Study Questions-Lecture/Reading, Bulliet 792-8

1. Why was World War II a war of movement?

2. What role did propaganda play in the war? Why did new technologies make propaganda more effective?

3. Why were so many people killed in World War II?

4. Why was the Russian campaign the turning point in the war for Germany?

Study Questions Reading, Kim 87-142

1. How did the Japanese occupation affect the Korean economy during wartime?

2. Why did the Koreans "lose" their names? How did they react? Why does the author consider the names to be lost and not stolen?

3. Why does the boy cry at the end of the chapter, "An Empire for Rubber Balls"?

4. At one point the boy thinks to himself that the Japanese are all alike. (p. 130) Is this true? Is it true of Koreans?

5. How did the Japanese use propaganda toward the Koreans? How effective was it?