Download Honors United States History 2 Final Examination Review Sheet

Honors United States History 2 Final Examination Review Sheet
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Chapter 24 Section 1
What tactics did Josef Stalin use to dominate the Soviet Union?
How did Hitler and Mussolini view expansion?
Why were Italy and Germany known as the Axis Powers?
What did Hitler, Mussolini, and Japanese leaders begin doing during the 1930s?
What did Mussolini use a gang of Fascist thugs for?
How did Stalin modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union?
Nazism is an extreme form of what ideology?
What historical event led to the rise of fascism in Italy and German, and totalitarianism in the Soviet
Union?
Chapter 24 Section 2
After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, where was his next target?
Where did the British hold out from the German attack (what battle)?
What country had controlled most of Western Europe by 1940?
What military strategy did Hitler use in his invasion of Poland?
Where did Hitler launch the greatest air assault ever seen?
Who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion?
What two European leaders made a non-aggression pact with one another?
Chapter 24 Section 3
Who took over Manchuria by 1932?
What did the Burma Road connect?
What were the results of the Manchurian incident?
What was the real motive behind the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
What was Manchuoko?
In September of 1940, who did Japan align itself with?
What did the Japanese Army do during the Manchurian incident?
Chapter 24 Section 4
What prompted the United States to enter World War II?
Where did Japanese leaders believe they could crush the American naval fleet?
What did the American First Committee want to do?
What was the policy of the United States during the early years of World War II?
During the 1930s, what was the main focus of United States?
What were the Neutrality Acts designed to do?
Who was the Prime Minister of Japan by October 1941?
What countries declared war on the United States shortly after the United States declared war on Japan?
Chapter 25 Section1
Why did the United States begin to emerge from the depression?
Financing the war with borrowed money is known as what practice?
On the home front, what was popular culture characterized by?
Between what ages were young men drafted for military service?
What did the American government do to meet the demand for war materials?
What did Ford Motor Company make instead of cars during the war?
Chapter 25 Section 2
What strategy did Roosevelt and Churchill first agree upon?
After the Allies took Africa, what was their next target?
Where were the Germans finally stopped in their advance in the Soviet Union?
When did the invasion to take Europe from the Axis Powers begin?
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
What took place on D-Day?
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Chapter 25 Section 3
What was one of the main goals of the Nazis in the 1930s?
What was the “final solution question,” announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee Conference?
What important idea came out of the Nuremburg Trials?
Chapter 25 Section 4
Where did the Japanese immediately attack after Pearl Harbor?
Where did the Allies sink all four Japanese carriers and 250 planes?
What was the goal of the Manhattan project?
Where did the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal take place?
What was a kamikaze?
What finally brought an end to World War II?
With the words “I shall return,” where was General Douglas MacArthur promising to return to?
What important strategy did the Allies use in the Pacific?
Chapter 25 Section 5
What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the west coast?
Describe African American soldiers during World War II.
What did CORE believe in?
Where did Mexican American laborers live (the neighborhoods)?
What does interned mean?
In 1988, what did Congress award surviving Japanese internees?
After the war, what were women expected to do?
ESSAY
Choose one of the two essays
- Do you think the United States would have entered World War II if they were not attacked by the Japanese at
Pearl Harbor?
-How do you think World War II might have changed American women’s attitudes toward their roles at the
workplace?