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World War II Study Items
Date: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Date: Battle of Britain
Date: Battle of Midway
Date: Battle of the Bulge
Date: D-Day invasion of Normandy
Date: Doolittle Raid
Date: Germany's surrender date (V-E Day)
Date: Italy's surrender date
Date: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Date: Japan's surrender date (V-J Day)
Date: Miracle of Dunkirk
Date: Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Date: the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union
Did President Roosevelt initially support the policy of isolationism?
How did Fascists and Nazis feel about Communists?
Omaha--what is its significance in World War II?
What countries belonged to the Allied Powers?
What countries belonged to the Axis Powers?
What damage did Japan do to the American fleet at Pearl Harbor?
What is napalm and how is it relevant to World War II?
What position did General Dwight D. Eisenhower hold during WWII?
What position did General George Patton hold during WWII--what battle is he most associated with?
What role did Admiral Chester Nimitz have in World War II?
What role did General Douglas MacArthur have in World War II? (“I shall return.”)
What role did women play in the American military?
What two governments "appeased" Hitler?
What was decided at the Munich Conference--and who attended?
What was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was Kristallnacht?
What was Operation Overlord?
What was Operation Torch?
What was the "final solution" and when/where was it decided upon?
What was the "Miracle of Dunkirk"?--what was Hitler's mistake?
What was the Bataan Death March and where did it occur?
What was the Battle of the Bulge? What was its result?
What was the bloodiest battle in World War II?
What was the Doolittle Raid--and what did they do--and where?
What was the Double V campaign?
What was the fate of Adolf Hitler?
What was the name of the American program to build the atomic bomb--and who led the group?
What was the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact and when was it signed?
What was the result of the Battle of Stalingrad--where did it occur?
What was the significance of the Battle of Kasserine Pass and where did it take place?
What were some of the causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I?
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
What were the various Neutrality Acts and what was their purpose?
When did President Roosevelt begin to try to give aid to Britain?--Why?
When did President Roosevelt die?
When were German concentration camps liberated by Allied forces?
When were the North African battles fought? Who was defeated by whom?
Where did D-Day take place?
Where was Danzig--and why did Hitler demand its return?
Where was the Battle of Guadalcanal fought and who won?
Which Allied country had more combat casualities in WWII?
Which country had more combat casualties in WWII?
Which war had more casualties--WWI or WWII?
Which war was over first--the European war or the Pacific war?
Who participated in the Battle of Midway--who won and why did they win?
Who succeeded President Roosevelt as president when he died in April of 1945?
Who was General Omar Bradley--and what battle is he most associated with?
Who was Josef Stalin?
Who was Winston Churchill?
Who were the Tuskeegee Airmen?
Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany?
Why did Japan invade Manchuria?