AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH

FOCUS QUESTIONS 1. List all the countries, and partial countries thereof, that were conquered by the Nazis. 2. What was the nickname for the period between the fall of Poland and France? 3. What were the provisions of the Atlantic Charter? 4. What were some of the problems between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union before the end of World War II 5. What agreements came out of the Yalta Conference? 6. How do you account for the mass movement of the European population between 1939 and 1950? 7. What were some of the attributes of the Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.? 8. What did Churchill mean in his “Iron Curtain” speech? 9. What soured the relationship between the West and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference? 10. Which nations remained powerful enough to influence world affairs after World War II? 11. What did the Allies do to German cities during World War II? 12. Why is the invasion of “fortress Europe” significant? 13. Which battles helped turn the advantage in the war from the Axis to the Allies? 14. During what year did the Axis powers control almost all of Europe and North Africa? 15. What is the “Miracle at Dunkirk”?