Modern America
Cooke
Test Date: _________________________
World War II Test Review Sheet
What will the test consist of?
Matching, Primary source analysis, Fill-in-theblanks, Short Answers
What should you use to study?
I.
Class notes & handouts on the road to war,
Four Freedoms mobilizing the Home Front,
The Holocaust & America, women in the war,
battles, Japanese internment and the atomic
bomb
II.
Homework readings and questions (p. 809-814,
Rosie Remembers, Home Was a Horse Stall,
Horror of Hiroshima)
What should you study?
Look through your notes and handouts from the unit. You should re-familiarize yourself with the following
concepts and ideas:
1. How did the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I set the world up for WWII?
2. U.S. foreign policy in the 1930s – isolationism, neutrality, Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease
a. Was the U.S. truly neutral in the early years of WWII?
3. How did WWII begin? By the middle of 1940, whom had the Germans defeated and who was still
fighting them?
4. What happened at Pearl Harbor in Dec. 1941? How did the attack influence the U.S.’ neutrality?
5. How did Roosevelt and Rockwell define the “Four Freedoms?” How were they similar? How were they
different?
6. How did Americans on the home front help in the war effort?
a. Propaganda, war bonds, rationing, black market
b. All-American Girls Baseball League
c. Rosie the Riveter and changes in family life, gender roles and responsibilities
d. Double V campaign
7. Japanese-American internment
a. What were the arguments given for their treatment? Was this constitutional and why?
b. What was life like in the internment camps?
8. What were the key battles on the European and Pacific fronts? How did the strategy differ on the
European and Pacific fronts?
9. Why did the U.S. develop the atomic bomb? What were the arguments for and against dropping the
atomic bomb on Japan? What was the impact on the cities and people living there?
In addition to the questions above, you should study all of the following terms as well as any other concepts or
events you may have in your notes.
Isolationism
Iwo Jima
Braceros
Rosie the Riveter
Zoot Suit Riots
Office of War Information
Yalta Conference
Office of Price Administration
Potsdam Conference
Adolf Hitler – De Fuhrer
All-American Girls’
Professional Baseball League
Island-hopping
Benito Mussolini
Executive Order 9066
Fascism
War Relocation Authority
Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry
Lend-Lease program
Appeasement
Tripartite Pact
Korematsu v. United States
Pearl Harbor
“Double V” Campaign
D-Day
A. Philip Randolph
Midway
Executive Order 8802
Albert Einstein
Manhattan Project
Interim Committee
Hiroshima / Nagasaki
Hibakusha