US History
WWII Test Study Guide
What is facism?
454
Who is Joseph Stalin?
455
How did Adolf Hitler rise to power?
456
What is the Nye Committee?
458
What are the motives for the Nuetrality Acts?
458-459
Why did Hitler want to control the Anchluss?
460
What is appeasement? How did it lead to WWII?
461
What is the Nazi-Soviet pact?
462
What is blitzkrieg?
462
What is the Maginot line and why did it fail?
462
What is the significance of Dunkirk?
463
What is the significance of the Battle of Britain?
465
What are the Nuremburg laws?
466
What is the final solution?
470-471
What is the Destroyers for bases deal?
474
What did isolationists argue for?
475
What is the lend-lease act?
476
Pearl Harbor
479
What did Roosevelt do to prepare for WWII?
486-487
Why are cost-plus contracts beneficial?
488
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
492
What were women’s role in the armed forces?
493
Who is Chester Nimitz?
494
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
494
What is the Bataan death march?
495
Midway
496
Why did the US attack the periphery of the German Empire? 497
Who are the major players in the battle for N. Africa?
497-498
How did American Industry help win the battle for the Atlantic?
498-499
Stalingrad
499
Japanese Internment camps
504-505
What is the Casablanca Conference?
508
What is the Tehran conference?
510
d-day
509-510
Island Hopping
513-515
What is the significance of the Battle of the Bulge?
518
Why did the US firebomb Japan?
521
What is the Manahattan project?
522-523
Why did Truman drop the bomb
523, Internet sources
What are the Nuremberg Trails?
525
What is the purpose of the United Nations?
524
Essay: Is the United States justified in it’s decision to drop the Atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Explain your answer.