WWII TEST REVIEW
Name __________________________________
FOR EACH ITEM, DESCRIBE IT AND EXPLAIN ITS IMPORTANCE TO WORLD WAR II. USE YOUR
NOTES, CHAPTER 16, AND CLASSWORK.
TERMS: Define and understand each term’s importance in WWII.
 Axis Powers (countries? Goals?)
 Allied Powers (countries? Goals?)
 Appeasement
 Blitzkrieg
 Homefront
 European Front
 Pacific Front
 Holocaust
 Island hopping
 Kamikaze
 Bushido
PEOPLE: Identify and understand each person’s importance in WWII.
 Benito Mussolini
 Adolph Hitler
 Emperor Hirohito
 Winston Churchill
 Joseph Stalin
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
 “Rosie the Riveter”
 Harry S Truman
 Dwight Eisenhower
 Douglas MacArthur
BEGINNING OF THE WAR: Identify and understand each event’s importance in WWII.
 Munich Pact
 Nazi-Soviet Pact
 Start of WWII – what event sparked its beginning?
 Neutrality Acts
 Lend-Lease Act
 U.S. entry into the war—why and when?
HOMEFRONT: Identify and understand each item’s importance to the homefront in WWII.
 Rationing
 Propaganda
 Women in the Military (WASPs)
 Women in the Work Force
 Japanese Internment Camps
 Reasons created
 Camp conditions
 Effects of Japanese internment
WAR IN EUROPE: Identify each and understand each battle’s importance in WWII.
 Battle of the Atlantic
 Battle of Britain
 The Campaign for North Africa
 The Campaign for Italy
 Stalingrad
 D-Day
 Battle of the Bulge
HOLOCAUST: Explain and describe each of the following.
 1st Phase
 Nuremberg Laws
 2nd Phase
 Ghettos
 3rd Phase – The Final Solution
 End of the Holocaust
 Liberation
 Survivor’s Rebuild Their Lives
 Nuremberg Trials
WAR IN PACIFIC; Identify each and understand each battle’s importance in WWII.
 Pearl Harbor – date too!
 Philippines
 Doolittle Raid
 Battle of Midway
 Guadalcanal
 Battle of Leyte Gulf
 Iwo Jima
 Okinawa
 Tokyo
ATOMIC BOMB: Identify each and understand each item’s importance in WWII.
 Controversy--why?
 Manhattan Project
 Hiroshima/Nagasaki--what happened and why important?
 Decision to drop bomb--why?
ESSAYS (Be sure to use proper essay format--topic sentence, 3 reasons with evidence,
concluding sentence--DO NOT START WITH THE WORDS YES, NO, OR WELL,)
1. Should the United States have passed the Lend-Lease Act? Explain. (Do you agree with “America
First” or the “Committee to Defend America”?)
2. Should the United States have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan? Explain.