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World War II Review Sheet
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1. How did each of the following help lead to World War II?
Treaty of Versailles
The Great Depression
Rise of Dictators
2. Identify the Neutrality Acts.
3. What did Roosevelt mean by the Good Neighbor Policy?
4. Identify the totalitarian dictator of each country and describe their type of
rule.
USSR-Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
Japan
5. Explain how each of the following used aggression against neighboring countries:
Nazis (Germany)
Fascists (Italy)
Communists (Soviet Union)
Military Rule (Japan)
6. What happened at the Munich Conference?
7. Identify the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 (Non-Aggression Pact)?
8. Identify the nations that made up each of the following powers.
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
9. What was the immediate cause of World War II in Europe?
10. Describe: Cash-and-Carry
11. Describe the Lend-Lease Act passed by Congress in 1941.
12. Which nations issued the Atlantic Charter? What were the goals of the
Atlantic Charter?
13. Describe: Blitzkrieg
14. What was the immediate cause of the United States entry into WWII?
15. How did WWII change the lives of Japanese-Americans living in the United
States?
16. How did the role of women change during World War II?
17. Identify: Executive Order 8802
19. Describe: Winning the War: A Two Front War
D-Day (Europe)
Island Hopping (Pacific)
20. How did Harry Truman defend use of the atomic bomb?
21. Why was the United Nations organized after World War II?
22. Identify: Holocaust
23. Explain: Nuremburg Trials