IB US History
WWII Study Guide
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Documents
a. Theodore Geisel cartoons
b. Arsenal of Democracy
c. Charles Lindberg speech
d. Atlantic Charter
e. FDR War Speech
f. Churchill Quotes
Broad Concepts and groups
a. Isolation
b. Engagement
c. Collective security
d. Self-Determination
e. Allies
f. Axis
g. Strategic (Carpet) bombing
h. Lessons of WWI
i. Russian vs. American vs. British views of WWII
j. Russian vs. American vs. British experience of WWII
k. US reaction to Holocaust
l. Double V Campaign
Legislation, treaties and meetings
a. Neutrality Acts
b. Lend-Lease
c. Wartime rationing and price control agencies
d. Munich
e. Atlantic Charter meeting
f. Declaration of United Nations
g. Casablanca
h. Cairo
i. Tehran
j. Yalta
k. Potsdam
Science and technology
a. Codes
b. Code breakers
c. Turing
d. Bletchley Park/ULTRA
e. Enigma
f. Code talkers
g. Radar
h. V Rockets
i. Aircraft carriers
j. Manhattan Project
k. Nazi Medical experiments
i. Doctors Trial
ii. Nuremburg Codes
l. Operation Paperclip
i. Werner von Braun
Strategy and Battles
a. American Pre-war military #s
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b. British/American Approach to war (Citizen-soldiers)
c. Russian Approach to war
d. German approach to war
i. Execution #s
e. Japanese Warrior Code
f. Nanking
g. Pearl Harbor
h. Bataan
i. Operation Vengeance
j. Doolittle Raids
k. Midway
l. Island Hopping (“whither on the vine”)
m. Strategic bombing
n. Firebombing of Tokyo
o. Guadalcanal
p. Leyte Gulf
q. Iwo Jima
r. Saipan
s. Kamikaze
t. Hiroshima
u. Nagasaki
v. Torch (N. Africa)
w. Italy/Sicily
x. Overlord/D-Day
y. Unconditional surrender
z. Battle of the Bulge
aa. Eastern Front v. Western Front
bb. Russian soldiers shot for desertion:
cc. German soldiers shot for desertion:
dd. US/British soldiers shot for desertion:
ee. Operation Mincemeat
ff. Stalin demand for 2nd front
gg. Warsaw Uprising
People
a. FDR
b. Hitler
c. Stalin
d. Churchill
e. Mussolini
f. Chiang Kai Shek
g. Harry S Truman
h. Douglas Macarthur
i. Dwight Eisenhower
j. Einstein (FDR Letter)
k. J. Robert Oppenheimer
l. German-Jewish (and Hungarian and Italian) Physicists: Manhattan project
Effects
a. Poland
i. Situation at beginning of War
ii. Situation at end of War
b. Germany (East/West and Berlin)
c. Berlin
d. Japan
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Eastern Europe
War Crimes: Nuremburg Trials/Japan
UN
Marshall Plan
GI Bill
Containment (George Kennan: “…Soviet power, like the capitalist world of its conception, bears within it
the seeds of its own decay…)
Truman Doctrine
National Security Act of 1947: CIA
The “Iron Curtain”
NATO
Israel/Palestine