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American History I
World War II Revision
Identify:
Winston Churchill___________________________________________________________________
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Adolf Hitler________________________________________________________________________
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Joseph Stalin_______________________________________________________________________
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Benito Mussolini_____________________________________________________________________
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Francisco Franco____________________________________________________________________
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Mein Kampf________________________________________________________________________
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Lend-Lease Act______________________________________________________________________
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Blitzkrieg___________________________________________________________________________
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Appeasement_______________________________________________________________________
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Dunkirk____________________________________________________________________________
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Fascism____________________________________________________________________________
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Axis Powers_________________________________________________________________________
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Totalitarian_________________________________________________________________________
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Resistance_________________________________________________________________________
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Allies_____________________________________________________________________________
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Collaboration_______________________________________________________________________
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GI________________________________________________________________________________
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Carpet bombing_____________________________________________________________________
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Kamikaze__________________________________________________________________________
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D-Day_____________________________________________________________________________
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Island hopping______________________________________________________________________
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Rosie the Riveter_____________________________________________________________________
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Internment camps___________________________________________________________________
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Victory gardens_____________________________________________________________________
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Wildcat strikes______________________________________________________________________
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Main Ideas:
1. What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930’s?_____________________
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2. What prompted the United States to enter the war in 1941?_____________________________
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3. The Axis Powers were named for the “axis” between which two European capitals?__________
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4. What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany, and to the
rise of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union?___________________________________________
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5. Why did two Chinese leaders, Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong, unite?________________________
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6. What did the Ford Motor Company make during World War II?___________________________
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7. What was the main war strategy that Roosevelt and Churchill first agreed on?_______________
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8. What was the complicated Allied invasion to take Europe back from the Axis Powers called?___
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9. After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis of the Atlantic Charter?_______
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10. What was the “final solution to the Jewish question,” announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee
Conference?___________________________________________________________________
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11. What important idea came out of the Nuremberg Trials?________________________________
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12. In what battle did the Allies sink all four Japanese carriers and 250 planes?_________________
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13. By using island hopping, what were the Allies able to attack earlier than expected?___________
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14. What was the goal of the Manhattan Project?_________________________________________
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15. Why did Japan surrender?________________________________________________________
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16. What role did African Americans play in World War II?__________________________________
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17. What are “code talkers”?_________________________________________________________
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18. In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal fought?_
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19. What finally brought an end to World War II?_________________________________________
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20. What and when is V-E Day?_______________________________________________________
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