WORLD WAR II – TEST REVIEW
Review the following terms from your notes and textbook.
Nazis Appeasement Final Solution Sudentenland
Fascism Mein Kampf Pearl Harbor Luftwaffe
Communism Munich Agreement Nazi-Soviet Pact Ghetto
Zombies Anti-Semitism Yellow Star of David Fat Man
Auschwitz Battle of Hong Kong Rome-Berlin Axis Ortona
Battle of Britain Lebensraum Blitzkrieg VE Day
RAF/ RCAF Anschluss Manhattan Project Enola Gay
Kristallnacht Operation Barbarossa Holocaust Little Boy
D-Day Allies/ Axis Powers Plebiscite Total War
Panzers VJ Day Wehrmacht Internment
Pacifists Conscription Rationing Inflation
Hitler Yalta Conference Mussolini Black Shirts
Brown Shirts Chamberlain Truman Churchill
Dunkirk Potsdam Conference Oppenheimer Wannsee
ATA Commissoism War Measures Act “SS”
Questions
1. What were the conditions like in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s
that helped Hitler come to power?
2. Outline Hitler’s steps to war. (In other words, what he “did”)
3. Explain the Holocaust. What was the Final Solution? How were Jews treated?
4. Discuss the following battles: Dieppe, Battle of Britain, Battle of Hong Kong.
Be sure to include reasons for the battle, events, and results.
5. Discuss the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Was it a success or failure?
6. How did fighting come to an end in Japan? Be sure to include the development
of the atom bomb and its role.
7. What reasons did the government have for the internment of Japanese
Canadians? How were the Japanese in Canada treated?
8. Describe the ways that Canadian women contributed to the war effort.
9. Why was there a fight over conscription in Canada? How did Mackenzie King handle
the issue?