7-4.5-7-4.6 WWII STUDY GUIDE Match the WWII leader to the

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
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41. USSR
42. FRANCE
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44. ITALY
45. GERMANY
46. POLAND
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