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Review for Test World War II
Textbook: United States History
Chapter 23 Section 1 (pp. 772-778)
Fascist Aggression in Africa
1. Who was the leader of the Fascist Italian Government ?(Notes & p.732)(p.784)
2. What independent nation did Italy invade in Africa?
Nazi Aggression
3. Who was the leader of Nazi Germany?
4. What was Hitler’s promise to Germany?
5. What area of Czechoslovakia did Germany want and why (p. 778)
Japanese Aggression in Asia (Notes)
6. How did Japan plan to obtain the raw materials necessary to run its industries ?(p.777)
7. What did the League of Nations due stop Japan’s Aggression
8. Who protested Japan’s aggression?(Notes)
The Beginning of WWII
9. What was the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis? (Notes)
10.What country did Germany and Russia invade?
Blitzkrieg (Notes)
11.What is a Blitzkrieg?
12.How was France Divided?
Chapter 23 Section 3 (pp. 788-795)
13.Why did the US ban the export of materials to Japan?
14.Why did the US declare war on Japan and who in return declared war on the US?
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Chapter 24 Section 1 (pp.802-808)
Allied Strategy in Europe
15.Who were the Allied Powers
16.Where did the Russians stop the German army and why?(p.803)
17.What was the name of the largest invasion in modern times?
Allied Strategy in the Pacific
18.What was the Allied Strategy in the Pacific? (Notes)
a. Battle of the Coral Sea
b. Battle of the Stalingrad
c. Pearl Harbor
d. Normandy Invasion
e. Battle of the Bulge
f. Battle of Midway
g. Battle of Leyte Gulf
h. Battle of Okinawa
i. Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Chapter 24 Section 3 (pp. 818-827)
19.What made Japan finally surrender?
The War Against The Jews (pp.828- 833)
20.What was Hitler’s reason to eliminate all European Jews?
21.What is Genocide?
Wartime Diplomacy (Chapter 24 Section 5 (pp.834-839 & Notes)
Yalta Conference February 1945
 United States, Great Britain, Russia
Peace Terms: Divide Germany into Four Sectors or Occupational Zones.
Germany disarmed and its war criminals Punished
 General MacArthur and American troops direct postwar Japan.
Emperor stripped of Power
Create new Economic, Social, and Political System
New Constitution (Democracy)
No Military Forces
Pledge to set up United Nations (UN Charter July 1945)
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