American History WWII Test 1

Terms/Items to know
People
Places/Events
Allies Winston Churchill Sudetenland
Appeasement Franklin Roosevelt Czechoslovakia
Axis Neville Chamberlain Manchuria
Blitzkrieg Hideki Tojo Ethiopia
Totalitarian Adolf Hitler Poland
Rationing Joseph Stalin Spain
Lend-Lease Act Benito Mussolini Pearl Harbor*
Neutrality Acts Kimmel Rape of Nanking
USS Arizona Yamamoto Doolittle Raid
USS Panay Short Operation Barbarossa
Mein Kampf Hirohito Bataan Death March


Dates
-- German invasion of Poland
--Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Map section- be able to label countries involved in the war on a map

Possible Short Answer Questions:
--Why did the depth of Pearl Harbor give the US a false feeling of security? What did Japan do to their torpedoes to overcome the obstacle?
--What happened to the USS Arizona and its crew because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
--What was fighting like in Stalingrad? What happened there that was important to the outcome of WWII?

American History WWII Test 2

Items/Terms People
Places/Battles/Events
Enola Gay Eisenhower Hiroshima Battle of the Bulge
Mitsubishi Zero Nimitz Guadalcanal June 6, 1944 D-day
Genocide Truman Nagasaki Battle of Midway*
Kamikazes Patton Singapore Leningrad
Island Hopping MacArthur Saipan Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battleship Yorktown Rommel Yalta Tokyo Fire Bombs
Potsdam Declaration Other Auschwitz Manhattan Project
USS Missouri Results of War Philippines Okinawa
War Bonds Stereotypes of enemies Britain Iwo Jima
POWs US war production North Africa Holocaust

Groups during the war
Women - pilots, entering workforce, Rosie the Riveter, importance to US war production, part in the war (WAVES, WACs)
Farmers - financial status, food production
African Americans -part in the war, segregated units, life on home front
Japanese Americans -soldiers, Nisei, Internment Camps
Native Americans - Navajo soldiers(code talkers)

Chronology - you will have to put major events of the war in order

You will need to know about the alternatives to the atomic bomb and why they were not used.

- Mainland invasion (starting with the island of Kyushu, one of Japan's four major home islands)
-Demonstration of the atomic bomb
-Naval blockade

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