Take Home Test WWII
Moving Towards War (chap 15 sec 4)
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How did Japan begin to prepare for war in the 1920’s, 30’s? Where do we see Japanese Aggression first? (where do they
invade?)
What country did Italy invade? Why?
What did the League of Nations do when Japan & Italy invaded other countries? Why?
What happened in Spain? (1936)
How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles? Why did he do it?
Which countries did Hitler take first before the war began? What was his justification? What were the consequences?
How did Britain and France respond to Hitler taking control of other countries (conference)? What did Hitler promise? How is
this an example of appeasement? What is the US foreign policy?
What was the agreement between the Soviets and Hitler? How was it beneficial to both countries? Why were the allies upset?
What is the Rome, Berlin, Tokyo Axis?
WWII (chap 16)
10. Terms: (sec 1)
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Phony war
f. Luftwaffe
k. Total war
Blitzkrieg
g. Winston Churchill
l. Propaganda
Dunkirk
h. Suez Canal
m. V-E day
Charles De Gaulle
i. General Rommel
RAF
j. Scorched earth policy
Create a chart showing me which countries are fighting on which side.
How did the war start? What happened? How did the Soviet Union participate? Why did they participate?
What direction/ or through what countries did Hitler go after the Phony War?
What happened to France? What is the Vichy govt?
The battle for Britain was fought mainly where? Why did Hitler not invade? What did the Luftwaffe bomb and why? What was
the end result?
16. What happens in North Africa? Who invades first? What did the want access to in Egypt? What happens in the Balkans?
17. What happens in June of 42? What happened to the non-aggression Pact? What happens at Leningrad and Moscow? What is
the end result?
Turning the Tide of the War (section 4)
18. Why did the US join the war in Europe?
19. Where in the European theater did we invade first? (not actually in Europe) What happened there? Where in Europe did we
invade first? What happened to Mussolini?
20. What happens in the second invasion of the Soviet Union? What happens at Stalingrad?
21. What is D-Day? What was the result of D-Day?
22. What is the Battle of the Bulge? How did the last few months of the war go? What did Hitler do as the allies were approaching
Berlin?
US and the War/ War in the Pacific (sec2)
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Terms: (pg 826,section 2, 839,840)
Atlantic Charter
Lend/ Lease Act
Yamamoto
Baatan Death March
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Doolittle’s raid
Douglas MacArthur
Guadacanal
Kamikaze
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FDR (Roosevelt)
Undeclared naval warfare
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
24. How was the US involved with the Allies previous to the war?
25. What happened at Pearl Harbor? Why did they do it?
26. What happened for the next 6 months or so after Pearl Harbor in the Pacific? (what were the Japanese doing?) What areas did
the Japanese conquer?
27. What happened at Midway? Why was midway important? What was the US plan of attack in the Pacific?
28. What happens to the Japanese living in the US? (pg837)
29. Why did we drop the atomic bombs? What was the result? When did the war end?
Holocaust (sec 3)
30. Terms: Genocide, Krystallnacht, Nuremburg laws
31. How do we see building anti-Semitism and discrimination before the war in Germany?
32. What were Hitler’s first solutions to what he called his “Jewish problem”?
33. What was Hitler’s final solution? When do we see this begin?
34. Describe the events and treatment of the Jews. Why did the Jews not revolt?
End of the War
35. What are some of the problems that Europe is facing after the war?
36. What are the Nuremburg trials?
37. What does the US do in Japan at the end of the war? How does Japan change? What is demilitarization?