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World War II/Post WWII Exam Study Guide Lebensraum appeasement Rhineland Munich Conference Blitzkrieg phony war Dunkirk Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Battle of Britain Pearl Harbor North Africa Campaign Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Midway Operation Barbarossa Battle of Stalingrad Final Solution Einsatzgruppen Manhattan Project Cold War Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Domino Theory NATO Warsaw Pact Mutually Assured Destruction Bay of Pigs Berlin Wall Chiang Kai-­‐shek Pan Arabism Gamal Abdul Nasser Mahatma Gandhi Destalinization Konrad Adenauer Common Market Existentialism 1. In what ways did the British government see Nazi Germany as a useful tool in European affairs? 2. What territories did the Nazis acquire in the years leading up to WWII? 3. Why was the Munich Conference such a crucial moment in European history? 4. What is the “blitzkrieg” and how did Germany use it with devastating effects in Poland? 5. How was France ruled after the successful Nazi conquest? 6. How did the British successfully repel a planned German invasion? 7. What were the reasons behind Japanese expansion in the 1930’s? 8. How did the United States respond to the bombing of Pearl Harbor? 9. Which battles in North Africa proved to be decisive turning points in the war? 10. What was the major turning point in the U.S. conflict with Japan? 11. Why did the German/Russian non-­‐aggression pact fail in 1941? 12. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad the decisive battle of the 20th century? 13. Where was Nazi rule of Europe the most brutal and violent? 14. What percentage of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe died in death camps? 15. What were the Einsatzgruppen, and why did they inspire such fear? 16. How much did the U.S. nuclear bomb program cost the country? 17. Which Japanese cities were targets of the U.S. atomic bombs? 18. How did German citizens feel about the outbreak of war in 1939? 19. Which country faced the highest death toll as a result of WWII? 20. How was Germany ruled after the Nazi’s defeat in 1945? 21. Which two countries became the most dominant superpowers after 1945? 22. Why did a Cold War develop between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after WWII? 23. What are containment, the Truman Doctrine, and the Domino Theory? 24. How did the West respond to Stalin’s blockade of Berlin in 1948? 25. How did NATO and the Warsaw Pact set up military alliances throughout the Cold War? 26. What is Mutually Assured Destruction? 27. What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961? How successful was it? 28. What happened to the U.S. supported government of Chiang Kai-­‐shek after their defeat at the hands of Mao Tse-­‐Tung? 29. Which notable Egyptian General fought for Arab unity and anticolonialism? 30. What were the results of Indian independence from the British Empire? 31. How did the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev deal with the legacy of Joseph Stalin? 32. What was the purpose of the European Common Market? 33. What are the major teachings of existentialism, and who are its most famous philosophers? 34. When did television become available to most people in the U.S. and Europe?