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Modern World History—Ms. Galvin
Chapter 16, section 4
THE ALLIED VICTORY
Answer the following questions on chapter 16, section 4 (pages 506-513). You do not need to write your
answers in complete sentences, but make sure that you provide complete answers for each question.
Also, make sure that you don’t simply copy the textbook word-for-word. Put answers in your own words!!!
Setting the Stage…
1. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met at the end of December 1941 to come up with a war
strategy. Stalin wanted the Allies to attack Germany in Western Europe (open a second front to the
west). Why?
The Tide Turns on Two Fronts
2. (a) Where did the US and Britain decide to open the second front?
(b) Why did this decision anger Stalin?
The North African Campaign
3. What happened at the Battle of El Alamein?
4. What was Operation Torch?
The Battle of Stalingrad
5. In summer 1942 Hitler changed his strategy in the Soviet Union. What did he order his armies to do?
6. What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?
7. What was significant about the Battle of Stalingrad?
The Invasion of Italy
8. When did Allied forces invade Sicily?
9. How did Mussolini lose power in Italy?
The Allied Home Fronts
10. How did ordinary Americans help the Allied war effort?
Mobilizing for War
11. How did American industries help the war effort?
12. Since factories were producing war materials, there were shortages of consumer goods. How did the
government respond to these shortages?
War Limits Civil Rights
13. How were Japanese-Americans impacted by America’s entry into World War II?
Victory in Europe
The D-Day Invasion
14. What was Operation Overlord?
15. When was D-Day?
16. What happened on D-Day?
17. Once D-Day was over, what did it allow the Allies to accomplish?
The Battle of the Bulge
18. What was Hitler’s strategy behind the Battle of the Bulge?
19. What were the results of the Battle of the Bulge?
Germany’s Unconditional Surrender
20. What events led to the unconditional surrender of the Germans?
21. When did the war in Europe end?
Victory in the Pacific
The Japanese in Retreat
22. What happened at the Battle of Leyte Gulf (in the Philippines)?
23. (a) What were kamikaze?
(b) Why did the Japanese start using kamikaze?
24. What happened on Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
The Japanese Surrender
25. What was the Manhattan Project?
26. Why did President Truman believe he had to use the A-bombs against Japan?
27. When and where were the A-bombs dropped?
28. What were the effects of the atomic bombs? (look at page 840)
29. When did the Japanese surrender?
Modern World History —Ms. Galvin
Chapter 32, section 5
THE DEVASTATION OF EUROPE AND JAPAN
Answer the following questions on the first part of chapter 32, section 5 (pages 842-845). You do not
need to write your answers in complete sentences, but make sure that you provide complete answers for
each question. Also, make sure that you don’t simply copy the textbook word-for-word. Put answers in
your own words!!!
Setting the Stage…
1. Approximately how many people died as a result of World War II?
Europe in Ruins
A Harvest of Destruction
2. How were the major European cities impacted by World War II?
3. What were the major problems faced by civilians at the end of the war?
Misery Continues After the War
4. Why was it difficult for Europe to rebuild after the war?
Postwar Governments and Politics
5. Why did the Communists gain power in many countries after the war?
An Attempt at Justice: The Nuremberg Trials
6. What crimes were Nazi leaders charged with at the Nuremberg Trials?
7. What were the results of the Nuremberg Trials?
The Effects of Defeat in Japan
The United States Occupies Japan
8. Why (on August 15, 1945) did Emperor Hirohito say that the Japanese should stop fighting the
Allies?
9. Who was Douglas MacArthur?
Demilitarization of Japan
10. What is demilitarization?
11. What major changes were made in Japan after World War II?
12. What was done to help rebuild Japan’s economy after the war?
US Occupation Brings Deep Changes
13. After the Japanese surrendered, the emperor was allowed to stay in power. What changes were
there to the emperor’s power?
14. What were the main provisions of the new Japanese constitution?
15. When did the US occupation of Japan end?