CHAPTER 17 REVIEW
WWII
TERMS AND PEOPLE
• FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN SQUADRON
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
• LEADER OF ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE; LATER BECAME PRESIDENT; ENERGETIC AMERICAN
OFFICER
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
• MADE OF POWERFUL NATIONS THAT ENCOURAGED COOPERATION BETWEEN GREAT
NATIONS; ESTABLISHED AFTER WWII
UNITED NATIONS (UN)
• MOST DECORATED MILITARY UNIT IN U.S. HISTORY; ALL-NISEI UNIT (JAPANESE-AMERICAN)
442ND REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
• “BIG THREE” MEETING TO DISCUSS POSTWAR PLANS; THEY MET BEFORE WAR WAS OFFICIALLY
OVER
YALTA CONFERENCE
TERMS AND PEOPLE
• U.S. ORGANIZATION DESIGNED TO AID EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS
WAR REFUGEE BOARD
• LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN GOODS THAT CIVILIANS BUY; (MEAT, BUTTER, RUBBER,
GASOLINE)
RATIONING
• STRATEGY USED FOR CAPTURING STRATEGIC PACIFIC LOCATIONS
ISLAND HOPPING
• WILLFUL DESTRUCTION OF A RACIAL, POLITICAL OR CULTURAL GROUP
GENOCIDE
• AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO CAMPAIGNED AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE UNITED
STATES
A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH
KEY CONCEPTS
• WHY DID THE ALLIES ADOPT THE “EUROPE FIRST” STRATEGY?
GERMANY WAS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS LONG-TERM THREAT
• WHY DID STALIN WANT TO OPEN A SECOND FRONT IN FRANCE?
HE WANTED TO DIVIDE GERMANY’S ARMY
• FOR WHAT IS REINHARD HEYDRICH KNOWN AT THE 1942 WANNSEE CONFERENCE?
HE WAS A GERMAN NAZI WHO OUTLINED A PLAN TO KILL 11,000,000 JEWS
• WHAT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S MAIN REASON FOR USING THE ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN?
HE WAS SAVING AMERICAN LIVES IN JAPAN
• WHY DID JAPANESE AMERICANS FACE MORE DISCRIMINATION THAN ITALIAN AMERICANS OR GERMAN
AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II?
THEY WERE ISOLATED FROM OTHER AMERICANS; LACKED POLITICAL CLOUT
KEY CONCEPTS
• WHAT WERE THE JAPANESE GOALS IN THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY?
TO FORCE US BACK TO CALIFORNIA SO THEY COULD CONTROL ALL OF THE PACIFIC
INCLUDING HAWAII
• WHERE DID THE WORST INCIDENT OF RACIAL VIOLENCE OCCUR AS A RESULT OF
WARTIME MIGRATION?
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
• WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE DID NAZIS BELIEVE WHERE THE MOST SUPERIOR?
ARYAN
• WHAT HAPPENED TO COLONIALISM AFTER WWII?
IT LOST POPULARITY AS PEOPLE WORKED FOR INDEPDENDENCE FROM EUROPEAN
POWERS
• HOW DID WWII AFFECT WOMEN?
THEY TOOK NON-TRADITIONAL JOBS OUTSIDE OF THE HOME
KEY CONCEPTS
• WHAT WAS EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066?
DESIGNATED WAR ZONES FROM WHICH ANYONE COULD BE REMOVED
• WHO CREATED THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION?
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
• WHAT BATTLE ENDED HITLER’S PLANS OF EVER DOMINATING EUROPE?
STALINGRAD
• WHY WERE MANY JEWS PREVENTED FROM LEAVING GERMANY?
SOME COUNTRIES REFUSED TO ACCEPT THEM DURING THE GREAT
DEPRESSION
• HOW DID NAZI CAMP LEADERS IDENTIFY PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT GROUPS IN THE
CAMPS?
DIFFERENT GROUPS HAS DIFFERENT SYMBOLS WITH DIFFERENT COLORS
KEY CONCEPTS
• WHAT WAS A MAJOR RESULT OF THE BATTLE MIDWAY?
JAPAN WAS ON THE DEFENSE; JAPAN NEVER AGAIN THREATENED
PACIFIC DOMINATION
• HOW DID POLITICS IN JAPAN CHANGE AFTER WWII?
A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN AND DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENT WAS FORMED
• WHICH TWO NATIONS EMERGED AS SUPER POWERS AFTER WWII?
UNITED STATES  AND SOVIET UNION 
• WHAT DID MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS VOLUNTARILY DO AFTER WWII?
JOINED GROUPS THAT WORKED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND FOUGHT
TO END SEGREGRATION