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World War II Homework
1. How did World War I and the Versailles Treaty sow the seeds of World War II?
2. What were the basic beliefs of fascism? of Nazism?
3. How did fascism differ from communism?
4. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria in 1931?
5. Why were Americans supporting a neutral position in the 1930s regarding the growing political and
military tensions in Europe?
6. What was lebensraum? What moves did Hitler make to support this Germany policy?
7. Why did Neville Chamberlain believe that he had accomplished "Peace in our times" after he returned
from Munich in 1938? Why was he wrong in this assessment?
8. Why did Stalin and Hitler become allies in the summer of 1939?
9. How was blitzkrieg an effective military weapon for the Germans?
10. Why did Prime Minister Churchill say of the RAF?: Never have so many owed so much to so few?
11. What groups did the Nazis feel were unfit to belong to the Aryan "master race?"
12. What were the goals of the Nazis' "Final Solution?"
13. How did the Lend-Lease program work?
14. What problems did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor solve for FDR? What new problems did this
event create?
15. How did the U. S. military reflect the diversity of American society during World War II?
16. How did the nation's industries and workers mobilize for the war effort?
17. What was the difference between the Issei and the Nisie? Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt order
the internment of Japanese-Americans in early 1942?
18. Identify some of the economic regulations imposed on the American people by the
during World War II.
U.S. government
19. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a great turning point of the war in Europe?
20. What was the cost of victory for the Soviets at Stalingrad?
21. What strategy did the U. S. use in fighting the Japanese in the Pacific?
22. What were the pros and cons concerning the dropping of bombs on Japanese cities in August, 1945?
23. What decisions did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin make at the Yalta Conference?
World War II Homework
Identify and Define
1. Stalin
2. purges
6. 3rd Reich
7. Manchukuo
8 Anschluss
11. Churchill
12. appeasement
13. Battle of Britain
16. SS
17. Kristallnacht
21. Hideki Tojo
3. Mussolini
4. Der Fuhrer
18. Auschwitz
22. December 7, 1941
5. Mein Kampf
9. Sudetenland
10. Chamberlain
14. Luftwaffe
19. Axis Powers
23. Rosey the Riveter
20. Allied Powers
24. Manhattan Project
25. General Eisenhower
26. General Patton
27. D-Day
29. General MacArthur
30. Baatan Death March
31. Battle of Guadalcanal
32. Tuskegee Airmen
33. Japanese Tanaka Plan
35. Japanese Internment Camps
15. R.A.F.
28. Battle of Bulge
34. Warsaw Ghetto