Test Review
Chapters 13-15
Be prepared to define the following terms and explain their historical significance:
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Fireside Chats
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC)
Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
Second New Deal
John Maynard Keynes
Pump Priming
Social Security Act
Totalitarianism
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
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Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Winston Churchill
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
Women’s Army Corps
(WAC)
Bataan Death March
Douglas Macarthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Saturation Bombing
Rationing
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Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Coral Sea
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Harry S. Truman
Island Hopping
Kamikaze
Manhattan Project
Holocaust
Concentration Camp
United Nations
Geneva Convention
Nuremberg Trials
The Big Three
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Explain President Roosevelt’s approach to ending the Great Depression
Compare the first and second New Deals
Describe the culture of the 1930s
Argue the effectiveness of the New Deal
Analyze the ways in which the Treaty of Versailles lead to WWII
Explain the progression of WWII in Europe
Explain the Allied strategy in WWII
Analyze the effectiveness of Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall”
Describe the chain of events leading up to America’s involvement in WWII
Describe the goals of the major Axis powers (Italy, Germany, Japan)
Make an argument about what you consider to be the major turning points in both the War in Europe
and the War in the Pacific
Explain the long-term effects of WWII
Analyze the reasons behind the decision to use the atomic bomb
State the month and year of both Germany and Japan’s surrender
Explain why Germany and Japan surrendered
Describe the impact of WWII on life in the United States during the war
Describe the Holocaust and explain the logic behind it
Explain how naval warfare changed during WWII