7-4.5-7-4.6 WWII STUDY GUIDE Match the WWII leader to the country he represented. 1. Soviet Union- STALIN 2. Italy - MUSSOLINI 5. Germany- HITLER 3. USA - ROOSEVELT & TRUMAN 4. Great Britain- CHURCHILL 6. As part of the Munich Conference, Germany was given half of what country? CZECHOSLOVAKIA 7. The policy of giving into the demands of a hostile person or group in order to keep peace is known as what? APPEASEMENT 8. Which MAJOR countries were parts of the Axis Powers? GERMANY, USSR (switched to Allies), AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, ITALY, JAPAN 9. The name of Germany’s air force was: LUFTWAFFE 10. Germany and the Soviet Union attacked and divided up what country between the two of them? POLAND 11. Which event marks the beginning of WWII? INVASION OF POLAND 12. What was the American foreign policy under Roosevelt? ISOLATIONISM 13. The Battle of Britain was an air war between whom? BRITAIN AND GERMANY 14. Hitler persecuted whom? JEWS, SLAVS, POLES (Poland) and COMMUNISTS 15. In 1941, Hitler decided to invade what former ally? USSR 16. What major event occurred on December 7, 1941? Who attacked whom? Why is this day important? PEARL HARBOR, JAPAN ATTACKED THE US, IT CAUSED THE US TO DECLARE WAR ON THE AXIS 17. What day is known as D-Day? ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDY, FRANCE 18. What two areas of the world (theaters) was WWII fought in? EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC 19. What was the US major contribution to WWII before they entered? PRODUCTION OF SUPPLIES 20. What country invaded Manchuria in 1931? JAPAN 21. Who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe? EISENHOWER 22. This day marked the end of the war in Europe. This day marked the end of the war in Japan. V-E DAY. V-J DAY 23. In the race for Berlin, who got there first? SOVIETS 24. In June 1944, the Allies opened the Western Front where? NORMANDY, FRANCE 25. The Battle of Britain involved what type of warfare? AIR 26. Who used the strategy of “island hopping” to defeat whom? US TO DEFEAT JAPAN 27. What did the German army call its war of mobility (where ground and air forces work together)? BLITZKRIEG 28. What were the two cities attacked by atomic weapons? HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI 29. Why did the US drop the atomic bomb? TO MAKE THE JAPANESE END THE WAR SOONER 30. What are some residual, lingering effects of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? BLACK RAIN, CANCER, LOSS OF HAIR, DIARRHEA, BURNS 31. Why did Hitler hate the Jews and want to rid Europe of them? What was the name of this genocide? HE WANTED TO MAKE MORE ROOM FOR THE “MASTER RACE;” HOLOCAUST 32. What was the name of the Nazi secret police who were in charge of finding Jews during the Holocaust? GESTAPO 33. What part of cities were Jews forced to live in before being taken to concentration camps? GHETTO 34. What was the name for the decision to kill all Jews using gas chambers? FINAL SOLUTION 35. Why did the Nazi Party build concentration camps in Poland? RURAL, LARGE JEWISH POPULATION, CENTRAL LOCATION 36. How many people, including Jews, Gypsies, and others, were murdered during the Holocaust? 11,000,000 37. What was used to identify Jewish people and control their whereabouts? YELLOW STARS OF DAVID 38. Where were Jews deported to? (Example: Auschwitz) CONCENTRATION CAMPS 39. What was Kristallnacht? “THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS;” JEWISH HOMES, BUSINESSES, AND SYNAGOGUES WERE DESTROYED; JEWS WERE ROUNDED UP TO BE TAKEN TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS 40. What happened at the Nuremberg Trials? NAZI LEADERS WERE TRIED/FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Label the numbered countries on the map below. 41. USSR 42. FRANCE 41 `1 `1 `1. 43. GREAT BRITAIN 44. ITALY 45. GERMANY 46. POLAND 43 3. 45 46 . . 42 . 44.
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