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Study Guide –WWII
Interwar Period
- Political Ideologies:
- Totalitarianism, Fascism, and Communism
- Events and ideas associated with fascism and communism
- Mein Kampf (1923) & its major ideas
- Nazi Germany Territorial Expansion …
- What was Hitler’s purpose in occupying the Rhineland?
- The Anschluss
- Appeasement and Munich Conference
- The occupation of the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – What were these agreements?
U.S. Neutrality
- U.S. Neutrality before WWII …
- President Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”
- Cash-and-Carry
- Lend-lease Act (1941)
and - What was the importance of these?
WWII – Battles
- Describe blitzkrieg or “lightning warfare”
- What event officially began WWII?
- How did Germany surprise France and Great Britain in its invasion of France?
- Why did Germany call a “Halt Order” before Germany’s attack on Dunkirk?
European Theater
- Evacuation at Dunkirk
- Battle of Britain
- Operation Barbarosa
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of the Bulge
- “Operation Sea Lion”
- Battle of Moscow
- Siege of Leningrad
Pacific Theater
- Attack upon Pearl Harbor
- Battle of Coral Sea
- Battle of Okinawa
- Raid on Cabanatuan
- Bataan Death March
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Iwo Jima
** D-Day …
- Objective and Purpose - Atlantic Wall
- “Operation Fortitude”
- Planning considerations?
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- General strategy decided upon by Allied Powers …
- Importance of U.S. Aid to Soviet Union on Eastern Front
- Purpose of invading North Africa (Operation Torch)
- Purpose of strategic bombing in Germany
American on the Home Front
- Executive Order 9066
- Double-V Campaign
- Selective Service and Training Act (1940)
- African Americans fighting in a segregated military
- Contributions of Women …
- “Rosie the Riveter”
- How many women joined the American workforce, 1941- 45?
- How did attitudes towards women working outside the home change during WWII?
- War Production Board
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- “Red points and Blue points” & economic rationing
- Army / Navy Munitions Board
- Gold Stars in people’s windows meant what exactly?
- Propaganda for the WWII campaign
Holocaust
- Why did Germans support Hitler?
- How did Nazis propaganda influence the German population?
- Nuremberg Laws
- Kristallnacht
- “Generalplan Ost”
- Einsatzgruppen
- Why did German Nazi leadership in 1942 support the “Final Solution?”
- Describe life in the Jewish ghettos