US History
Topic 10 Study Guide – World War II and the Holocaust
Notes – The Coming of the Storm; Bushido: The Spirit Warriors; The Nation Mobilized; The Application of
Force; The Final Solution; The Resistance
Reading – Hitler Changes the West (packet) Stimson’s justification for the use of the Atomic Bomb (packet);
Revisionist Arguments Against the A-Bombs; “Hot” Historical Issues: A-Bomb; A Noiseless Flash (packet); The
Holocaust (packet); Elie Wiesel’s Night
Names to Know
 Benito Mussolini
 Adolf Hitler
 Neville Chamberlain
 Winston Churchill
 Joseph Stalin
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
 Harry S. Truman
 Jeanette Rankin
 General Erwin Rommel
 General George S. Patton
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower
 General MacArthur
 Admiral Nimitz
 General Yamayoto
 Eva Braun
 Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Col. Paul W. Tibbets
 Emperor Hirohito
 Dr. Josef Mengele
 Henry S. Stimson
 Joseph Goebbels
 Heinrich Himmler
 Bielski Brothers
 Hannah Szenes
 Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary
 Totalitarianism
 Volk or Aryan
 Lebensraum
 Lend-Lease
 Anschluss
 Kristallnacht
 Isolationism
 Leapfrogging
 Einsatzgruppen
 Gestapo
 Third Reich
 Anti-Semitism
 Pogroms
 Freikorps
 Wehrmacht
 Luftwaffe
 Blitzkrieg
 Yamato damashii
 Bushido
 Gaizin
 Hakku Ichiu
 Kamikaze
 Stutzpunkten
 Reprisal
 Hibakusha
 Untermenschen
Concepts, Short Answer, & Multiple Choice
 Kellogg-Briand Pact
 characteristics of Fascism
 demagoguery
 ideas in Mein Kampf
 Appeasement
 Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Act
 Operation Barbarossa
 Japanese militarism, culture
 rise of imperial Japan
 Rape of Nanking
 Pearl Harbor
 kamikaze and kairyu
 Anti-German vs. Anti-Japanese propaganda
 Executive Order 9066
 Japanese internment
 Nisei vs. Isei
 results of women’s mobilization into the workforce
 publicity/propaganda campaign directed towards women
 Native American “Code Talkers”
 Reasons for “Germany first” war plans
 distrust among the allies
 Declaration of United Nations and the Atlantic Charter
 Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” and the “Atlantic Wall”
 Allied Offensives 
o “Strategic” Bombing
o North Africa
o Italy
o Normandy  why did it almost fail?
 Doolittle Raids
 “Leapfrogging” in the Pacific
 Battle of Saipan
 Bataan Death March
 Iwo Jima and Okinawa
 effectiveness of carpet bombing/firebombing in Japan
 Manhattan Project
 Potsdam Declaration
 Enola Gay
 Holocaust & genocide
 Nuremberg Laws
 Wannsee Conference
 “Final Solution”
 coping mechanisms of the perpetrators of the Holocaust  how/why could they kill people in this way?
 Camp Darwin
 American response to the Holocaust
 Jewish Resistance movements
o The White Rose
o Jewish Brigade
o Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw & Vilna)
o Jewish Partisan fighters  Bielski Brothers
If only he had
stuck with
ART…