Download American History Study Guide Chapter 23

American History Study Guide Chapter 23
Identifications
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Panay Incident
Nanjing
Senator Nye
Lend Lease Act
Blitzkrieg
Axis
Charles Lindbergh
Winston Churchill
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Britain
Section 1
1. Why did the peace settlement of Versailles unravel?
2. What are the characteristics of a totalitarian government?
3. In what ways were the governments of Italy, Germany, Russia, and the
Soviet Union totalitarian?
4. Why were the European nations unable to stop the growth of the
totalitarian powers?
5. Why did the appeasement policy fail?
Section 2
1. Why was isolationism strong in the United States?
2. What were the provisions of the Neutrality Acts?
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the Neutrality Acts in keeping the US
out of foreign wars.
4. How did the Roosevelt administration respond to Japanese aggression
in China?
5. What are the characteristics of total war?
6. Describe the response of the American people to the invasion of
Poland, the fall of France, submarine warfare, and the attack on
Britain.
7. Describe the interventionalist argument for aid to the Allies at the
beginning of the war. Why did the isolationists disagree with their
ideas?
8. Evaluate the pre-war policies of the Roosevelt administration. Was
Roosevelt authentically neutral, or did he favor China, France, and
Britain in foreign policy decisions?
9. What are the principles of the Atlantic Charter?
Section 3
Identifications
General Tojo
General MacArthur
Doolittle Raid
Battle of Philippines Battle of Coral Sea
War Production Board
1. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
2. How had the trade embargo affected Japan?
3. How did the American people respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
4. In what ways did almost every American citizen become involved in the
war effort?
5. What were the initial successes of the Japanese as they conquered
territories in the Pacific and Indian oceans?
6. How did the government harness the nation’s industry, resources, and
workers to make victory possible?
Chapter 24
Section 1.
Battle of Midway.
General Eisenhower
saturation bombing
Battle of Stalingrad
Casablanca Conference strategic bombing
Guadacanal
1. Why did the Allies agree that the defeat of Germany was their first
priority?
2. How did the Allies defeat the German U-boats?
3. How did the German invasion of the Soviet Union affect the war?
4. Why was the first Allied invasion in North Africa?
5. Why did the Allies invade Italy before invading France?
6. How did the strategic bombing of Germany help defeat the Nazis ?
7. What was the American/British strategy for attacking the Japanese
empire?
Section 2
A. Philip Randolph
Executive Order 8802
NAACP
Korematsu v U.S.
Executive Order 9066
CORE
Bracero Program
Office of War Information
Internment
Korematsu v United States
8 . In what ways did the role and status of women change during WWII?
9. In what ways did the role and status of African Americans improve
during WWII?
10. Why did large numbers of workers migrate to new locations during
WWII? In what ways were Mexican citizens involved in this migration.
11. Why were the civil liberties of Japanese Americans severely limited
during the war? Why were they treated differently in Hawaii?
12. How did the war affect the development of the American economy?
13. In what ways did the government regulate and manage the economy to
support the war effort?
14. In what ways did the government and the media cooperate to build
public support for the war and strengthen public morale?
15. In what ways did the war strengthen the power of the American
government and the president?
Section 3
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Teheran Conference
Normandy Invasion
The Battle of the Bulge Kamikaze
Island Hopping
Manhattan Project
Battle of Philippines
1. Why was there a strong disagreement between the Allied leaders about
the invasion of German occupied Europe?
2. How did the Allies cooperate to defeat Germany?
3. Why was the defeat of Japan a difficult task?
4. Why did the United States decide to use the atomic bomb to attack
Japan?
5. Why did President Truman believe that the use of the atomic bomb was
necessary?
6. Describe the significant technological developments of WWII.
Section 4.
1. Why did the Holocaust occur?
2. Why was anti-Semitism deeply rooted in European (and American)
society?
3. Why did the Nazis try to exterminate the Jewish people? (genocide)
4. Why were the democratic nations unwilling or unable to rescue the
Jewish people?
5. How did the discovery of the concentration camps and the death
chambers change the way modern people think and act?