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The American People in World War II
Look and listen for the answers to the questions below as you watch this video presentation.
1.
What date did World War II begin?
2.
How did it begin? (What event started it?)
3.
When the war began, President Roosevelt declared the U.S. to be
__________________.
4.
By the spring of 1941, the U.S. was fighting an ______________________
___________________ ____________ against Germany.
5.
After the Japanese occupied French Indochina (Southeast Asia), the U.S.
declared an __________________ on trade with Japan.
6.
What event brought the U.S. into World War II? Date?
7.
In December, 1941, the U.S. was __________________ for war.
8.
Approximately how many Americans served in the armed forces in World
War II?
9.
The entire ___________________ industry “re-tooled” to supply the war effort.
10.
The money spent on war production finally ended the _____________
____________________.
11.
Millions of _______________ Americans made employment gains during
World War II.
12.
100,000 _____________________-Americans were sent to “resettlement”
camps, despite the fact that many were _________________ who were
born in the _______________.
13.
_______________-labor laws were “relaxed” during World War II.
14.
Many foods and other goods were “_______________________” (supply was
restricted and controlled).
15.
In January, 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill announced that the war would
be fought until “_______________________ _______________________.”
16.
What happened on June 6, 1944? What was it called?
17.
Who became President when Roosevelt died?
18.
When did Germany surrender?
19.
When did Japan surrender? What did this mean?
20.
During the war years the U.S. moved from __________________________ to
__________________ ____________________.
21.
Two responsibilities facing the U.S. following World War II were :
a. to use its leadership to maintain _________________________________, and
b. to provide a “meaningful” ___________________________________________
for its citizens.
World War II with Professor I.M. Smart
1. What factors led to the outbreak of World War II?
a. The rise of _______________________
b. ___________________ issues from World War I
c. ___________________ expansion by ___________________. ___________________, and
___________________.
2. A “dictator” is a leader with ___________________ ___________________.
a. A dictator answers to ___________________.
b. A dictator gets and holds on to power through the use of ___________________
___________________.
3. Draw lines to connect each name with the country he controlled:
Francisco Franco
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Emporer Hirohito
Spain
4. The German leaders were angry over issues resulting from ________________________.
5. The Germany, Italians, and Japanese felt the best way from them to grow stronger was to
____________ _____________ other countries.
6. Military buildups in Germany and Italy led to a rise in ___________________ - a sense of
____________ and ______________ in their nation – and new ____________ and
___________________.
7. The German army used a new tactic called “blitzkrieg” - ___________________ war.
8. Following the German attack on Poland, ______________ ______________ and
______________ declared war on Germany, but the U.S. remained a ___________________
nation.
9. Isolationists were people who were against _____________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
10. More than _____ million Jews were killed by the ____________ during World War II. This was
known as the ___________________, meaning ___________________ ___________________ of
______________.
11. The Battle of ________________ was the first large-scale German defeat in World War II.
12. Draw lines to match each group with its goal:
Isolationists
stay out of war
Interventionists
lend military support; try to end war
13. On what date did the Japanese attack our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
14. The two main sides in the war were the ______________ Powers and the ______________.
a. The main nations belonging to the Axis Powers were ___________________,
___________________, and ___________________.
b. The main nations belonging to the Allies were the ______________ _______________,
___________________, ___________________, and ___________________.
15. Italy surrendered in ______________.
16. June 6, 1944 is known as “___________________.”
17. The major turning-point in the war against Japan was the Battle of ___________________.
This ended the threat of a Japanese attack on the U.S. ___________________.
18. The strategy used to defeat Japan was known as ” ___________________
___________________.”
19. Germany surrendered on ______________ _____, ______________.
20. President ___________________died before the war ended. He was replaced by Harry S
______________.
21. On August 6, 1945, and ______________ bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of
___________________. On August 9, another ___________________ bomb was used on the
city of ___________________. Japan surrendered ___________________ a few days later. The
war ended in ___________________, ______________.
A History of US: World War II
1.
The Great Depression in Germany led to the rise of _______________ _______________.
His government was a ____________________ out to destroy ____________________.
2.
Dictators also took control in __________________ and __________________.
3.
Anti-Semitism means ____________________ of _______________.
4.
The Nazis were the followers of _______________. They built “____________________” of
death. They hunted down the _______________ of Europe and _______________ that
they hated and sent them to _________________________ camps to be killed.
5.
In 1938 Hitler conquered __________________ and ______________________________, and
the western democracies _______________ him do it.
6.
When the Nazis invaded ___________________ in 1939, _______________ and
_______________ declared war on Germany.
7.
At first, the U.S. followed a policy of ____________________.
8.
On June 21, 1941, Germany invaded the _______________ _______________. The Soviets,
led by Joseph _______________, joined the Allies.
9.
President Roosevelt began to warn the American people that they would have to be
willing to defend ___________________ against forces that would _______________ the
world.
10. On December 7, 1941, _______________ attacked the U.S. naval base at
_______________ _______________ in _______________. President Roosevelt described it as
“a date which will live in _______________.”
11. The U.S. declared war on _______________. Three days later, ____________________ and
_______________ declared war on the U.S.
12. Three big American victories early in the Pacific war were in the _______________
_______________, at ___________________, and at _________________________.
13. Roosevelts “Four Freedoms” were freedom of _______________, freedom of
_______________, freedom from _______________, and freedom from _____________.
14. Ironically, while Americans were fighting for freedom abroad, they were “trampling”
on the freedom of ____________________-____________________, who without
_______________ and without _______________ _______________ were arrested and sent
to _________________________ camps.
15. By 1943 the Allies began to _______________.
16. Operation ____________________ was the plan for the ____________________ and
recapture of France from Germany. What date was “D-Day” (the day the invasion
took place)?
17. In April 1945 Franklin Roosevelt suffered a stroke and _____________ before the war
was over.
18. Even after the war In Europe ended, the war in the __________________ against
__________________ raged on.
19. The new President was Harry S __________________. He decided to use a powerful new
weapon against Japan – the __________________ __________________.
20. A Japanese citiy, _______________________ was totally destroyed by an atomic bomb.
Seven days later, after a second city was destroyed by an atomic bomb, Japan
_______________________ and World War II was __________________.