Instructions
Students will prepare an analytical annotated bibliography consisting of a minimum of six sources.
Analysis: Your analysis will consist of five major areas:
1. Introduction/Geographic and Historical Factors: What aspects of geography influenced your nations participation in the war? What historical ties or antagonisms contributed to your participation? What recent national history, particularly in the 25 years prior to the war led to participation in WWII? Geographic issues such as contested borders, unique natural resources, access to critical sea lanes, ground transportation systems etc.
Political Factors: What was your nation’s pre-war form of government? Was it stable? Unstable? What were the major political parties? Who were the leaders of your country at the beginning of the war? At the end? What nations were your allies? What, if any, had been the major impacts of the FIRST World War been on the country? In what ways may political issues have contributed to your participation? If occupied, describe any government in exile, or collaborationist government.
Social and Economic Factors: Assess the social structure of your nation. Were there frictions between ethnic or religious groups? What type of economy did your nation have? What were the major economic resources or industries which may have influenced your nations participation? If your nation was a colony of another power at the time of the war, were there independence or nationalist movements? If your nation had previously been the territory of another nation, were there lingering ethnic or political frictions? What impact had the recent Global Depression had on the country, if any?
Military Strength and Capabilities: Describe your armed forces at the time that war broke out for your nation. How big were they? Key military leaders? What was their level of modernization? Did they have a particular advantage or disadvantage? What significant actions did they participate in? What was their status by the end of the war? Losses? If your nation was overrun/occupied, did they continue to resist or contribute to the Allied or Axis cause? How?
Significant Outcomes/Conclusions: Identify at least four significant outcomes for your nation due to your participation in the war. Focus on the post-war period of about twenty-five years from the end of hostilities for your nation. Did your borders change? How did they change? Did your political system change? How? Did your political alignments change? How? Were there major changes in your social or economic structures? What were they? What were your nation’s civilian and military losses in the war? In summary: What was your relative influence, power, and condition in the world at the end of the war, as compared to the outbreak of hostilities for the nation.
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