WWII Study Guide

WWII Study Guide

Hitler

Poland

Czechoslovokia

Appeasement

Ethiopia

Anti-Semitism

Mussolini

Franco

Anschluss

Chamberlain

Atlantic Charter

Churchill

FDR

American foreign policy in the 1930’s

Gestapo

Maginot Line

De Gulle

Hirohito

Reasoning for the Atomic bomb

Stalin

Pearl Harbor

Lend Lease Act

Kristallnacht

Blitzkreig

D-Day invasion

Battle of the Coral Sea

Japanese detention camps

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Midway

Battle of Britain

El Alamein

Hiroshima

African American migration

Stalingrad

Truman

MacArthur

Hitler’s rise to power

Rommel

Montgomery

Auschwitz

Allied strategy during war (US, USSR, GB)

Nuremburg Trials

Eisenhower

Manhattan Project

Yalta Conference

“Final Solution”

kamakazi

Iwo Jima

Role of women during war

ESSAYS

1. What aspects of the Versailles Treaty caused bitterness in Germany after WWI? In what ways did Adolf Hitler fail to keep the terms of the treaty?

2. How did WWII shape the world for the next 50 years? Include in your answer political, social, geographic, and economic factors.

3. Explain the problem that occurred with the Jews after WWII and the Holocaust. How was this problem resolved and what were the consequences to the solution?