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World History WWII Study Guide Name__________________________ Directions: Answer each question correctly to receive extra credit points. 1. What 2 countries did Japan invade that broke most of the treaties that Japan had signed? Manchuria and China 2. In what Chinese city did the Japanese murder 300,000 people? Nanjing 3. What 3 countries did Germany take over breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact? Poland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland 4. What term refers to giving in to some of the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace? Give an example. Appeasement: The non aggression pact, the Sudetenland- the British and the French let Germany take it, and the Rhineland 5. Identify and explain 2 examples of how Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles in his rise to power? Rebuilt the Army, Navy and Air force, Moved troops into the Rhineland, Annexed Austria, Sudetenland 6. Identify and explain 3 causes of World War 2. Problems from WW1-Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression Rise of Dictatorships-Italy, Germany, Soviet Union Aggressive Nations- Japan in Manchuria/China, Italy in Ethiopia/Albania, Germany in Austria and Czechoslovakia 7. What does “Blitzkrieg” mean? Explain what it is. Lightning War. German style of fighting which involved speed and coordination between tanks and infantry forces. 8. What country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany? Why did they both sign it? Soviet Union: It was made to divide up Poland and also allowed Germany to remain aggressive 9. What type of government did Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union have? Totalitarian 10. What 3 countries made up the Axis powers? Who were their leaders? Germany: Adolf Hitler Italy: Benito Mussolini Japan: Hideki Tojo and Hirohito 11. For each battle below, identify who won and why it was important: Allies won, it began the land invasion in Europe Battle of Britain: Britain won, Germany failed to conquer Great Britain D-Day: U.S. won, it was the turning point in the Pacific and 6 months after Pearl Harbor Midway: Allies won, it kept the supply line to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. open Battle of Atlantic: Soviets won, it was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe and civilians weren’t allowed to leave Stalingrad: December 7, 1941: Japan won, it got the U.S. to enter the war Pearl Harbor (Date): 12. What was the Holocaust? What is meant by Hitler’s “Final Solution”? Holocaust: during the war over 6 million Jews died in camps Final Solution: the overall execution of Jews 13. What other groups did the Nazi’s arrest, imprison and exterminate? The Poles, Slavs, homosexuals, people with disabilities, and Gypsies 14. Who were the Aryan races that Hitler spoke of? The ideal pure blood German with blonde hair and blue eyes 15. What 2 cities did the U.S. drop Atomic bombs on? Hiroshima and Nagasaki 16. What is a Kamikaze? Why did the Japanese use them? A Suicide pilot for Japan. They had no other way to win the war and it was an honorable death. 17. What were the Nuremberg Laws? They were laws passed that legalized discrimination against Jews in Germany. 18. What country lost the most military during WWII? Soviet Union 19. What is propaganda? Give an example of propaganda used by the U.S. and Japan. It is information designed to get you to believe something. (Think the thought and act the act) U.S.-Portrayed them as monkeys/own words Japan- Internment camps/Skull 20. Describe a Fascist government. Italy and Germany were Fascist. Focus on the good of the state and not the individual. Dictatorships/Ideology/Propaganda/Miliaristic