VUS.11/12

Study Guide

  1. Who was president during World War II?

  1. What event started World War II in Europe?

  1. What were the Axis nations during World War II?

  1. What was the Battle of Britain?

  1. What country did Hitler invade in mid-1941?

  1. What was the position of the U.S. during the first two years of World War II?

  1. What policy had strong support in the U.S. during the first two years of World War II?

  1. Identify the Lend-Lease Act.

  1. How did America’s policy towards Japan change after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and China?

  1. Why did U.S. get involved in World War II?

  1. Who was the leader of Germany during World War II?

  1. Who were the Allies in World War II?

  1. Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II?

  1. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

  1. What strategy did the Allies follow?

  1. What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?

  1. What happened at the Normandy landings or D-Day?

  1. Who was commander of the Allied forces at the D-Day invasion?

  1. What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

  1. What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific?

  1. What two Pacific islands did the Americans invade to get closer to Japan?

  1. How did the U.S. end the war in the Pacific?

  1. During World War II, who took factory jobs when the men went to war?

  1. What image represented American women who worked in factories during World War II?

  1. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

  1. What were the Nisei regiments?

  1. What Native American language was used by the U.S. military during World War II for communication codes in the Pacific?

  1. What international agreement set the rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war?

  1. What happened on the Bataan Death March?

  1. What is genocide?

  1. What was the Holocaust?

  1. What was Hitler’s “final solution”?

  1. What were the Nuremberg Trials?

  1. In 1948 what nation was founded by Jewish settler living in Palestine?

  1. How did the U.S. maintain an adequate supply of products for the war effort?

  1. How did the Roosevelt administration finance World War II?

  1. What African-American leader led the fight for desegregation of the armed forces and equal hiring in defense jobs?

  1. What was the Selective Service Act?

  1. What happened to most Japanese-Americans during World War II?

  1. How did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu v. United States?

  1. What was the role of the American media and entertainment industries during World War II?

  1. Define nationalism.

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