UNIT XIII REVIEW - Causes, Events and Effects of the World War II era
1. What European dictator came to power by being appointed to office?
HITLER
2. How did European leaders respond as dictators came to power?
AGGRESSION WENT UNCHECKED
3. Which event in Germany would eventually lead to World War II?
HITLER CAME TO POWER
4. What was the final major Allied invasion in Europe?
OPERATION OVERLORD - D-DAY INVASION AT NORMANDY
5. Which military leader planned the Normandy Invasion on D-Day?
EISENHOWER
6. Where did D-Day occur?
NORMANDY, FRANCE
7 What agreement is generally viewed as a cause of World War II?
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
8. What event was not part of the relationship between Japan and the U.S. prior to
World War II?
REMOVAL OF TARIFFS
9. Which battle was a turning point in the war in the Pacific?
MIDWAY
10. Which battle was a turning point in Europe?
STALINGRAD
11. Put the following in the correct order: D-Day, Defeat of Hitler, Hiroshima, Death of FDR
D-DAY, DEATH OF FDR, DEFEAT OF HITLER, HIROSHIMA
12. What agreement best illustrates the policy of appeasement?
MUNICH PACT
13. Name 3 countries that tried to expand and gain new land in the 1930’s?
GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN
14. What foreign policy controlled U.S. action as hostility broke out in Europe in the 1930’s?
ISOLATION
15. What policy prevented the U.S. from joining the League of Nations?
ISOLATION
16. Name 4 European countries that developed totalitarian government after World War I?
SPAIN, ITALY, RUSSIA, GERMANY
17. What international agreement was an obvious failure in preventing war?
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
18. Name 3 agreements that could be considered failures in preventing World War II.
BREST-LITOVSK, PORTSMOUTH, KELLOGG-BRIAND
19. What 3 countries were involved in the non-aggression pact?
GERMANY, USSR, POLAND
20. What event was part of U.S. foreign policy during the 1930’s?
RECOGNITION OF THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF THE USSR
21. What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease program?
PROVIDE WEAPONS TO THE ALLIES
22. What European event caused Britain to declare war on Germany?
GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND
23. What area was affected by the Munich Pact?
SUDETENLAND
24. What American general promised, “I shall return.”?
MACARTHUR
25. List battles, plans and strategies that apply to fighting in Europe?
BLITZKRIEG, D-DAY, BATTLE OF THE BULGE

26. What strategy was used by Nazi troops during the invasion of Poland?
BLITZKRIEG
27. Who defeated General Rommel in North Africa in a battle of Tank divisions?
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON
28. Who was the leader of the US navy in the Pacific during WWII?
ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ
29. What agreement did Roosevelt and Churchill sign that outlined the war goals of their countries?
ATLANTIC CHARTER
30. Why were Nisei forced into relocation camps during World War II?
THEY WERE SEEN AS A THREAT TO U.S. SECURITY
31. What impact did World War II have on the Great Depression?
WORKERS GOT JOBS IN DEFENSE FACTORIES
32. What happened to African Americans during World War II?
SEGREGATED IN THE MILITARY
33. What are the four freedoms that Norman Rockwell draws in his poster to get American to buy war bonds?
FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, SPEECH, FROM WANT AND FROM FEAR
34. Who was the Japanese Emperor during World War II?
HIROHITO
35. Communism, Fascism and Nazism were all forms of what type of government?
TOTALITARIAN
36. What alliance was formed by Hitler and Mussolini in 1936?
AXIS
37. Name the 3 Allied leaders in World War II
CHURCHILL, STALIN, ROOSEVELT
38. Why did Britain declare war on Germany?
GERMANY INVADED POLAND
39. What Allied invasion was the largest amphibious invasion in history?
D-DAY (NORMANDY)
40. Where did McArthur promise to return?
PHILIPPINES
41. Which event led to the end of World War II?
BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA
42. What was the last major Offensive of the War for the Germans?
Battle of the Bulge
43. What do the Holocaust, segregation of black troops and imprisonment of Nisei have in common?
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION (RACISM)
44. What Nazi policy was used against Jews?
FINAL SOLUTION
45. What agreement was a long-term cause of World War II?
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
46. What foreign policy indicated whom the United States would support?
LEND-LEASE
47. During the Casablanca Conference what decision was made?
TO INCREASE THE BOMBING OF GERMANY IN AN EFFORT TO DESTORY ITS MILITARY,
INDUSTRAIL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM
48. What policy allowed Hitler to expand with little opposition?
APPEASEMENT
49. Where did Eisenhower, McArthur and Rommel see action?
EISENHOWER-EUROPE, MACARTHUR-PHILIPPINES, ROMMEL-NORTH AFRICA

50. In what battle did the British use the radar in with success and were able to turn back Hitler and the Luftwaffe?
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
51. List 4 features that were involved in Hitler’s rise to power?
REVENGE, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, MASTER RACE, TREATY OF VERSAILLES
52. What laws were passed by Congress in 1935 to keep the U.S. out of future wars?
NEUTRALITY ACTS
53. Name the area, person and policy that are related to the Munich Pact
SUDETENLAND, CHAMBERLAIN, APPEASEMENT
54. The Government Agencies Job was to set priorities and production goals and to control distribution of raw materials and supplies?
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
55. Who did Hitler blame for Germany’s defeat in World War I and economic problems during the 1920’s? JEWS
56. Name 4 German concentration camps
AUSCHWITZ, TREBLINKA, BUCHENWALD, BELSEN
57. What status was given to the U.S. with the passage of Lend-Lease?
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
58. The __________ are the first time that women are allowed in the military during War?
WACS
59. What event led Roosevelt to refer to the day as “a date which will live in infamy”?
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
60. How did the U.S. react to news that German scientists had split a uranium atom?
MANHATTAN PROJECT
61. Where did Soviet troops stop the German advance into the USSR? STALINGRAD
62. What strategy was used against the Japanese in the Pacific?
ISLAND HOPPING
63. What desperate strategy was used by the Japanese as Allies neared Japan?
KAMIKAZE
64. List terms that might be identified with the Manhattan Project.
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, MANHATTAN PROJECT, LOS ALAMOS
65. What happened at Nuremberg after World War II?
NAZI LEADERS WERE PUT ON TRIAL
66. What part of the United States were the Internment camps established?
Isolate western states
67. What was the ruling in Korematsu v. United States ?
JAPANESE-AMERICANS COULD BE SENT TO RELOCATION CENTERS
68. What did the Nuremberg trials emphasized? individual responsibility for actions during a war, regardless of orders received.
70. Why was the decision made to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES AND SHORTEN THE WAR
71. What marked the end to the fighting with Japan during WWII?
V-J Day
72. The Major results of the Tehran conference in 1943 were?
GREAT BRITAIN AND US WOULD OPEN SECOND FRONT AGAINST THE GERMANY IN EUROPE, THE
ALLIED POWERS WOULD DIVIDE UP GERMANY, AND THE USSR WOULD HELP THE ALLIED
DEFEAT JAPAN AFTER GERMANY WAS DEFEAted
73. The Bataan Death March occurred following: The first battle of the Philappines
74. The Cost Plus System was used to: encourage companies to work faster and produce more
75. Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb following? The battle of Okinawa
76. Most war products were produced by: the automobile industry
77. The Double V Campaign meant? Victory at home and abroad for African Americans
78. The Bracero Program helped farmers by? Mexican immigrants were allowed to enter the US to pick crops