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WORLD WAR II STUDY GUIDE
1. What did fascism emphasize, aside from nationalism?
2. What country was angry about the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, particularly
the “War Guilt Clause?”
3. Who was Il Duce in Italy?
4. Name 3 things that were common to both fascism and communism.
5. After the Stock Market Crash in 1928, by 1933 how many American workers were
unemployed?
6. In the US, FDR was elected and began a program of reform called what?
7. What does the title of Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, mean?
8. What was the policy of appeasement?
9. What caused Germans to start taking Hitler and his message seriously?
10. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
11. Who did Hitler sign a non-aggression pact with?
12. What is total war?
13. What is anti-Semitism?
14. What is the name of the event that is considered to be the beginning of an active
policy of anti-Semitism? When did it happen?
15. What were the Nuremberg Laws?
16. What were the segregated Jewish areas of cities called?
17. What was the “Final Solution?”
18. What is genocide?
19. Name 3 methods of genocide employed by the Nazis.
20. Who were the Shutzstaffel?
21. What countries were members of the Axis Powers?
22. What was German warfare called?
23. Name all countries taken by Hitler.
24. Name all countries taken by Mussolini.
25. Name all countries taken by Japan
26. Who was the British Prime Minister?
27. What country passed the Neutrality Acts?
28. What British-controlled territory did Mussolini invade in September 1940?
29. What German General had incredible victories in North Africa? What was his
nickname?
30. What was Operation Barbarossa?
31. What did Stalin ask of the Allies after Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union?
32. What battle marked a turning point in North Africa that forced Rommel and the
German forces to retreat westward?
33. What was Operation Torch?
34. Why were Hitler’s invasions of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad unsuccessful?
35. During WWII, what new invention was used to detect aircraft?
36. What was the Enigma?
37. What was Operation Sea Lion?
38. What did Hitler do to the United States even during their time of isolation? Who is
actually responsible for bringing the US into the war?
39. Name 3 things that helped to motivate Japan to build an empire.
40. What did the Japanese believe would help their economic situation in the early 1930s?
41. Who encouraged Hirohito to go to war with the United States?
42. Who went on the Bataan Death March and why?
43. Why were thousands of Japanese Americans moved to relocation camps?
44. What was the main target of the kamikazes?
45. Who was the military strategist of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
46. What Allied commander planned the “island hopping” campaign against Japan?
47. What was the purpose of the “island hopping” campaign?
48. What island did the Japanese nickname the “Island of Death?”
49. In April 1945, the Allies won the bloodiest land battle of the war on what island only
350 miles from Tokyo?
50. What event turned the tide of the war in the Pacific against Japan?
51. Why was Doolittle’s raid on Japan important?
52. Who were the “Big Three” of the postwar conference talks?
53. Describe D-Day.
54. Who was commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
55. Who was the commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific?
56. After which battle did the war in Europe near its end?
57. What was an important reason for dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan?
58. What was the significance of the Atlantic Charter both during and after the war?
59. After World War II, what kind of a government system was set up in Japan?
60. Name 3 consequences of World War II.