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TAKE HOME DBQ WORLD HISTORY PRE-APChapter 24 & Chapter 26 World War II Mr. Duez

Compare and Contrast the two major theatres of war during World War II. How waswar different in Asia as compared to the war in Europe?

Use the documents below and your understanding of World War II to help you answerthe question.

DOCUMENT A:I found it more difficult to go back each time we squared away our gear to move forward into the zoneof terror And it wasnt just dread of death or pain, because most men felt somehow they wouldnt bekilled Each time we went up, I felt the sickening dread of fear itself and the revulsion at the ghastlyscenes of pain and suffering among comrades that a survivor must witness. The increasing dread ofgoing back into action obsessed me. It became the subject of the most tortuous and persistent of allthe ghastly war nightmares that have haunted me for many, many years. The dream is always thesame, going back up to the lines during the bloody month of May on Okinawa.

SOURCE: Eugene Sledge: Memoir excerpts selections from "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu andOkinawa."

DOCUMENT B (right):SOURCE: "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima",

by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press.

DOCUMENT C (below):SOURCE: D-Day Allies Invasion Map

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DOCUMENT D:"I shall return!"SOURCE: American General Douglass MacArthur, following defeat in the Philippines

DOCUMENT E:SOURCE: Photograph of the atomic

bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

DOCUMENT F:HITLER SENDS GERMAN TROOPS INTO RHINELAND

Berlin, March 7- Germany today cast off the last shackles fastened upon her by the Treaty of Versailleswhen Adolf Hitler, as commander-in-chief of the Reich defense forces, sent his new battalions into theRhineland's demilitarized zone....

"After three years of ceaseless battle," Hitler concluded, "I look upon this day as marking theclose of the struggle for German equality status and with that re-won equality the path is nowclear for Germany's return to European collective cooperation."SOURCE:The New York Times, March 8, 1936 (adapted)

DOCUMENT G:By twos and threes, the Company K men forming the front line eased onto a barren, muddy,

shell-torn ridge named Half Moon Hill and into the foxholes of the company we were relieving.Itwas the most ghastly corner of hell I had ever witnessedThe place was choked with the putrefactionof death, decay and destruction. In a shallow defilade to our rightlay about twenty dead Marines,each on a stretcher and covered to his ankles with a poncho but as I looked out I saw that otherMarine dead couldnt be tended properly. Every crater was half full of water, and many of them held aMarine corpse. The bodies lay pathetically just as they had been killed, half submerged in muck and

water, rusting weapons still in hand. Everywhere lay Japanese corpses, killed in the fighting. Swarmsof big flies hovered above themFor several feet around every corpse, maggots crawled about in themuck I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool.

SOURCE: Eugene Sledge: Memoir excerpts selections from "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu andOkinawa."

DOCUMENT H:SOURCE: Japanese kamikaze pilots before takeoffand in flight.

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DOCUMENT I:SOURCE: American infantrymen of the 290th Regiment fight in fresh snowfall near Amonines, Belgium4 January 1945Braun, USA

DOCUMENT J:SOURCE: Excerpt from Chapter One, Sacred Ground from the bookFlags of Our Fathers, By James Bradley

with Ron Powers Pub. Date: August 2006

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know --Harry Truman

In the spring of 1998 six boys called to me from half a century ago on a distant mountain, and Iwent there. For a few days I set aside my comfortable life--my business concerns, my life inRye, New York--and made a pilgrimage to the other side of the world, to a tiny Japanese islandin the Pacific Ocean called Iwo Jima.

There, waiting for me, was the mountain the boys had climbed in the midst of a terrible battlehalf a century earlier. The Japanese called the mountain Suribachi, and on its battle-scarredsummit the boys raised an American flag to symbolize our country's conquest of that volcanicisland, even though the fighting would rage for another month.

One of those flag raisers was my father.

DOCUMENT K (Newspaper on right):SOURCE: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, December 7, 1941

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DOCUMENT L:SOURCE: General Dwight D. EisenhowersOrder of the Day, June 6, 1944.

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DOCUMENT N:

(Document N information) Visitors walk through the entrance gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration campin Oswiecim, southern Poland. The phrase 'Arbeit Macht Frei is German for 'Work Sets You Free.

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Holborn Circus in London burns at the height of theBlitz. London was bombed on 76 consecutive nightsas part of the Battle of Britain campaign by theGerman airforce during 1940.