WWII Study Guide Answers!
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Who was?
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Il Duce – Benito Mussolini – Italian leader
Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union leader
George Patton – US general (Europe)
Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister
Adolf Hitler – Chancellor of Germany (leader of Nazi party)
Dorris Miller (Dorrie) – African American who won Navy Cross
(bravery)
Douglas MacArthur – US general (Pacific)
Chester Nimitz – adopted Island Hopping in Pacific
FDR – Franklin D. Roosevelt – US president (4 terms)
Erwin Rommel – AKA…Desert Fox; German General (Africa &
France)
Rosie the Riveter – propaganda to persuade women to help with
war effort
Navajo soldiers – Native American Indians – used as code talkers
(radio operators)
Dwight D. Eisenhower – US military leader (Europe/D-day)
Harry S. Truman - American President; ordered the Atomic
Bomb to be dropped
What was?
• Manhattan Project – Secret group that developed
Atomic Bomb
• Nazi/Soviet Non-Aggressive Pact – Both agreed to
“share” Poland
• Suez Canal – Link between Europe & Africa/Allies
stopped the Nazis
• Bataan Death March – Philippines; thousands of US
soldiers died
• Biggest Naval Battle in History – Leyte Gulf
• Operation Overlord – D Day (Normandy France)
• Enola Gay – plane that dropped Atomic Bomb (on
Hiroshima)
• Lend-Lease Act – Lend Allies supplies
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Little Boy – Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima)
Fat Man – Atomic Bomb (Nagasaki)
WACs – Women’s Army Corp
WAVEs – Women Appointed for Volunteer
Emergency Service in the Navy
• WASPs – Women’s Air Force Service Pilots
• Normandy – site of D-day invasion in France
Dates of??
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Hitler invades Poland – Sept. 1, 1939
Pearl Harbor – Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 @ 7:55am
D-Day – June 6, 1944
FDR died – April 12, 1945
V-E day – May 8, 1945 (Victory in Europe)
Atomic Bomb – Aug. 6, 1945 & Aug. 9, 1945
V-J Day – Aug. 15, 1945 (Victory in Japan)
Define
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Fascism – extreme nationalism & racism
Mobilization – prepare for war
Lightning war – Blitzkreig
Disarmament – give up weapons
Ration – limit supplies
Dictator – leader that controls with fear
Kamikaze – suicide pilots (Japanese)
Internment camps – camps for Japanese-Americans
living in the US
Possible Short Answer & Essay
Questions!
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What was the first country Mussolini invaded?
Ethiopia
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What started WWII? Axis powers invaded Poland
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Who invaded Manchuria? Japan
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Why did the Allied troops retreat to the port of
Dunkirk? Belgium fell; Maginot Line crossed; Nazis
closing in….What happened at Dunkirk? Troops were
rescued by Great Britain/crossed the English
Channel/all types of boats used
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What ended American neutrality? Pearl Harbor
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What did Hitler do as a result of his failure in
Battle of Britain? Went after the Soviet Union
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How did the US finance the war effort? War
bonds & taxes
How did the British deceive the Axis Powers when
planning the invasion of Italy? Great Britain used a
dead body dressed in military uniform & carrying
“secret” documents, and put the body in the water off
coast of Spain. The documents said the Allies would
invade Italy from the Balkans. But really the Allies
invaded from Sicily.
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