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UNIT #10 REVIEW WORLD HISTORY (1) Long-term causes of WWII? • Weak League of Nations • Great Depression • Aggressive Dictators • Treaty of Versailles (harsh punishment of Germany) • Weak democratic govts. (2) Why did Japan start taking over places (what did they need)? • Natural resources / raw materials (3) What action did the League of Nations take against aggressor nations? • No action (4) Why did the League of Nations fail? • Unable to enforce decisions (no military authority) (5) Satisfying the demands of aggressor nations is known as the policy of ___. • Appeasement (6) Period of low economic activity & rising unemployment is known as ___. • Depression (7) What caused the Great Depression? • Economic downturn & stock market crash (8) What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans? • Develop heavy industry (9) What did Stalin force peasants to join? • Collective farms (10) Who wrote Mein Kampf? • Adolf Hitler (11) Why did many Germans accept Hitler? • Belief that Hitler had ended Germany’s economic depression (12) What was decided at the Munich Conference? • The French & British persuaded Czechoslovakia to give Sudentenland to Germany (13) The above is an example of what policy? • Appeasement (14) Why did the British & French pursue a policy of appeasement? • To prevent another world war (15) Immediate cause of WWII • Hitler’s invasion of Poland (16) Who made up the Axis Powers? • Germany, Italy, Japan (17) What did the Blitzkrieg use? • Form of attack that used air attacks, followed by tanks and fastmoving soldiers (18) Where did the British evacuate most of their army from France? • Dunkirk (19) How was the US not completely neutral at the beginning of the war? • Provided military aid to Great Britain (Lend-Lease Act) (20) What type of battle was the Battle of Britain? • Air battle involving planes (21) Did the British surrender to the Germans? Which nations surrendered? • No; Belgium, Norway, & France surrendered (22) What did the Japanese do on Dec. 7, 1941? • Launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor (23) Why did Japan attack? • Pearl Harbor was the base for the US Pacific Fleet, which they wanted to destroy (24) Why did the attack on Pearl Harbor fail? • Japanese didn’t completely destroy entire US fleet (25) What was the immediate effect of the attack on Pearl Harbor? • US declares war (26) Half of the deaths at Pearl Harbor happened aboard what ship? • USS Arizona (27) What was “island-hopping”? • US strategy of attacking smaller islands and disrupting supply lines to get closer to Japan (28) What was the turning point for the war in the Pacific? • Battle of Midway Island (29) What did the Allied Powers decide to create at the Tehran Conference? • United Nations (30) What did numerous Japanese soldiers do rather than surrender and why? • Committed suicide (rather than surrender) or fight to the death (causing many US casualties) (31) What three areas did the Allied Powers invade to defeat the Axis? • Africa, Italy, France (32) What country was invaded on D-Day (June 6, 1944)? • France (in Normandy) (33) Why did the US & Britain want to invade Western Europe? • Open up a second front and put the Axis forces on the defensive (34) Russian city under siege for 900 days? • Leningrad (35) Where did the first major defeat of the German army take place? • Battle of Stalingrad (36) What was the turning point for the Soviet Union in the war? • Battle of Stalingrad (37) How were the battles of Stalingrad and Midway similar? • Both were major turning points in the war that shifted power to the Allies (38) What happens to Germany at the end of the war? • Germany is divided among the four main Allied Powers (39) Why did Japan surrender? • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki (40) Why did the US decide to drop the atomic bomb? • Save American & Japanese lives; save time & money (41) Who wins WWII? • Allied Powers (42) What group did the US govt target during the war at home? • Japanese Americans (43) What was the removal of thousands of people of Japanese descent to detention camps known as? • Internment (44) What was Hitler’s Final Solution? • To kill all Jews (45) The slaughter of Jews and other undesirables by the Nazis was known as what? • The Holocaust (46) Who were victims of the Holocaust? • Jews, Gypsies, Slavic peoples (47) What did the Nazis build to kill Jews faster? • Special extermination camps in Poland (48) The US came out of WWII as a ___. • Global superpower