WWII Study Guide
Name: _______________
THE HOLOCAUST:
1. How many died total?
11 MILIION
How many that were Jewish?
6 MILLION
2. List 4 types targeted: GYPSIES, JEWS, COMMUNISTS, POLES, HANDICAPPED PEOPLE
3. Give 4 characteristics of a good “Aryan”
BLOND-HAIRED, BLUE EYED, CHRISTIAN,
PHYISICALLY FIT, LIGHT-SKINNED
THE START OF WWII:
1. What year did it start in Europe? 1939_
2. Name the allies after 1942: FRANCE,
3. Name the Axis after 1942:
GB, SOVIET UNION, USA
GERMANY, JAPAN, ITALY
4. The 4 nationalistic wackos: Fill it the boxes below:
Wacko
1. MUSSOLINI
Country
ITALY
Government Type
FASCIST,
DICTATORSHIP
Characteristics/goal
EXPANSION,
NATIONALISM,
2. HITLER
GERMANY
FASCIST, NAZI,
DICTATORSHIP
LEBENSRAUM,
FINAL SOLUTION
3. TOJO
JAPAN
MILITARY
DICATORSHIP
EXPANSION
4. STALIN
SOVIET UNION
COMMUNIST
DICTATORSHIP
5. What policy did GB take with Hitler at first? APPEASEMENT
6. Why did they choose to do that & why didn’t that policy work?
NOBODY COULD DECIDE
TO ATTACK HITLER AND HITLER WAS A LIAR.
7. How many countries did Hitler take over? 14 Name 4:
CZECHOSLOVAKIA,
NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBURG, BELGIUM, POLAND, PARTS OF FRANCE
8. What happened at the Battle of Britain:
GERMAN ATTACKS.
BRITISH FIGHER PILOTS HELD OFF
GERMANS BOMBED MERCILESSLY, BUT BRITAIN DID NOT FALL.
9. Who switches sides in WWII?
ITALY
10. Why does the US first stay neutral?
UNPOPULAR WITH AMERICANS WHO DON’T
WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH ANOTHER FOREIGN WAR AFTER
FIGHTING IN WWI.
THE US ENTERS THE WAR:
1. Who is our President in 1939? FDR
2. Describe America’s feelings about war in 1939:
ISOLATION, BUT START SELLING
CONTRABAND TO BELLIGERENT NATIONS (ALLIES)
3. What policy does America take to get guns to GB?
4. What was that policy trying to prevent?
CASH AND CARRY
GB GETTING INTO TOO MUCH DEBT AND
SUCKING US INTO THE WAR
5. What policy does the US use after to give guns & why did they change?
LEND-LEASE
BECAUSE THE BRITS RAN OUT OF MONEY
6. Describe the Atlantic Charter:
FDR AND WINSTON CHURCHILL MET IN THE
ATLANTIC AND SIGNED AN AGREEMENT THAT CALLED FOR
COOPERATION OF ALL NATIONS AFTER THE WAR, NO ALLIANCES.
7. Name 3 ways in which WWII is similar to WWI: US
STARTED OUT BEING NEUTRAL,
WAR WAS INITIALLY FOUGHT IN THE ATLANTIC WITH BELLIGERENTS
SINKING SUPPLY SHIPS, USE OF MODERN WEAPONS,
8. When does Pearl Harbor happen?
12-7-41 “A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY!”
9. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
THE US STOPPED SELLING THEM OIL.
THEY NEEDED TO ATTACK US AND GET OUR OIL SUPPLIES
10. We declare war on the Axis on: 12-8-41
WWII in EUROPE:
1. What’s our strategy?
(my name for it)
2. How many battles in it?
THE “SQUEEZE”
6
3. What do we call it when the war ends in Europe?
V-E DAY
4. What month does the war in Europe end in during 1945?
MAY, 1945
5. What battle (out of the 6 you learned) is the only time the fight shifts onto GER soil?
BATTLE
OF THE BULGE
6. Draw “the Squeeze” below: Label any details you can. KNOW THE ORDER!
1. BRITAIN
AND
ATLANTIC
5. D-DAY
6. BATTLE OF
2. BATTLE OF
THE BULGE
BRITAIN AND
ATLANTIC
4. ITALY
3. NORTH
AFRICA
WWII in the PACIFIC:
1. What’s our strategy?
ISLAND-HOPPING
2. Name 4 islands we land on: MIDWAY,
GUADALCANAL, IWO JIMA, OKINAWA
3. Describe what its like to fight the Japanese:
THEY WOULD NOT SURRENDER,
SUICIDE FIGHTERS
4. How do Japanese fight differently?
KAMIKAZE, NO SURRENDER
5. What’s one of the most useful weapons against the Japanese?FLAME
THROWERS,
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOTS
6. Who becomes president after FDR dies?
7. Describe how WWII ends.
SURROUND BERLIN.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE, AS THE ALLIES
US DROPS TWO ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN, CAUSING THEM TO FINALLY
SURRENDER.