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Chapter 16-17 Study Guide
United States History
Mr. Cicerchi
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Spanish Civil War
Rise of Fascism in Germany, Italy, Japan
Rise of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union
Importance of Remilitarization the Rhineland and Acquisition of the Sudetenland
Neutrality Acts and U.S. Isolationism
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg in Poland and the start of WWII in Europe
The Fall of France (including the oh-so-brilliant Maginot Line and the “Phony War”)
The Holocaust
Hitler’s Final Solution
Hideki Tojo’s Aggression in Manchuria and the Panay Incident (“U.S. punched in the face”)
The Lend-Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
Selective Service Act
GI Bill
Women’s Contribution to the War Effort
Rationing
Importance of North Africa during World War II
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Fall of Mussolini
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Liberation of Death Camps
Hitler’s suicide
V-E Day
Role of the Philippines in WWII and the Bataan Death March
Importance of General Douglas MacArthur
Importance of the Battle of Midway
Kamikaze Attacks
Battle at Iwo Jima (and Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima)
Manhattan Project
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Immediate and Long Range Causes and Effects of World War II
Yalta Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Japanese Internment