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Name____________________________________ Date___________Hour___________ World War II Study guide Chapter 28 and Chapter 29 1. What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? 2. What are the different fears that made fascism appealing in Italy and Germany? 3. Which leader was given the title Il Duce? 4. How did a version of Charles Darwin’s scientific idea affect the events in the 1920’s -40’s? 5. Define nationalism and how it affects Europe in the years prior to WWII? 6. What was the main purpose of Stalin’s five-year plans? 7. Which country was punished most harshly for its involvement in World War I? 8. Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism? 9. What was Kristallnacht? 10. Why did Hitler target the Jewish population as scapegoats for all of Germany's troubles? 11. What were the goals/duties of the League of Nations? 12. What actions did the Nazis take to violate the Versailles treaty? 13. What were the Nuremberg Laws and how did it affect German Jews? 14. Define Appeasement and how it applied to Europe in the 1930’s? 15. World War II in Europe began with Hitler’s invasion of which country? 16. The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935? 17. Which city was the target of an unsuccessful German blitz for over two months in 1940-41? 18. How did the Germans view the lands they occupied? 19. What was a cause of Stalin’s Great Purge and how did if affect the Soviet Union? 20. How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? 21. The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of what? 22. What is the name given to the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan? 23. What were the results of the Munich Conference in 1938? 24. Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union? 25. What name was given to the “puppet state” in France after if was conquered by Germany and who was the “leader”? 26. Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany after it invaded Poland? 27. What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940? 28. Which two countries signed a nonaggression pact in 1939? 29. Who was Charles de Gaulle and why was he important? 30. What was the German blitzkrieg and why was it so effective? 31. What was Hitler's prime reason for wanting to take Poland? 32. What crucial lesson was learned in the Battle of Britain? 33. What event occurred on the day described as "a date which will live in infamy"? 34. What was the term given to the U.S. strategy in Pacific and why was it effective? 35. During World War II, what did “Rosie the Riveter” come to symbolize? 36. Who were the kamikazes and what did they show about Japanese culture? 37. What was the importance of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942? 38. Who went on the Bataan Death March, and why? 39. Which of the event occurred on D-Day and why was it important? 40. What battle marked the final German offensive? 41. What was the goal of Hitler's "Final Solution"? 42. What was the Holocaust? 43. How did civilians participate in the war effort at home? 44. Toward the end of World War II, Hitler began making mistakes such as 45. What was the Manhattan Project? 46. Why did Truman agree to use the atomic bomb? What event ended World War II in the Pacific? 1 2