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World War II Study Guide
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The Manhattan Project was a secret American project to develop atomic weapons.
Besides winning World War II, the US wanted to show their new power to their post-WWII opponent, the Soviet Union.
Japanese citizens in the US Japanese citizens were locked up in internment camps during WWII.
Besides Germany and Italy, the Soviet Union had a fascist government in the 1930.
In a fascist state, citizens and businesses are expected to be completely loyal and actively engaged in supporting the goals of the
state.
The US’s Allies in WWII included France, Britain, USSR and China.
United Nations was formed to promote world peace at the end of World War II?
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor got the US to join the war
Jews in Germany had to wear a yellow star on their clothing.
Austria got involved in World War II when Germany took over Austria and Austria officially became part of Germany in 1938.
Japan’s goal in World War II was to conquer East Asia and all the islands of the Pacific in WWII.
The policy of appeasement was when France and Britain allowed Germany to conquer Czechoslovakia without any opposition.
During World War II, Jews, gays, and mentally handicapped people were sent to concentration camps in Germany.
The Axis powers during World War II were Germany, Japan, and Italy.
The USSR didn’t join Britain in fighting against Germany at the beginning of WWII because Stalin and Hitler had signed a peace
agreement which allows the USSR to take over half of Poland.
Hitler’s policies pulled Germany out of the depression which helped increase Hitler’s popularity in Germany before WWII.
Rommel was known as “The Desert Fox”.
Benito Mussolini was the leader of Italy during WWII.
Hitler come to power in Germany in 1933.
The invasion of Poland by Germany marks the “official” beginning of World War II.
The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, one of the largest military operations in history, is known as D-Day.
The controversial bombing raid by the U.S. Air Force, on a city known as a cultural icon, killed roughly 22,000 people in the
German city of Dresden.
The first major World War II campaign to be fought entirely by air forces was referred to as the Battle of Britain.
The Allied plan of a tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Post-War Germany was created at the Yalta Conference.
The leader of the USSR during World War II was Josef Stalin.
The complete mobilization of all resources: armies, navies, air forces, industries, and the active targeting of civilians is known as
Total War.
The Nazis exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts, and information in Germany through the use of propaganda.
Japan invaded China between 1931 and 1940.
The Blitzkrieg allowed the Germans to achieve remarkable military success at the beginning of World War II.
By the summer of 1941, Great Britain was the last holdout against Germany’s complete domination of Europe.
The Battle of the Bulge in Belgium marked Germany’s last offensive of the war.
The Nazi “final solution” was a plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Japan surrendered in August, 1945, after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
At the Nuremberg Trials, the Allies tried 22 Nazi leaders for war crimes.
Hitler’s goal of establishing a Third Reich meant that he wanted to create a new German Empire.
Short Answer:
What was the main cause of World War II?
What was a major outcome of World War II?
Should the US have dropped the Atomic Bomb to end the war in Japan?