US History
Topic 10 Study Guide – World War II and the Holocaust
Notes – The Coming of the Storm; Bushido: The Spirit Warriors; The Nation Mobilized; The Application of Force; The Final Solution; The Resistance
Reading – Hitler Changes the West (packet) Stimson’s justification for the use of the Atomic Bomb (packet); Revisionist Arguments Against the A-Bombs; “Hot” Historical Issues: A-Bomb; A Noiseless Flash (packet); The Holocaust (packet); Elie Wiesel’s Night
Names to Know
Ø Benito Mussolini
Ø Adolf Hitler
Ø Neville Chamberlain
Ø Winston Churchill
Ø Joseph Stalin
Ø Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ø Harry S. Truman
Ø Jeanette Rankin
Ø General Erwin Rommel
Ø General George S. Patton
Ø General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ø General MacArthur
Ø Admiral Nimitz
Ø General Yamayoto
Ø Eva Braun
Ø Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ø Col. Paul W. Tibbets
Ø Emperor Hirohito
Ø Dr. Josef Mengele
Ø Henry S. Stimson
Ø Joseph Goebbels
Ø Heinrich Himmler
Ø Bielski Brothers
Ø Hannah Szenes
Ø Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary
Ø Totalitarianism
Ø Volk or Aryan
Ø Lebensraum
Ø Lend-Lease
Ø Anschluss
Ø Kristallnacht
Ø Isolationism
Ø Leapfrogging
Ø Einsatzgruppen
Ø Gestapo
Ø Third Reich
Ø Anti-Semitism
Ø Pogroms
Ø Freikorps
Ø Wehrmacht
Ø Luftwaffe
Ø Blitzkrieg
Ø Yamato damashii
Ø Bushido
Ø Gaizin
Ø Hakku Ichiu
Ø Kamikaze
Ø Stutzpunkten
Ø Reprisal
Ø Hibakusha
Ø Untermenschen
Concepts, Short Answer, & Multiple Choice
Ø Kellogg-Briand Pact
Ø characteristics of Fascism
Ø demagoguery
Ø ideas in Mein Kampf
Ø Appeasement
Ø Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Act
Ø Operation Barbarossa
Ø Japanese militarism, culture
Ø rise of imperial Japan
Ø Rape of Nanking
Ø Pearl Harbor
Ø kamikaze and kairyu
Ø Anti-German vs. Anti-Japanese propaganda
Ø Executive Order 9066
Ø Japanese internment
Ø Nisei vs. Isei
Ø results of women’s mobilization into the workforce
Ø publicity/propaganda campaign directed towards women
Ø Native American “Code Talkers”
Ø Reasons for “Germany first” war plans
Ø distrust among the allies
Ø Declaration of United Nations and the Atlantic Charter
Ø Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” and the “Atlantic Wall”
Ø Allied Offensives à
o “Strategic” Bombing
o North Africa
o Italy
o Normandy à why did it almost fail?
Ø Doolittle Raids
Ø “Leapfrogging” in the Pacific
Ø Battle of Saipan
Ø Bataan Death March
Ø Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Ø effectiveness of carpet bombing/firebombing in Japan
Ø Manhattan Project
Ø Potsdam Declaration
Ø Enola Gay
Ø Holocaust & genocide
Ø Nuremberg Laws
Ø Wannsee Conference
Ø “Final Solution”
Ø coping mechanisms of the perpetrators of the Holocaust à how/why could they kill people in this way?
Ø Camp Darwin
Ø American response to the Holocaust
Ø Jewish Resistance movements
o The White Rose
o Jewish Brigade
o Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw & Vilna)
o Jewish Partisan fighters à Bielski Brothers