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World War II Final Test Study Guide 2014 The following study guide will help you prepare for the upcoming WWII test. WWII California State Standards: 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II. 1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939. 2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. 3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors. 4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower). 5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians. 6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan. Answer 20 of the first 31 questions on a separate sheet of paper and you can earn up to 10% additional credit on the test. All of these questions are on the test. Good luck, and let me know if you have any questions. 1. Economically, what enabled Japan to become a colonial power after 1894? 2. Who did the Nazis blame most of Germany’s pre- World War II social and economic problems on? 3. How did Stalin’s Great Purge affect Russia’s ability to defend herself when Hitler invaded? 4. What German action finally caused Britain and France to declare war? 5. What position did the United States take as conflict engulfed Europe? 6. Which of these Chinese cities suffered the rape and murder of hundreds of thousands of its residents by invading Japanese troops? 7. Who were the military, political or diplomatic leaders during World War II? 8. For what purpose did the German military use the Spanish Civil War? 9. What was the Germans strategy that included a rapid invasion using both airstrikes and ground forces. 10. In response to German aggression in the 1930s, western democracies followed this policy 11. What was the meeting called where Hitler met European leaders in order to inform them about his desire for some Czechoslovakian land? 12. The land in Czechoslovakia that Hitler acquired in the 1938 meeting with European powers was called what? 13. Thanks to the combined efforts of all military and civilian vessels from the mainland of England, the English were evacuated from France. This retreat was later called. 14. Hitler and Stalin made an agreement of non-aggression (they would not attack one another). They would also divide Poland. What was this agreement called? 15. In 1940 the Germans turned their attention toward Britain. They bombed Britain for 57 nights. What was the consequence of this bombing? 16. Who was the charismatic British Prime Minister elected during the war to replace Neville Chamberlin. 17. Why were Stalin’s purges a factor in early German victories on the Russian Front? 18. Ultimately, Hitler and the Germans were defeated in Russia by what 19. The purpose of this invasion was to place allied forces back on the continent of Europe, open a second war front for the Germans to fight, and ultimately to defeat the Germans. 20. This event brought the Americans into the war on the side of the Allies and against the Axis powers. 21. In an about face from the earlier Neutrality Acts, in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt convinced Congress to approve this act that would allow him to sell or lend war materials to countries at war. This act was called what? 22. This American general was the commander of military operations in the Pacific Theater of the war. 24. The essential American strategy in the Pacific called for 25. The second American atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of 26. The Japanese surrender encouraged by Emporer Hirohito was a response to atomic bombs dropped on these two Japanese cities. 27. After the Japanese had lost many of their most skilled aviators, they began to press into action these fighters willing to sacrifice their lives by flying their planes into enemy targets. These fighters were called what? 28. What does the term Holocaust refer to? 29. Which nation suffered the highest number of casualties in the war? (10.8.6) 30. At what conference did the Allies set the terms for the Japanese surrender? (10.8.3) 31. The main purpose of the Yalta Conference was what? Identify the following terms as they relate to WWII: Appeasement, blitzkrieg, cold war, collaborator, containment (Russia), genocide, kamikaze, pacifism 1. How did appeasement, non-intervention (isolationism) and the Great Depression play roles in the outbreak of WWII? 2. Discuss one of the strategic errors made by Hitler: Allowing Allies out of France, Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion), or Barbarossa. Which one do you think was the worst mistake that Hitler made? Explain. 3. Write an identity for the Holocaust- Who, What, When, Why, Where, How