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WWII ESSAY TOPICS
Please Note: You need to form an historical research question
for your topic. The
answer to your question is your thesis statement
1. How and why was Germany allowed to annex Austria and the
Sudetenland? Was there any justificationfor Britain and Frances
policy of appeasement?
2. Discuss the role that Italy played in World War II. How did
the nation become involved in the conflict?How did its
participation affect the direction of the war and Germanys
fortunes?
3. Discuss the issues surrounding the United States decision to
use atomic bombs against Japan. What
motives were behind this action, and what arguments have been
made against it?
4. Explain how the situation in Europe immediately following the
fall of Germany led directly to the ColdWar. In your opinion,
should the Western Allies have acted to oppose Soviet domination of
Eastern
Europe?
5. Consider the role of technology during World War II. Did it
fundamentally affect the outcome of the
war? If so, how? If not, why not?
6. Compare the roles of Germany and Japan during World War II.
Generally speaking, were theiraggressions fundamentally similar or
fundamentally different?
7. Explain Germanys mistakes in Russia and the ways in which
they affected the outcome of the war.
8. Why did the British government give in to German demands
regarding Czechoslovakia in 1938, but
took a relatively firmer stand over Poland in 1939?
9. Compare Soviet and British policies toward Poland between
1943 and 1945, focusing on both aims andoutcomes.
10. Did the nature of German rearmament between 1935 and 1939
support the view that Hitler was
planning for a Blitzkrieg war?
11. Asses and explain whether the internment of Japanese
Canadians justified during World War Two?
12. Discuss the major differences between how the allies treated
Germany after World War Two with
World War One and how it may have been better.
13. Compare the strategic significance of the Battle of
Stalingrad and the Battle of Britain.
14. Discuss Blittzkrieg and the importance of this tactic during
World War Two.
15. Assess and explain the role of women during WWII and compare
them to WWI.
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16. The Second World War had consequences for European society
and the world at large that were every
bit as profound as the changes wrought by World War I. Assess
these consequences as they becameevident in 1945 as the war ended
as well as for the years following from the standpoint of physical
losses
(casualties, refugees, infrastructure, etc.) as well as the
political and territorial settlements in Europe and
the world at large.
17. To what extent were the Germans people responsible for
Hitler/ Holocaust.
18. Compare WWI to WWII, identifying similarities in the causes,
development, and outcomes of thewars.
Other topics to consider
Appeasement (WLM King)
Isolationism
The Treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations (failure of)
Dieppe
D-Day (Juno Beach)
Liberation of Holland
Dunkirk (evacuation of)
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Atlantic
Role of Technology / Canadian war production
Anti-Semitism in Canada
Internment of Japanese Canadians
War on the homefront War production / Changing role of women
TOPIC LIST
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Blitzkreig
The Battle of the Atlantic
Women's Royal Canadian
Naval Service (Wrens)
Lebensraum
The Brtsh Commonwealth Air Training Plan Canadian Womens
Auxiliary Airforce
Occupation of the Rhineland
Camp X
The Munich Pact
Cdn Womens Army Corps
D-Day
The Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
The Battle for Normandy
Canadian War Brides
Dunkirk
Treaty of Versailles The Royal Cdn Air Force
Wm. L. Mackenzie King
War on the Homefront
War Propaganda
The Home Front
General Guy Simonds
Canada and the Italian Campaign
Conscription
The Scheldt Estuary
The Internment of Japanese Canadians
Liberation of the Netherlands
Canada and Hong Kong
Juno Beach
The Battle of the Atlantic
VE Day
Dieppe
Verrieres Ridge
