Friday, May 2, 2014

8th History Objectives for Chapter 24


8th History
Chapter 24 Objectives

Section 1

Describe the rise of dangerous leaders and parties in Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Name the Latin American foreign policy of the United States in the 1930s.

Section 2

Describe German expansion and the policy of appeasement.

Trace Hitler’s successful advances in Europe as the war began.

Describe the Battle of Britain.

Explain the failure of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.

Describe American opinions and policies as the United States watched the war unfold.

Section 3

Name the event that brought the United States into the war.

Describe ways in which Americans went to work for the war effort.

Describe ways in which Americans produced or conserved materials for the war effort.

Explain the “Hitler first” policy.

Trace the Allied operations in North Africa, Italy, and France.

Explain the significance of the Normandy invasion.

Describe the defeat of Germany.

Section IV

Trace the extent of the Japanese advance.

Describe the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.

Explain the American strategy for defeating the Japanese.

Explain the success, or lack thereof, of the kamikaze attacks.

Explain the need for the Manhattan Project.

Name the cities on which atomic bombs were dropped.

Describe the cost of World War II to the United States.