US History 2                                                             Name _______________________

Unit 4:  World War 2                                               Hour  _____

 

Picture Questions:  Use the pictures, graphs, charts, maps and red boxes on the pages indicated to locate the following information.

 

722-3  How long after Hitler became chancellor of Germany did WW2 start? _____

            What are the women doing in the picture? _____ What year is it? _____

            What is the title of the sheet music? _____ What year is it? _____

724-5  What treaty was signed at the Washington Conference? _________________

            What countries were represented? ________________________________

            Why did the US pursue an isolationist policy after WW1? ________________

            _______________________________________________________

726-7  Why did Carrie Chapman Catt lobby Congress? _______________________

            In what year did the war between China and Japan begin? _______________

            Why was the woman using money to start a fire? ______________________

            Why did the Europeans resent America in the years after the war? __________

            _______________________________________________________

            What were the Germans angry about? _____________________________

732-3  What was Mussolini known as by his followers? _______________________

734-5  What countries saw the rise to power of military dictators in the 1920s & 1930s?

            _______________________________________________________

            What did European leaders try to do to avoid going to war? _______________

            What percentage of Americans opposed direct military involvement of US forces

            in the WW2? _____ What percentage thought we should fight with the Allies

            only if they were losing? _____ What did the majority of Americans think the US

            should do? ________________________________________________

736-7  What was the spark the started WW2? _____________________________

            What 4 European countries were neutral? __________________________

            When did the Germans recover the Saar? _____

            Which 2 countries signed the nonaggression pact? _____________________

            What are the members of the French Resistance doing? _________________

            _______________________________________________________

            What step did the US take toward involvement in the war? _______________

            _______________________________________________________

738-9  When did the Japanese invade Manchuria? __________________________

742-3  How long after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor did they surrender? _____

744-5  What two problems did the US face when they entered the war? ____________

            _______________________________________________________

            What is the headline on the newspaper? ____________________________

746-7  Thousands of American and Filipino soldiers died on the march to this Japanese

             prison camp. __________________

            When was the Battle of Guadalcanal? _____

            When was the Battle of Iwo Jima? _____

            In which three battles did the Allies stop the Japanese offensive? ___________

            _______________________________________________________

            Who was the commander of the German Afrika Korps? __________________

748-9  What marked the turning point in the war in the east? __________________

            When did the Allies land at Normandy? _____

            How long did the Soviet siege at Stalingrad last? _____

            How many Soviet women received military honors? _____

            Which 2 battles were setbacks for the Axis powers? ____________________

750-1  Cooperation among the Allies took the following forms __________________

            _______________________________________________________

            Which 3 leaders are shown and which conference are they attending? ________

            _______________________________________________________

            What happened to factories in the US after the bombing at Pearl Harbor?

            _______________________________________________________

752-3  About how much money did the US spend on national defense in 1945? ______

            In what three ways did the US prepare itself for war? ___________________

            _______________________________________________________

            What percentage of the US budget went toward defense in 1945? _____

            How did the government try to conserve resources? ____________________

754-5  Why are the Japanese Americans waiting with their belongings? ___________

            _______________________________________________________

            How many Japanese Americans were interned during WW2? _____

            Which two states had the largest Japanese American population in 1940?

            _____________________________________

            Why were Japanese Americans interned during WW2? __________________

            _______________________________________________________

756-7  Where is the training center for African American pilots? ________________

            T/F African Americans, Mexican Americans and women had increased job

            opportunities during WW2.

758-9  Which aircraft plant was the first to employ a large number of women?

            _____________________

            When was Paris liberated? _____

            What is the goal of the US Army chief of staff? ________________________

            _________________________________

760-1  What gave the Allies increased control over the Mediterranean?             _______________________________________________________

            When did the Allied invasion of France begin? _____

            What happened at Dresden? ____________________________________

762-3  When did Germany surrender? _____

            What are the Navajo Code Talkers doing? ___________________________

764-5  What 2 things brought the Allies within bombing distance of Japan’s cities?

            _______________________________________________________

            What made it difficult for the Marines to keep their footing while delivering

            supplies to Iwo Jima? ________________________________________

            The bombing of these two cities, _________________________________

            led to the Japanese surrender on ________________________________.

766-7  Which country had the highest overall casualty rate? ___________________

            How many casualties did the US have? _____ Germans? _____

768-9  How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust? ________________________

            What were two of the major consequences of WW2 ____________________

            _______________________________________________________

            Which three leaders met at Yalta? ________________________________

            What were they discussing? ____________________________________