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