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WWII STUDY GUIDE
AMERICA AND THE WAR
1. Post-WWI, dictatorships arose in what four countries, under which
leaders/ideologies?
2. Define Fascism.
3. What were the key components of Hitler’s ideology?
4. How did Americans promote neutrality?
5. What was the Rome-Berlin Axis?
6. What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?
WORLD WAR II BEGINS
7. Define Anschluss.
8. What is appeasement?
9. What was decided at the Munich Conference?
10. What was the German strategy for defeating Poland? Explain.
11. Why was Dunkirk considered a miracle?
12. What new technology helped Great Britain defend against German invasion?
THE HOLOCAUST
13. Who did Hitler target during the Holocaust?
14. What were the Nuremberg laws?
15. What was Kristallnacht?
16. What obstacles prevented Jews from fleeing Nazi Germany?
17. What was decided at the Wannasee Conference?
AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR
18. Why were Americans so isolationist leading into WWII?
19. How did FDR work to get around neutrality acts and push America towards
internationalism?
20. When was Pearl Harbor attacked?
21. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
MOBILIZING FOR WAR
22. How did the U.S. expand its war production so quickly?
23. What was the problem with American troops at the start of the war?
24. What was the goal of the “Double V” Campaign? Who carried it out?
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LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT
25. What effect did the war have on the Great Depression?
26. Describe daily life in wartime America.
27. What was the Bracero Program?
28. What did “Rosie the Riveter” symbolize?
29. What were the Zoot Suit riots?
30. What did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu v. the U.S.?
31. Describe the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
THE EARLY BATTLES
32. Who was in charge of American forces in the Philippines?
33. What was the Bataan Death March?
34. What was the result of the Doolittle raid on the Japanese?
35. How did the Battle of Coral Sea affect the U.S.?
36. Why was the Battle of Midway important to the war?
37. Who was Ewin Rommel?
38. What new ideas helped Americans win the control of the Atlantic?
39. Why was the Battle for Stalingrad significant?
PUSHING THE AXIS BACK
40. What was decided at the Casablanca Conference?
41. What was decided at the Tehran Conference?
42. What was the name of the US/British invasion of France? What did they call the day
of the invasion? What impact did this have on the war?
43. Explain the strategy used by the U.S. against the Japanese in the Pacific.
44. What happened at the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
THE WAR ENDS
45. What did we call the end of the war in Europe? In Asia?
46. Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?
47. Why did the Allies feel they needed to take control of Iwo Jima?
48. Why was the use of napalm significant?
49. What was the Manhattan Project?
50. Why did Truman drop the bomb?
51. Describe the international organization that was set up after the war, how it came
about, and its goals.
52. Why were the Nuremberg Trials significant?