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World War II Assignment
Chapter 24 and 25
SSUSH 18e, 19
Identify/Define/Answer
1. Identify Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini as the leaders of their respective countries in
the 1930s. How did each seize power?
2. Who were the Axis Powers?
3. What was the appeasement policy and why did it fail?
4. Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931, and why did many nations, including the U.S., oppose this
action?
5. Neutrality Acts
6. cash and carry
7. What was the effect of Germany’s invasion of Poland (September 1939) on the United States?
8. America First Committee
9. Lend Lease Act
10. December 7, 1941 and December 8, 1941
11. Selective Service and Training Act
12. Office of War Mobilization
13. How did U.S. entry into World War II benefit American workers?
14. Office of Price Administration – two primary functions
15. war-time rationing
16. What was the significance of the following: the battle of Midway, the D-Day invasion, and the fall of
Berlin? Tell at least where, when, who, and the results of each.
17. Yalta Conference – participants and results (also see p. 869 – important!)
18. island hopping
19. Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project
20. Why did President Truman ultimately make the decision to use the atomic bombs on two Japanese
cities?
21. Relate the terms in the following sets to each other in 2-3 sentences:
a) A. Phillip Randolph-Executive Order 8802-Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
b) Executive Order 9066-Japanese Internment-Korematsu v. United States (1944)
c) Working Women-Rosie the Riveter-National War Labor Board