Study Guide - World War Two

You should be able to identify the following people, places and things. In addition, you should know all the information from your battle charts and maps. You can use the charts and maps on the test.

1.	Benito Mussolini	21.	Nazi-Soviet Pact	40.	Operation Barbarossa	59.	Elections of 1940, 1944
2.	Adolph Hitler	22.	Josef Stalin	41.	Invasion of the USSR	60.	Admiral Nimitz
3.	Mein Kampf	23.	Axis Powers	42.	Marshal Zhukov	61.	Gen. Montgomery
4.	Manchuria	24.	Allies	43.	Emperor Hirohito	62.	Gen. Rommel
5.	Good Neighbor Policy	25.	Blitzkrieg	44.	Admiral Yamamoto	63.	Enigma , Ultra and Magic
6.	Neutrality Acts	26.	“The Phony War”	45.	General Tojo	64.	Casablanca Conference
7.	Ethiopia	27.	Winston Churchill	46.	James Doolittle	65.	Gen. Eisenhower
8.	Nuremburg Laws	28.	Marshal Petain	47.	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	66.	Gen. George Patton
9.	Lebenstraum	29.	Vichy Government	48.	Final Solution	67.	Gen. Bradley
10.	The Saar	30.	Luftwaffe	49.	Auschwitz	68.	Teheran Conference
11.	Jesse Owens	31.	Hermann Goering	50.	Rape of Nanking	69.	Operation Overlord and D-Day
12.	Rhineland	32.	RAF	51.	War Powers Act	70.	Island Hopping
13.	Spanish Civil War	33.	"Cash and Carry Plan"	52.	George C. Marshall	71.	Yalta Conference
14.	Francisco Franco	34.	America First Committee	53.	Rationing	72.	V-E Day
15.	Anschluss	35.	"Arsenal of Democracy"	54.	Internment of Japanese/ WRA Camps	73.	Kamikaze Attacks
16.	Sudentenland	36.	Lend Lease Act	55.	Korematsu v. U.S.	74.	Potsdam Conference
17.	Neville Chamberlain	37.	Atlantic Charter	56.	Battle of the Atlantic	75.	Manhattan Project
18.	Appeasement	38.	U-Boats	57.	Gen. Douglas MacArthur	76.	V-J Day
19.	Munich	39.	Four Freedoms	58.	Bataan Death March	77.	Nuremberg Trials
20.	Kristallnacht

You should also be able to write short essays on any of the following topics.

1. Explain how each of the following contributed to the outbreak of World War II: (a) rise of dictators, (b) appeasement, (c) United States policy of isolation. List four events in Europe that led to war in Europe. Explain what happened in each one.

2. Describe how the Allies managed to defeat EITHER Germany of Japan. Be sure to include at least two important turning points in the drive to victory.

3. How did Americans organize for war on the home front? Give at least three examples.

4. Be able to put important events of the war in Europe in chronological order. Be able to do the same for important events in the Pacific.

Assignments

Tentative Due Date	Assignment	Tentative Due Date	Assignment
Mon., Apr. 29	Extra Credit begins for Outline	Mon., May 13	1. Quiz on WWII 2. Extra Credit begins for Project
Tues., April 30	1. Read p. 827 – 830 2. Reading Questions 1 - 7	Weds., May 15 or Thurs., May 16	Battle Chart
Thurs., May 2	1. Read p. 830 – 833 2. Reading Questions 8 – 14	Mon., May 20	Project Due (150% of Test Grade: lose 20 pts. a day it’s late)
Fri., May 3	1. Read p. 833-35, 838-47 2. Reading Questions 15-22	Tues., May 21	Maps
Mon., May 6	Outline Due (Quiz Grade)	Week of May 20	Test
Fri., May 10	Study Questions Worksheet

Questions on World War Two Reading

The Road to War (p. 827 – 830)
1.	What was “The Good Neighbor” policy?
2.	Summarize the legislation of isolationism during the 1930s.
3.	What did Japan do to challenge international peace?
4.	What did Italy do to challenge international peace?
5.	Summarize Hitler’s strategy for gaining territory by provoking crises.
6.	What happened at the Munich Conference?
7.	Summarize the steps between the Munich Conference and the outbreak of war on Sept. 1, 1939.
American Neutrality, 1939 – 1941 (p. 830-833)
8.	What laws did Congress pass in 1939 to try to maintain neutrality?
9.	What happened in the war between September, 1939 and June, 1940?
10.	Summarize the actions that the U.S. took to support the Allies from 1940 to 1941.
11.	What was Lend-Lease?
12.	What was the Atlantic Charter?
13.	What happened in the fall of 1941 to lead the Japanese to decide to attack the U.S.?
14.	Why was the Japanese attack “something of a failure?”
Mobilizing for Victory (p. 833-835; 838-842)
15.	Write one sentence summarizing how the American economy and industry mobilized for the war.
16.	Summarize the role of women and the war effort.
17.	How did labor unions win acceptance during the war, but also arouse hostility?
18.	How did the war affect African Americans and set the stage for improved civil rights after the war?
Life on the Home Front (p. 842-847)
19.	How did the war change the American economy?
20.	What items were rationed?
21.	How did the war affect family life?
22.	Summarize the American policy to Japanese-Americans on the West Coast during the war.
Fighting and Winning the War (p. 847-856)
23.	What was Stalin’s demand?
24.	Summarize what was decided at the Casablanca and Teheran Conferences.
25.	Outline or summarize the events in the war in Europe from 1942 to May 8, 1945.
26.	Outline or summarize the events in the war in the Pacific from 1942 to the fall of 1945.
27.	What was agreed at the Yalta Conference?

Map Assignment

A. World War II in Europe and North Africa

1. On the map, neatly label the following.

Great Britain	Hungary	Latvia	Turkey	Berlin	London	Caspian Sea
Germany	Slovakia	Estonia	Egypt	Moscow	North Sea	El Alamein
France	Poland	Norway	Libya	Paris	Mediterranean Sea	Moscow
Spain	Rumania	Sweden	Algeria	Vichy France	Baltic Sea	Leningrad
Italy	Greece	Denmark	Morocco	Rome	Atlantic Ocean	Stalingrad
Yugoslavia	Lithuania	USSR	Tunisia	Dunkirk	Black Sea	Normandy
Austria	Switzerland	Finland	Sicily

2. Use different colors or patterns to shade

(A) Allied countries

(B) Axis countries

(C) Neutral countries (use a different color for those that remain neutral throughout the war)

(D) Areas controlled by the Axis through 1942.

3. Create a key.

B. World War II in the Pacific

1. Neatly label the following.

Japan	China	Philippines	Pearl Harbor	Wake Island	Iwo Jima
USSR	Hong Kong	Korea	Philippines	Midway Island	Okinawa
Mongolia	French Indochina	Hawaii	Coral Sea	Guadalcanal	Hiroshima
Manchuria (Manchukuo)	New Guinea	Solomon Islands	Marshall Islands	Saipan	Nagasaki

Kamikaze Attacks

American Neutrality, 1939 – 1941 (p. 830-833)

Mobilizing for Victory (p. 833-835; 838-842)

Life on the Home Front (p. 842-847)

Fighting and Winning the War (p. 847-856)

Map Assignment

A. World War II in Europe and North Africa

B. World War II in the Pacific