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Studyguide: World War II
Chapter 34-36
Key Content Terms: Be able to define and explain the significance of each
term listed below.
Totalitarian government
Fascism
Nazism
Communism
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Neville Chamberlain
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rhineland
Sudetenland
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Neutrality Acts
Lend -Lease Act
Munich Pact
Appeasement
Winston Churchill
Holocaust
Blitzkrieg
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Selective Training & Service Act
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
Manchuria
Rape of Nanjing
Rationing
war bonds
“soft underbelly of the axis”
D-day
GI
Women's Army Corp
Leapfrogging or island hopping
Interim Committee
Kamikaze
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Harry S Truman
Big Three
Rosie the Riveter
internment camp
"Double V" campaign
Midway
Key Content Questions:
 Identify aggressive actions that Italy, Germany and Japan each took during the
1930s before the Munich Pact.

How might Neville Chamberlain have explained the policy, and the reasons
behind it, that led France and Britain to sign the Munich Pact?

Trace the steps from the Munich Pact to the beginning of World War Ii in
Europe.

Describe the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. How did the United States
respond?

How did the United States mobilization for war bring an end to the Great
Depression? How did the mobilization alter the role of the federal government?

Explain how war bond drives and rationing affected the war effort and also the
morale of the American people.

Of the more than 16 million people who served in the military, what different
groups were represented? What sacrifices did GIs make for their country?

Which group do you think suffered most as a result of the war: German, Italian,
or Japanese nationals living in the US? Explain.

Did the war have a positive or negative effect, overall, on the status of women
and minority groups? Explain.

Explain why the Soviet Union favored a strategy of forcing Germany to fight a
two-front war. When did the allies adopt this strategy?

Explain why the allies chose to concentrate on Europe and North Africa and then focus
on the Pacific.

Describe the strategy the United States used to fight in the Pacific.

Analyze Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. What factors
went into this decision.
MAPS:
There will be a map on your test. Review the maps titled “Aggression in
Europe,” "World War II in the Pacific" and the alliances on the “World at
War” map.