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Boyer - WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Beginning with Hitler's invasion of Poland, what are the dates for WWII? | 1939-1945 |
| List at least 5 important things about Joseph Stalin | communist; leader of Soviet Union (USSR/Russia); dictator who killed millions of his own people; used many of the same tactics as Hitler & Mussolini to obtain & hold onto power; industrialized his country; forced peasant farmers off their land |
| List at least 5 important things about Adolf Hitler | fascist; leader of Germany; dictator who rose to power in the 1930s; believed in "Aryan race"; Jews were the enemy (reason lost WWI, etc.); leader of the Nazi party |
| List at least 3 important things about Benito Mussolini | fascist; leader of Italy; like Hitler he hated communism; came to power by getting rid of his rivals, controlling the press, & banning any other political parties |
| When and why did the U.S. enter WWII? | Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor attack when Japanese surprise attack our U.S. naval base |
| What is anti-semitism? | centuries old prejudice toward Jewish people; reason for the Holocaust under Hitler |
| In 1941, who were the major Allied Powers? | England, US, Soviet Union (remember Hitler invaded USSR in 1941) |
| In 1939, who were the major Axis Powers? | Japan, Italy, Germany, & the Soviet Union |
| What 2 specific things were the Japanese militarists doing in the 1930s? | expanding & conquering places like China for more resources (farmland, minerals, oil, rubber) & waging a brutal fight against the people they were conquering (raping civilians, etc.) |
| List at least 3 important things about the Manhattan Project. | secret program; billions of $ were spent to create an atomic bomb; had a limited # of atomic bombs; it was successful |
| List at least 5 important things about the atomic bombings on Japan. | occurred August 1945; forced surrender of the Japanese; over 200,000 people were killed & thousands more died later; Japanese govt. did not help the survivors for years; America helped the survivors; US is only country to ever use nuclear weapons in war |
| What are the results of WWII? | Allies won the war; Cold War heats up between US & Soviet Union after the war; massive death - over 50 million people; nuclear weapons increase; democracy is restored |
| What are 3 important facts about the Holocaust? | over 6 million Jewish people were killed; Jews from all over conquered Europe were forced into concentration & death camps; American soldiers liberated camps in Germany at the end of the war while Russian soldiers did this in Poland |
| What were the major causes of WWII? | Great Depression of the 1930s - people financially struggling, rise of dictators, failure of the WWI Treaty of Versailles (to demilitarize Germany & the League of Nations' attempt to keep peace), militarism |
| Who was the leader of the US during most of WWII? | President Franklin Roosevelt |
| After President Roosevelt died, who became president? Hint: he ultimately made the decision to drop the atomic bombs | Harry Truman |
| What are 3 arguments in support of the decision to drop the atomic bomb? | save American & Japanese lives; to intimidate the Soviets under Stalin (show them the power of this new weapon); Japanese would not surrender otherwise |
| What was the "best kept secret of WWII"? | women factory workers |
| What are 3 important ways Americans at home were affected during the war? | loss of family members (like Mrs. Ryan), rationing, women & African-Americans in the work force more |
| When & what was D-Day? | June 6, 1944; largest invasion in history; Allied troops invade France to push Germans out & back to Germany; ultimately succesful - leads to Germany's defeat in April/May 1945 |
| Who surrendered first, the Japanese or the Germans? | Germans |
| True/False Hitler conquered most of Europe by the summer of 1940. | True |
| True/False Before D-Day, Americans fought in North Africe and Italy. | True |
| What was President Franklin Roosevelt's term for what he hoped America would produce in terms of weapons during the war? He hoped this production would defeat the totalitarian leaders. | "arsenal of democracy" |
| What is a totalitarian leader? | one who has exerts total control over his country's people |
| What does the American jeep symbolize? | American ingenuity |
| True/False Americans lost millions of soldiers in the war. | False |
| True/False In the early phase of World War II (before 1942)the Axis powers struggled mightily against the heavily armed Western powers. | False |
| True/False The best term to describe American foreign policy in the period “Between the Wars” (meaning between World War I and World War II) is interventionist (to get involved). | False |
| True/False World War I began in Europe in 1914. | True |
| True/False Germany won World War One, the "Great War". | False |
| True/False During the lead up to WWII, England did NOT abandon democracy. | True |
| True/False The United Nations was created at the end of WWI. | False |
| What country did Hitler invade to officially begin WWII? | Poland |
| True/False The main reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was to capture a military base close enough to the western United States. This base would be used to launch a West Coast invasion of the United States. | False |
| WWII the Allied strategy, agreed upon by the U.S. and Great Britain, was to: | concentrate on defeating Germany first before turning full force on Japan |
| In waging war against Japan the U.S. relied mainly on the strategy of: | “island hopping” from the South Pacific to within striking distance of the main islands of Japa |
| True/False Women served as combat soldiers in WWII. | False |
| True/False As as result of WWII the depression ended & the American economy boomed under the weight of government orders for war material. | True |
| True/False African-American soldiers were still forced to fight in segregated units during WWII. | True |
| Which Allied country suffered the most killed (both soldiers and civilians)during the Second World War? | Soviet Union |
| Term for the "night of broken glass,” a name given to the night of November 9, 1938, when gangs of Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany: | Kristallnacht |
| Almost all of the Nazi extermination camps (death camps) were located in what country? | Poland |
| The Cold War was a state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II and that lasted until 1991. | Cold War |
| Term for the political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator such as Mussolini and Hitler: | fascism |
| The Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway were significant because: | they were American victories that helped to stop the tide of Japanese advances in the Pacific |
| True/False American track star Jesse Owens won several medals at the 1936 Olympics in German. | True |
| True/False Americans were thrilled to watch on television the rematch between American boxer Joe Louis & German Max Schmelling. Joe won! | False |
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