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World History Questions
Chapter 16, Section 2: Japan’s Pacific Campaign
1. When and where did Japanese expansion
begin?
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2. Why did Japan feel it needed to take over
European colonies in Southeast Asia?
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3. Why did Admiral Yamamoto believe the U.S.
fleet in Pearl Harbor had to be destroyed?
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4. What event on December 7, 1941 caused the
U.S. to enter WWII? What did President
Roosevelt famously call that day?
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5. Name six places (islands or countries) that
were under Japanese control at the height of
their empire in 1942.
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6. What slogan did Japan use to try to gain the
support of Asian countries before resorting to
violent takeover? What can you infer from this
about the attitude of many Asians towards
European colonization?
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7. Give one example of the cruel treatment of
POWs (prisoners of war) by the Japanese. Why
did the Japanese treat prisoners so harshly?
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8. Although Doolittle bombings of 1942 did little
damage to Japanese cities, they were
nevertheless important psychologically. Why?
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9. In what way did the battle of Coral Sea begin a
new type of naval warfare?
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10. What battle turned the tide in the Pacific war
in favor of the Americans and her allies?
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11. How many aircraft carriers did Japan lose
from June 4-7, 1942? How were they sunk?
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12. What General led the American war effort in
the Pacific? What did he famously say when the
Philippines fell to the Japanese in 1941?
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13. What was General Douglas MacArthur’s
island hopping strategy?
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14. Where did begin his offensive against the
Japanese? Why did he choose that place?
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15. Why was it difficult for the Japanese to build
and then hold on to its vast Pacific empire?
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World History Questions
Chapter 16, Section 3: The Holocaust
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1. According to Nazi racial theory, what people were
the superior “master race” and what people were
inferior?
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2. Define: Holocaust
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3. Did the hatred of Jews start with Hitler or did he
tap into a hatred that was already there?
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4. Name three ways the German government limited
the rights of Jews around 1935.
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5. What are the German and English names for the
events of November 9, 1938 in Germany?
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6. What three types of Jewish buildings did German
storm troopers attack during this event?
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7. What was Hitler’s first solution to the “Jewish
problem?
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8. What did France, Britain and the U.S. do that
made it hard for Jews to escape Nazi Germany?
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9. What did Hitler hope would happen to the Jews
that he herded like animals into ghettos?
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10. What was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?
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11. What other groups besides the Jews did the Nazis
label inferior and target for extermination?
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12. What did Hitler’s SS do to Eastern European and
Russian Jews captured on the Eastern Front?
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13. What did the Germans do in 1942 as the last
stage of Hitler’s plan to eliminate the Jews?
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14. What was the difference between concentration
camps and extermination camps?
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15. How were the Nazis able to kill thousands of Jews
at a time at Auschwitz without any resistance from
their victims?
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16. What did Ella Gartner and Roza Robota do?
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17. In what country was 85% of the prewar Jewish
population (almost 3 million Jews) killed?
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18. How many total Jews were killed by the Nazis?
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19. Summarize Elie Wiesel’s quote in 4 words.
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