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STUDY GUIDE FOR A WORLD AT WAR
Don’t forget to know
Alliance
Nationalism
Imperialism
Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Serbia
Isolationism
your vocabulary, too:
Front
Trench
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Russian Revolution
Fascism
Adolf Hitler
Totalitarian
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Inflation
Depression
Propaganda
Communism
Concentration Camp
Holocaust
Anne Frank
Pearl Harbor
Normandy
United Nations
What time period of great technological advancement, suspicion and international
competition led up to the beginning of the First World War?
What single event began a chain reaction that led to the First World War?
What did many European countries do in the late 1800s in order to try to increase their
strength and safety because of the growing tension between certain nations?
Due to tremendous improvements in how their goods were made and how they lived, by the
early 1900s how did many Europeans feel they compared to other peoples?
What were the major alliances of the First World War? (What were they called and
which countries were allied together?)
Where and why was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
How did many feel about the possibility of war in the early days of the First World
War?
The attitude of the United States (wanting to mind their own business) at the
beginning of both World Wars can be described with what word?
Why did Russian armies suffer horrible losses during the First World War?
What were some of the new weapons used in the First World War?
What chess term could be used to describe how the First World War ended?
Where (in what Palace) was the treaty ending the First World War signed?
Which American President’s ideas about the proposed treaty were virtually ignored by
British and French leaders after the First World War? Why?
What were some of the elements of the Treaty of Versailles?
How could you summarize the main effects of the First World War? What effect did
the Treaty of Versailles have on Germany?
What promises allowed Adolf Hitler to gain the support of the German people?
Besides Britain and France, on whom else did Hitler blame his nation’s problems?
What were the major alliances of the Second World War? (What were they called and
which countries were allied together?)
Which leader decided to cooperate with Germany in order to buy his country more time?
At the darkest hour of the war, which nation was the only major country actively
fighting against the Nazi threat?
Who was the British Prime Minister from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 that led Britain
through the Battle of Britain and World War Two?
When the Battle of Britain was not going his way Adolf Hitler decided to turn his
attention in the direction of what other country that had been partnered with him?
Japan attacked what U.S. naval base on what date in order to stop us from preventing
their goal of dominating the Pacific?
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of what area in France?
When did the D-Day invasion end up taking place?
After D-Day, approximately how long was it until Germany surrendered?
What was a reason U.S. commanders recommended using atomic bombs against Japan?