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VOCABULARY(31)
Appeasement
Munich Pact
Mein Kampf
Militarism
Allied Powers
Lend-Lease Act
Zoot Suit Riots
U-boats
Incendiary Bomb Island Hopping
Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb
GI Bill of Rights Fat Man
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
Totalitarianism
Puppet Government
Axis Powers
Executive Order 9066
Saturation Bombing
P.O.W.
Little Boy
Bataan Death March
Fascism
Nazism
Blitzkrieg
Rationing
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
Precision Bombing Genocide
Holocaust
Kamikaze
United Nations
Trinity
Enola Gay
Korematsu v. United States
Battles and Dates
Europe (20)
September 1, 1939
Invasion of France
June 22, 1940
Battle of Stalingrad
April 12, 1945
Invasion of Norway
Dunkirk
December 11, 1941
June 6, 1944
April 30, 1945
Pacific (22)
Pearl Harbor
Bataan Death March
Battle of the Coral Sea
Iwo Jima
August 8, 1945
August 15, 1945
December 7, 1941
Doolittle Raid
Solomon Islands
Okinawa
August 9, 1945
September 2, 1945
Invasion of Denmark
Invasion of Belgium
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Atlantic
November 1942
July 1943
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
May 8, 1945
Invasion of the Netherlands
December 8, 1941
Fall of Burma
Leyte Gulf
July 16, 1945
Hiroshima
Philippines
Midway
Mariana Islands
August 6, 1945
Nagasaki
People (14)
Neville Chamberlain
Hideki Tojo
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Robert Oppenheimer
Chester Nimitz
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur James Doolittle
QUESTIONS
1. How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to World War II?
2. How did the Great Depression help lead to World War II?
3. How did the rise of dictators in countries like Germany, Russia, and Japan, eventually lead
to World War II?
4. Describe in detail how Stalin came to power in Russia.
5. Describe in detail how Mussolini came to power in Italy.
6. Describe in detail how Hitler came to power in Germany.
7. What were the main ideas behind Fascism?
8. What does NAZI stand for?
9. What were the main ideas behind Nazism?
10. What book did Hitler write, and what did he say in it?
11. Why did Japan argue that it needed to expand its territory?
12. Where did Japan seek to expand its territory first?
13. Why did Japan say it needed to expand its territory?
14. During the 1930’s how did Hitler and Germany violate the Treaty of Versailles?
15. What Fascist dictator did Italy and Germany support during the Spanish Civil War?
16. Why did the allies, especially England adopt a policy of Appeasement when it came to
Germany’s aggressiveness before World War II?
17. When and with what event did World War II start?
18. During the German invasion of Poland what did Hitler agree to do with the Russians?
19. What does Blitzkrieg mean in English?
20. What happened at Dunkirk in 1940?
21. How did Germany go about attacking England during 1940 and 1941?
22. How did U-boats “hunt” in the Atlantic?
23. What did the United States do to Japan that made Japan thin of the United States as
their main enemy in the Pacific?
24. When was Pearl Harbor attacked and what did this mean for the United States?
25. What countries mad up the Axis Powers?
26. What countries made up the Allied Powers?
27. What country did Germany attack in June 1941?
28. When and where did U.S. troops first fight the Germans and Italians?
29. Why did the Allies first attack the Axis in Africa and then Sicily and Italy?
30. Why is the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943 considered a turning point in the war?
31. Explain the two types of bombing used during World War II.
32. What is a bomb called that starts fires rather then blowing up?
33. What happened on June 6, 1944?
34. What happened during the Battle of the Bulge?
35. When did Hitler commit suicide?
36. When was V-E Day?
37. What islands in the Pacific were American troops driven out of in early 1942?
38. What was the effect of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo?
39. Describe the American strategy for fighting the war I the Pacific.
40. Why was Burma falling to the Japanese in May 1942 a problem for the Chinese?
41. What happened at the Battle of the Coral Sea?
42. Why was Midway considered a turning point of the Pacific War?
43. Explain how a Kamikaze attack worked.
44. Why were the Mariana Islands important?
45. How many Japanese prisoners were taken on Iwo Jima?
46. What was Iwo Jima used for after it was taken form the Japanese?
47. What was the name of the project to build the Atomic Bomb?
48. What two Japanese cities were Atomic Bombs used on?
49. About how many people died worldwide as a result of World War II?
50. What does Genocide mean?
51. What was the Holocaust?
52. How many Jews died during the Holocaust?
53. What other groups of people were singled out by the Nazis for persecution?
54. How did rationing on the Home Front help with the war effort?
55. How did the U.S. government pay for the war?
56. Why did American soldiers become known as “GI’s”?
57. Who went to work building weapons while the men went off to fight?
58. How were races organized in the military?