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Study Guide –WWII
Interwar Period
- Political Ideologies:
- Totalitarianism, Fascism, Communism, & Socialism
- What interests (groups of people) and events supported the rise of fascism?
- Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?
- Mein Kampf (1923) & its major points
- “Generalplan Ost”
- Nazi Germany Territorial Expansion
- What was Hitler’s purpose in occupying the Rhineland?
- The Anschluss, and why does Germany invade before the Austrian referendum?
- Appeasement and Munich Conference
- The occupation of the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – What were these agreements?
U.S. Neutrality
- Importance of U.S. aid to Allies and end of U.S. Neutrality
- Before WWII, how is the U.S. trying to avoid a similar fate from the events of 1916-17?
- Cash-and-Carry
- Lend-lease
- What was the Japanese purpose in attacking Pearl Harbor?
- President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, and what was the importance of these?
WWII – Battles
- Describe blitzkrieg, or “lightning warfare”
- What event officially began WWII?
European Theater
Pacific Theater
- Evacuation at Dunkirk
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Battle of Midway
- Operation Sea Lion
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Coral Sea
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Berlin
- Attack upon Pearl Harbor
- Battle of Saipan
- Operation Barbarosa
- Battle of the Bulge
- Bataan Death March
- Siege of Leningrad
- Battle of Kursk
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Battle of the Bulge
- Raid on Cabanatuan
- Battle of Stalingrad
- D-Day
- Atlantic Wall &
“Operation Fortitude”
- What were the considerations for planning this mission?
** “Maskirovka”
** Importance of U.S. Aid to Soviet Union on Eastern Front
- General strategy decided upon by Allied Powers
- Purpose of fighting in North Africa
- Purpose of opening up a second front in Europe
- Purpose of strategic bombing in Germany and Japan
- Arguments For & Against Dropping Atomic Bombs
** Mass Suicides (Okinawa) and “Seppuku”
American on the Home Front
- Executive Order 9066
- Double-V Campaign
- Selective Service and Training Act (1940)
- Contributions of Women &
“Rosie the Riveter”
- How many women were added to the workforce between 1941 - 45?
- During WWII, what fraction of the civilian workforce was made up of women?
- How did attitudes towards women working outside the home change during WWII?
- War Production Board
&
“Red points and Blue points” & economic rationing
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Gold Stars in people’s windows meant what exactly?
Holocaust
- Einsatzgruppen
- Why did Germans support Hitler?
- How did the Nazis influence German sentiments about Jewish people?
- Nuremberg Laws
- Kristallnacht
- By 1937, what percentage of German teachers belonged to the Nazi Teacher’s League?
- Why did German Nazi leadership in 1942 support the “Final Solution?”