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Unit Six Study Guide – U.S. History – Pre and Post World War II
Part One: World War Looms (Ch. 16)
Joseph Stalin
Totalitarian
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Adolf Hitler
Nazism
Neutrality Acts
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Appeasement
Nonaggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Charles de Gaulle
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Genocide
Concentration Camp
Axis Powers
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Allies
Hideki Tojo
Short Answer
1) What were Stalin’s goals and what steps did he take to achieve them? What actions taken
by the League of Nations revealed its inability to control the aggressive moves of Japan,
Germany, and Italy?
2) Which nations formed the Axis Powers? What were the military implications of the
Tripartite Pact for the United States? What congressional measures paved the way for the
entry of the United States in World War II? Why did the United States enter World War
II?
Part Two: U.S. in World War II (Ch. 17)
George Marshall
A. Philip Randolph
Nisei
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
War Production Board (WPB)
Rationing
Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day
George Patton
Harry S. Truman
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Kamaikaze
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Yalta Conference
United Nations (UN)
Nuremberg Trials
GI Bill of Rights
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Short Answer
1) How did the U.S. military reflect the diversity of American society during World War II?
How did World War II affect life on the home front? How did the federal government’s
action influence civilian life during World War II?
2) How did the U.S. economy change during World War II? What events show the
persistence of racial tension during World War II?