World War II – Study Guide
Modern World History
Identify the following figures from World War II.
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Neville Chamberlain
5. Winston Churchill
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Emperor Hirohito
8. Hideki Tojo
9. Harry Truman
10. Douglas MacArthur
11. Dwight Eisenhower
Make a Timeline of the following events (or just provide dates for them). There will be
questions of the test that require you to know the chronological order of selected events.
D-Day
German invasion of France
Pearl Harbor Attack
Battle of Britain
Germany Surrenders
Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of the
Japan Surrenders
USSR)
Nuremburg Trials
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Nuremburg Laws Enacted
Battle of Midway
Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Battle of Okinawa
Munich Conference
Stock Market Crashes
Japan Invasion of China
Germany invades Poland
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Treaty of Versailles
Short Answers
1. Why did people in Germany vote for the Nazis in the 1932 elections?
2. What common goals did Mussolini, Hitler, and Tojo/Hirohito have at the beginning of World
War II?
3. Why did the Allies use appeasement when trying to stop Hitler? Was it successful?
4. Why did Hitler and Stalin sign a nonaggression pact despite their contempt for each other?
5. Identify the key platform ideas of the Nazi, communist and pro-Weimar political parties.
6. Why could it be argued that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles are largely to blame for
World War II?
Define the following terms:
Fascism
Il Duce
Mein Kampf
Lebensraum
Kristallnacht
D-Day/Operation Overlord
Battle of Britain
Final Solution
The SS
Okinawa
Manchuria
Munich Pact
Sudetenland
Appeasement
US Neutrality
Invasion of Poland
Manhattan Project
Ghettos
Rape of Nanjing
Vichy vs. Free French governments
Auschwitz
Great Depression
Axis Powers/Allied Powers
Pearl Harbor
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Midway
Gestapo
Hitler Youth
Luftwaffe
Atomic Bombs