WWII Battles, Bombs, and Beyond Study Guide 2017
Part 1: Vocabulary Matching
Know the definitions for the following (there will not be a word box): United Nations,
Manhattan Project, blitzkrieg, kamikaze, Code Talkers, and Stalingrad. You also need to
remember where and what the Prime Meridian is for the map skills.
Note: The vocabulary words are used in context in a paragraph instead of simply being defined. There is no word box.
Part 2: Multiple Choice: You need to know the following information from Chapter 26 and
pages 845-846 from Chapter 27.1.
1. Goal and outcome of European battles:
D-Day,
Stalingrad,
North Africa/El Alamein,
Battle of the Bulge
2. Goal and outcome of Pacific battles:
Bataan Death March,
Midway,
Iwo Jima/Okinawa,
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki,
Guadalcanal
3. Kamikazes used as a weapon
4. Establishment of the United Nations
5. Invasion of Northern Africa prior to mainland Europe
6. G.I. Bill of Rights
7. Allied invasion of Okinawa and Iwo Jima
8. Manhattan Project
9. Navajo Code Talkers
10. Nuremberg trials
11. Life in the United States after WWII
12. Migration of African Americans during and after WWII
13. Soviet Union’s power after the war
14. Women in the work force after WWII (Ch. 27 Sec. 1)
15. Boom in the U.S. economy after World War II
16. Military strategy: aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean
17. Cause of suburban growth after WWII (Ch. 27 Sec. 1)
18. “Theaters” of WWII
19. Outcomes of the Yalta Conference
20. Executive Order 9066
21. Dwight Eisenhower’s victories
22. WWII’s effect on the world, including refugees
23.WWII’s effect on today’s economy/Baby Boomers (p. 860 and 958)
24. D-Day’s liberation of Paris
25. Kristallnacht and the Holocaust
26. Island hopping
27. Differences and similarities between the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference
28. Reasons for the U.S. economic boom after WWII
29. Marshall Plan
30. German defeat at Stalingrad
31. Establishment of Israel
Part 3: Sequencing Events know your dates
Section 1:
Battle of Midway
Japanese surrender
Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
Bataan Death March
Section 2:
President Roosevelt dies
Germany surrenders unconditionally
D-Day
Allied troops land in northern Africa
Battle of the Bulge
Part 4: Document-Based Question
You will analyze a historical document and answer questions using complete sentences.
Part 5: Map Skills
You will analyze the Europe 1942 map you colored to answer multiple choice questions. Some
questions are a review of basic map skills such as scale, latitude, longitude, Prime Meridian,
hemispheres, and cardinal directions.
Part 6: Quote Analysis
You will need to analyze (explain the message) and attribute the following quotes to their speaker:
a. “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
– Joseph Stalin
b. “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people
were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. … ‘Now, I am
become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
*You will need to know the speaker’s last name from memory; the message portion will be multiple choice.