World War II – Origins and Fighting Test – Version 1.0
*Questions may be added but won’t be subtracted so doing this now will NOT hurt you.
Test is over the following material:
*Origins of WWII Reading (Class Set – available on my webpage) – orange and pink note sheets in class
*Fighting World War II Reading (Class Set – available on my webpage) – annotated map sheets
*Chapter 11 (except section 3)
*Chapter 12
Chapter 11 and 1st Reading Hand Out (Origins of WWII – Available in class and on website)
1. What kind of government system did Stalin establish in the Soviet Union?
2. Who founded the first fascist political movement?
3. How did Hitler break the nonaggression pact in 1941?
4. What caused Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany?
5. What was the Lend-Lease act?
6. Which event caused FDR to ask Congress for a declaration of war?
7. What area did Hitler first “unify” with Germany?
8. What did Britain and France give Hitler in the Munich Conference?
9. Define fascism, militarism, totalitarianism, and Nazism.
10. How did Stalin control the Communist party in the Soviet Union?
11. What was the Battle of Britain?
12. What enabled dictators to come to power in Europe?
13. Why was the Nye Committee established? What was the result of their findings?
14. What did the Neutrality Acts of 1935 forbid?
15. Who was in the Axis powers?
16. What was the Atlantic Charter?
17. What were FDR’s Four Freedoms and who was he trying to shift support toward?
18. What was the Neutrality Act of 1939?
19. What is internationalism?
20. What kind of government did Stalin establish in the Soviet Union?
Chapter 12 and Fighting World War II Reading – Found on my website and in class
21. What was the cost-plus system and how did it speed up war production?
22. Why were Liberty ships were produced quickly?
23. Why did FDR decide to invade Morocco and Algeria?
24. What was Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island?
25. Why did the Allies place rubber tanks and decoy materials along the coast of Britain?
26. Why was Iwo Jima an important objective for the American military?
27. Who made nearly 1/3 of all US military equipment during the war?
28. Where did the Bataan Death March occur?
29. What was the major key to the American success at Midway?
30. Why was capturing Stalingrad an important part to Hitler’s strategy?
31. A result of the Allied attack on Sicily was what??? (had to do with Mussolini)
32. Why were US women recruited into the military during the war?
33. What does “double V” campaign mean?
34. Why did Churchill and FDR decide to attack the edges of the German empire at first?
35. How did the US protect American ships from the German submarines?
36. Why was the battle of Stalingrad a turning point in the war?
37. What did FDR and Stalin agree to at the Tehran conference?
38. How did the Japanese try to defend Iwo Jima?
39. What was the Manhattan project?
40. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?
41. What did the Nazis decide was the final solution to the “Jewish Question”
42. What was the Allies military strategy in the Pacific?
43. What prompted Japan to surrender to the Allies in August 1945?