of Adolf
5. To what extent was Hitler able to create total control over Germany.
6. To what extent was Hitler able to eliminate opposition within Germany?
7. To what extent was the domestic policy of Hitler successful?