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World War II Test Study Guide
1. How did the Great Depression lead to great changes in Germany politically?
2. Why did Japan seize resources from nations?
3. What impact did the U.S., Britain, and French appeasement policy have on the German
aggression?
4. What was the cash/carry policy and how did it work?
5. What were the beliefs of the interventionist and how did they believe America would avoid
war?
6. What was the lend lease act and why was it the equivalent of declaring economic war against
the axis powers?
7. What was the goal that President FDR hoped to achieve when he enacted an embargo on naval
supplies in 1940?
8. What was the role of the Office of War mobilization?
9. Why did the allies adopt the “Europe First” strategy?
10. What the Battle of Midway and why was it a turning point in the War?
11. Where did wartime migration cause race riots to breakout at?
12. Why did Japanese Americans face more restrictions that German or Italian Americans during
World War II?
13. Why did Stalin want Britain and the United States to open a second front in France?
14. What was President Truman chief reason for using the Atomic bomb against Japan?
15. What group did the Nazis believe was the more superior group over other ethnicities?
16. When did Germany outline a plan to execute a 11,000,000 Jews?
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17. Be familiar with the results of WWII.
18. Who was Joseph Stalin and who did he replace?
19. What group of people hated socialism and communism or anything that place human rights
above ethnic solidarity?
20. What event led to the United States moving from a position of isolationism to a position of
involvement in WWII?
21. What happened on D-Day?
22. What was the Holocaust?
23. What single event led to the start of WWII?
24. Who was the leader of Germany?
25. What’s a blitzkrieg?
26. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
27. When was Pearl Harbor attacked?
28. Know that chart I told you to copy from the notes.
29. What are the characteristics of a totalitarian state?
30. What does the term Anti-Semitic mean?
31. What country attacked Manchuria in 1931?
32. What is appeasement?
33. Who were the members of the Axis powers?
34. What countries made up the Allied powers?
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35. What was the Europe first strategy?
36. What were the two turning points of WWII?
37. What was Island Hopping?
38. What was the Manhattan Project?
39. What is Genocide?
40. What were four effects of World War II?
Constructive Response
1.
A. What was the Holocaust?
B. Who was responsible?
C. Who were the victims?
2. Do you think a totalitarian form of government would have formed in Germany if the Great
Depression had not occurred? Explain.