Studyguide for WWII Test

Start early in you preparation for this test. The test will cover material in Chpt. 16 in your textbook as well as your notes, homework readings, and videos. I posted the powerpoint to help you study. Remember, a studyguide should help you focus on some key terms, however, it is not to be used as the SOLE source to study from. It should also not be considered the only material that may be used for the test. Good luck!

Start of WWII

Blitzkrieg

Spain

Poland

appeasement

Anchluss

Liebensraum

Munich Conference

Sudetenland

Why did the British and French adopt the policy of appeasement?

What were the causes of WWII?

When and where did WII start in Europe?

Why did the U.S. enter WWII?

What was U.S. foreign policy leading up to WWII 1939-1941?

Lend-Lease

Destroyer-Base Deal

Nazi-Soviet Pact?

Leaders of WWII

Chamberlain

Daladier

Churchill

Stalin

Mussolini

Hitler

Hirohito

FDR

Truman

De Gaulle

European Conflict

Phony War

Fall of France

Maginot Line

Dunkirk

Vichy France vs. Free France vs. occupied France

Operation Sea Lion

Battle of Britain

The Blitz

Luftwaffe

RAF

What helped the British win the battle?

Winston Churchill

Spitfire

Total War

Ultra

Operation Barbarossa

Battle of Leningrad

Why was it important to take defend?

Aspects of the battle?

Battle of Stalingrad

Why was it important to take/defend?

Aspects of the battle?

Battle for Moscow

Scorched earth policy

General Winter

“Not one step back”

Operation Husky

Operation Avalanche

Salerno

Anzio

Monte Cassino

Gustav Line

“Soft Underbelly”

Allied Bombings

Dresden

D-Day

Dieppe

Operation Fortitude

Fighting in the hedgerows

Dwight D. Eisenhower

George Patton

Aspects:

Operation Dragoon

Battle of Arnhem Operation Market Garden

Battle of the Bulge

Bastogne

Crossing the Rhine

Fall of Berlin

Hitler’s Death

VE- Day

Holocaust

Holocaust

Zionism

Anti-Semitism

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Dreyfus Affair

Enabling Act

Nuremburg Laws

Kristallnacht

Zyclon-B

Final Solution

Auschwitz

Madagascar Plan

S.S. St. Louis

Polish Ghettos (Warsaw, Lodz)

Eizengruppen

Reinhard Heydrich

Wannsee conference

Concentration Camp and Extermination Camp

Dr. Joseph Mengele

How many people were killed in the Holocaust?

Genocide

UN Convention on the Prevention of Genocide

Rwanda Genocide (Tutsi / Hutu)

North Africa

Gen. Erwin Rommel

Nickname?

Battle of El Alamein

Gen. Bernard Montgomery

Operation Torch (significance?)

Pacific Theater

Co-Prosperity Sphere

Who did Japan attack in 1937?

Isoroku Yamamoto

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Date? Location?

Who were some of the leaders blamed for not being prepared for the attack and why?

In the early part of 1942 what was happening in the war in the Pacific?

Doolittle’s Raid

Battle of Coral Sea

Chester Nimitz

Battle of Midway

Island Hopping

Operation Cartwheel

What happened at Iwo Jima and why was it important?

Mount Sarabachi

Why was the capture of Okinawa important?

Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill

Bataan Death March

Code of Bushido

Ketsugo

Kamikaze

Tokyo Firebombings

B-29

Gen. MacArthur

“I shall return”

Potsdam Conference

Manhattan Project

Trinity

Hiroshima

Enola Gay

Nagasaki

Little Boy

Fat Man

Why did Truman drop the bomb?

VJ- Day

Unit 731

Results from WWII?

Killed:

Social:

Political:

Economic:

Military:

**PLEASE NOTE- there may be a map of the battles/turning points/operations*****