Discussion Questions for 4 May

1. WW II in Europe: You've now heard all sides of the debate over who is most to blame for encouraging Nazi aggression in Europe. Who do you think is the most guilty and why?



2. WW II in Asia: Who do you think is most responsible for the Pacific war and why?



3. Do you believe that either the war in Europe or the war in Asia was preventable? Should the Versailles Treaty have been even harsher toward Germany? Should the US have appeased Japan?



4. Are there any general lessons for preventing future war that one can draw from both the war in Europe and the war in Asia? If so, what are they?

Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Collective Security
Weimar Republic
Lebensraum
"Avalanche" theory
Blitzkreig
Manstein's war plan
Ewald Banse
Mein Kampf
Mussolini
Occupation of the Rhineland, March 7, 1936
Anschluss, March 1938
Munich, September 8, 1938
Sudetenland
Little Entente
Chamberlain
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, August 23, 1939
F. D. Roosevelt
Neutrality Laws, 1935-1939
September 1, 1939
June 22, 1941
Maginot Line
Tripartite Pact
The Holocaust
Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners
Utley v. Heinrichs
ABCD encirclement
The "China Incident"
Manchuria/Manchukuo
Dean Acheson
Saburo Ienaga