WWII Test Guide

WWII Test Guide

Resources:

-       All notes

-       Video sheet: Over the Edge- study all questions

-       Video sheet: The Homefront- study all questions

-       WWII map of Europe

Topics:

-       Causes of WWII

-       Dictatorships of Europe: Germany, Soviet Union, Italy, Japan- Study your chart; know leaders, type of government and goals

-       Reasons for invasion of Rhineland, Sudetanland

-       Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement

-       Neutrality Acts

-       Lend-Lease Act

-       D-Day

-       Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor? Date? Quote? What happened the next day?

-       Axis powers; Allies

-       FDR’s 4 Freedoms; Norman Rockwell paintings

-       Selective Training and Service Act

-       How did the American homefront change? Volunteers, rationing, victory gardens, role of women, Rosie the Riveter

-       Role of African Americans- Tuskagee Airmen, Double V Campaign

-       Japanese internment camps

-       Allies strategy at the beginning of the war

-       Victory in Europe- date

-       What happened at the Yalta Conference?

-       2 main goals of the war in the Pacific

-       Island-hopping

-       Potsdam Declaration

-       Atomic bombs- Hiroshima, Nagasaki

-       Victory in Japan day

-       Nuremburg Trials

People:  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, Norman Rockwell, Dwight Eisenhower