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Study Questions on World War Two

I. Write the term in front of its description below. You may find it helpful to refer to your Study Guides and other notes. (Hint, hint)

1.	________________	practice of giving in to aggression to avoid conflict
2.	________________	swift, massive military attack
3.	________________	German air force
4.	________________	group led by Mussolini
5.	________________	political party organized by Hitler
6.	________________	Law that allowed sales or loans of war materials to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States."
7.	________________	document issued by FDR and Churchill in 1941 to set up goals for the postwar world
8.	________________	part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler claimed
9.	________________	"night of broken glass" when Germans attacked Jews and their property
10.	________________	nations that fought the Allies in WWII. Included Germany, Italy and Japan
11.	________________	area of Germany that had been demilitarized after WWI but Hitler moved troops there in 1936
12.	________________	agreement between Hitler and Stalin to split up eastern Europe
13.	________________	French government that collaborates with the Nazi occupation
14.	________________	Nazi plan for extermination of all the Jews
15.	________________	when thousands of American prisoners of war were killed or died of starvation in the Philippines
16.	________________	site of declaration by Truman, Churchill, and Stalin that Japan must surrender unconditionally or face utter destruction
17.	________________	site of conference of FDR, Churchill and Stalin that planned out Normandy invasion
18.	________________	Region of W. Germany rich in coal that France had administered after WWI but reunited with Germany in 1935
19.	________________	Laws that American isolationists passed in the 1930s to keep us out of a European war
20.	________________	site of conference where FDR, Churchill and Stalin which produced the groundwork for the postwar division of Europe among the Allies

II. Fill in the name of the battle or military action described below.

1.	________________	place where Allies are trapped in 1940 and have to be ferried across the Channel in every available boat
2.	________________	country whose invasion precipitated WWII
3.	________________	site of surprise attack on US by Japan
4.	________________	Chinese city where Japanese kill thousands of civilians in 1937
5.	________________	naval battle fought in the air that is the turning point in the Pacific and prevents the Japanese from attacking Hawaii or Australia
6.	________________	site of 900 day siege of a Russian city by the Nazis
7.	________________	island in the Solomon Islands that becomes an Allied base for counterattack
8.	________________	bloodiest battle of Pacific, on island just 350 miles from Japanese home islands
9.	________________	British victory in North Africa
10.	________________	site of first atomic bomb used against Japan
11.	________________	fierce German counterattack in 1944 that slowed the Allies but did not stop them
12.	________________	small, volcanic island SW of Japan that had the last of Japan's radar defense
13.	________________	Italian island that was site of Allied invasion of Italy and eventual downfall of Italy’s fascist government
14.	________________	Allied invasion of France in 1944
15.	________________	Turning point on eastern front where Soviets forced Nazi army to surrender
16.	________________	site of doomed Jewish rebellion against Nazis
17.	________________	African country invaded by Italy

III. Identify the correct people described below.

1.	________________	leader of Fascists in Spanish Civil War
2.	________________	Regarded as Germany's best general, eventually defeated in Northern Africa
3.	________________	US general who was chased out of the Philippines but eventually returned in 1944
4.	________________	US general who was the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe
5.	________________	British Prime Minister who thought he had achieved an agreement with Hitler guaranteeing "peace in our time"
6.	________________	Italian dictator
7.	________________	Soviet dictator British Prime Minister whose stirring speeches inspired the British during the Blitz
8.	________________
9.	________________	Became president when FDR died
10.	________________	Soviet general who led Soviet resistance to the Nazis at Stalingrad
11.	________________	Japanese leader worshipped as a god
12.	________________	Military dictator in Japan who ordered attack on Pearl Harbor
13.	________________	French leader of Vichy collaborationist government
14.	________________	Led raid on Tokyo in 1942
15.	________________	British general who won battle of El Alamein and led British forces in Europe
16.	________________	American president who arranged loan of destroyers to Britain
17.	________________	Japanese military leader who led their forces at Pearl Harbor and Midway and was killed in an air ambush
18.	________________	American naval leader in Pacific who began policy of “island hopping”
19.	________________	In charge of the German Luftwaffe
20.	________________	American general in charge of US army at D-Day

IV. Rewrite the following events in chronological order.

Atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima	1.	________________________________________________
Battle of Midway	2.	________________________________________________
Battle of Britain	3.	________________________________________________
Battle of the Bulge	4.	________________________________________________
D-Day	5.	________________________________________________
Germany annexes Austria	6.	________________________________________________
Germany moves into the Sudentenland	7.	________________________________________________
Invasion of Poland	8.	________________________________________________
Lend-Lease Act	9.	________________________________________________
Pearl Harbor	10.	________________________________________________
Potsdam Declaration	11.	________________________________________________
V-E Day	12.	________________________________________________
V-J Day	13.	________________________________________________