Download World War II Study Guide

American History Spring
World War II Study Guide
How to use the Study Guide:
 Each night, refer back to your notes or activities completed in class. Compare these to information on the study
guide. Create a system to organize and study the information, such as:
o Highlighting
o Color coding
o Note cards
o Graphic organizers
o Or any other ideas that work for you
 Use the study guide as a self-testing tool before tests and quizzes. You will have a quiz on each “Part” of the study
guide, and a final test on the entire study guide.
 At the end of the unit you will have a writing assignment. Look back at the study guide for additional ideas you
might want to include on your essay.
Big Questions: (These could be essay questions you will need to answer on your test.)
1. Describe the causes of WWII and the US decision to enter the war.
2. Explain the US mobilization for WWII and why it was accomplished so quickly.
3. Compare and contrast Japanese Internment camps in the US to Nazi Concentration camps in German held
territory.
4. Analyze the results of the Yalta Conference and WWII.
Part I: War Comes Overseas
People:
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Vocabulary:
appeasement
fascism
totalitarianism
Holocaust
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Emperor Hirohito
genocide
anti-Semitism
Final Solution
Blitzkrieg
General Tojo
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Munich Pact
Escalation
NAZI
Annex
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Concepts:
 Effects of world-wide depression in the 1930s prior to World War II
 German invasion of Poland
 Reaction of world to problems Jews faced in Germany
 Japanese actions prior to 1941
Part 2: War Comes to the U.S.
People:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vocabulary:
Lend-Lease Act
Nisei
code talkers
Rosie the Riveter
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Office of War Mobilization
isolationism
Pearl Harbor
Japanese internment
mobilize
Concepts:
 Reasons for and examples of U.S. isolationism in the beginning of World War I
 U.S. views towards Japanese people after Pearl Harbor,
 Effect of World War II on the U.S. economy
 U.S. measures to control inflation and provide military supplies
 Contributions and experiences of minorities and women during World War II
Part 3: The U.S./Allied Military Campaigns and Conclusions to War
People:
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer
Vocabulary:
D-Day
Island Hopping
V-E Day
V-J Day
Harry S. Truman
Montgomery
George Patton
Albert Einstein
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Holocaust
Manhattan Project
Nuremberg Trials
Concepts:
 Two theaters of war during World War II
 Uniqueness of World War II
 Leaders and their positions and promises at Yalta
 Results of World War 2
 Location of United Nations
 Good and bad aspects of World War II