WWII Study Guide Name______

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Define these terms.

1.  Totalitarianism

2.  Fascism

3.  Neutrality Acts

4.  Potsdam Conference

5.  Yalta Conference

6.  OPA

7.  WPB

8.  Tuskegee Airmen

9.  Atlantic Charter

10.  442 Regiment

11.  Francisco Franco

12.  Charles de Gaulle

13.  George Patton

14.  Douglas MacArthur

15.  Dwight Eisenhower

Answer each of the following questions

16.  What was the tactic the Nazis used when invading European countries?

17.  What policy was used by the leaders of Europe in dealing with Hitler’s aggression?

18.  What are the parts of the Neutrality Acts?

19.  Describe the Cash-Carry Program.

20.  What aid to countries whose defense was believed to be vital to the US?

21.  How did the US finance the majority of the war?

22.  What was the “victory gardens” and it’s purpose?

23.  Outline FDR and Churchill’s plans for the war.

24.  Which battle in the summer of 1941 kept Germany from being able to invade Great Britain:

25.  Which battle did Germany use unrestricted submarine warfare against US ships?

26.  Which battle was part of the Allied attack on the “soft underbelly” of Europe:

27.  Which was the major result of the Battle of Stalingrad?

28.  In attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan hoped to:

29.  Why did the Japanese 1st target American planes and airstrips in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

30.  Which D-Day beaches was made up of mostly US fighting forces?

31.  What was the official military name for D-Day

32.  In which city did Hitler believe the Allied invasion would take place?

33.  The Battle of the Bulge represented:

34.  Island-Hopping refers to:

35.  What was the significance of the Battle of the Coral Sea?

36.  In this battle the US was able to sink 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, effectively preventing Japan from launching any offensive strikes:

37.  Which battles allowed the US to retake the Philippines?

38.  Which Pacific battles put the US only 750 miles from Japan, allowing bombing raids over Japan to begin?

39.  In which Pacific battle did the US take back its 1st Japanese controlled island?

40.  What was the significance behind the Battle of Okinawa?

41.  Describe the significance of dropping of the atomic bomb:

42.  By the summer of 1945, why had the US decided to prevent the Soviets from entering the war in the Pacific?

43.  What was the code name for the creation of the atomic bomb?

44.  Why was FDR willing to make concessions to Stalin at Yalta?

45.  Describe the Yalta conference, and how many temporary occupation zones was decided that Germany would be divided in to.

46.  Who oversaw the US occupation of Japan after WW2?

47.  Was Japan allowed to keep their Emperor after WW2.

48.  Describe the Nuremberg Trials:

49.  Was the Santa Anita racetrack was once a Japanese internment camp.

50.  What was the outcome of Korematsu v. US: