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World War II Bookwork

Directions: Use your textbook beginning Chapter 13, pg. 455 to answer the following questions.

1.  Who founded Italy’s Fascist Party?

2.  What political group did Mussolini criticize in order to boost his popularity?

3.  Who took over for Vladimir Lenin?

4.  What Austrian admired Mussolini?

5.  What was the title of Hitler’s book? What does that mean in English?

6.  What country did Japan invade in 1931?

7.  What did the Neutrality Act of 1935 do?

8.  Who became known as the Axis Powers?

9.  What did Anschluss mean?

10.  Define appeasement:

11.  What did blitzkrieg mean?

12.  What was the Maginot line?

13.  Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of England?

14.  What was the Luftwaffe?

15.  What new technology did the Royal Air force develop?

16.  What religious group was targeted by the Nuremberg Laws?

17.  What does “kristallnacht” mean?

18.  Who were the Gestapo?

19.  What was Hitler’s “final solution to the Jewish question”?

20.  Did Roosevelt give Churchill the destroyers he asked for?

21.  What group was stanchly isolationist in the U.S.?

22.  What was the lend lease act?

23.  What finally brought the U.S. into WWII?

24.  What type of pressure did Roosevelt put on Japan to hinder their aggression?

25.  What product did the U.S. stop trading with Japan?

Directions: Use your textbook beginning Chapter 14, pg. 486 to answer the following questions.

1.  Who was president when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

2.  What industry changed production in order to make tanks?

3.  Whose shipyard created the Liberty ship?

4.  Was the American military segregated during WWII?

5.  Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

6.  In what year did Congress first allow women the military?

7.  What was the abbreviation for the group of American female pilots?

8.  What General was ordered to evacuate Australia?

9.  Who was put in charge of the mission to bomb Tokyo?

10.  What battle was the turning point of the war with Japan?

11.  Who was nicknamed the desert fox?

12.  Which battle was a turning point of the war with Germany?

13.  What female character became a symbol of the campaign to hire women?

14.  Describe a zoot suit:

15.  What administration was created to help stabilize wages and prices?

16.  Define rationing:

17.  What were Victory gardens?

18.  What did the word “kamikaze” mean in Japanese?

19.  What was V-E day?

20.  Who became president after Roosevelt?

21.  What was napalm?

22.  What was the Manhattan project’s purpose?

23.  What was V-J Day?

24.  What replaced the League of Nations?

25.  How many leaders of Nazi Germany were prosecuted at the Nuremburg Trials?