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World War II Study Guide
1. What new militant political movement emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leaders?
2. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism after
WWI?
3. What was the purpose of propaganda during WWII?
4. What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany during WWII?
5. What advantage did the German Blitzkrieg depend on?
6. What event occurred on the day described as “a date which will live in infamy?
7. Which of the following was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials?
8. What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
9. With whom did the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression pact in 1939?
10. What was the Allies’ plan for victory over the Nazis?
11. Why did President Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
12. Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
13. What was Hitler’s plan to rid the world of Jews?
14. Who was the Prime Minister of England during World War II?
15. What were quick, sudden attacks that take the enemy by surprise?
16. What is the extermination of an entire race or people?
17. Who was the Allied Commander in the Pacific?
18. Who was the Fascist leader of Italy?
19. What were Japanese suicide pilots called?
20. What event dealt with those guilty of war crimes?
21. What occurred on D-Day?
22. What was the main target of the kamikazes?
23. What did the Allies strategy of island hopping in the Pacific involve?
24. What is one major reason the Holocaust is considered a unique event in modern European history?
25. What was the goal of Hitler’s Final Solution?
26. What event resulted in the U.S. entering World War II?
27. Which battle was the turning point in favor of Soviet Russia? (Soviet Union pushes back and Germany is
now on the defensive.)
28. Which battle was a last ditch effort by Germans to stop the Allied Forces from moving into Germany?
29. Which battle saw the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy, France and then moving on towards
Germany?
30. Which battle was the German blitzkrieg of London?
31. Which nation paid the greatest price in terms of the number of lives lost during the war?
32. What does fascism stress?
33. What was the policy of appeasement?
34. Why did Hitler blame the Jewish population for all of Germany’s troubles?
35. Why were Japanese Americans forced into internment camps?
36. What was the Manhattan Project?
37. Why did Hitler have to call off the invasion of Britain?
38. What was Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass”?
39. What was the purpose of the ghettos in Germany?
40. Why did Truman decide to drop the Atom Bomb?
1. Fascism
2. Nazi
3. to persuade the public by keeping up morale and support for the war
4. the German invasion of Poland
5. Surprise and overwhelming force
6. the attack on Pearl Harbor
7. The Holocaust
8. the extermination of people the Nazis considered inferior
9. Germany
10. Surround Germany and make them fight multiple fronts
11. To bring the war to the quickest possible end and save American lives
12. Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. The Final Solution
14. Winston Churchill
15. Blitzkrieg
16. Genocide
17. Douglas MacArthur
18. Benito Mussolini
19. Kamikazes
20. Nuremberg Trials
21. the Allied invasion of France
22. ships
23. attacks only on islands that were not well-defended
24. The genocide was planned in great detail and required the cooperation of many people.
25. It was genocide of people the Nazis considered to be inferior.
26. Pearl Harbor
27. Stalingrad
28. The Battle of the Bulge
29. D-Day
30. The Battle of Britain
31. Soviet Union
32. nationalism
33. the British and French decision to give into aggression to keep peace
34. Hatred of the Jews, or anti-Semitism, was a key part of Nazi ideology.
35. the U.S. government feared some were traitors and spies for the Japanese government
36. the development of the atomic bomb
37. The British RAF showed him they were not giving up.
38. a violent attack on the Jewish community
39. Hitler hoped the Jews would die of disease and starvation
40. He thought it would save lives in the end.