WWII Exam Review Sheet



WWII Exam Review Sheet

Know your Chapter 26 vocabulary terms ALONG with the leaders of Allied & Axis countries (especially if any of them changed during the war…), and you should be familiar with the following questions and statements: 

ORIGINS OF THE WAR

How did dictators come to power in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan in the 1930?

What events led to the beginning of World War II in Europe?

What was America's foreign policy in the 1930s? Why did they have this policy? How did it gradually change as the war developed in Europe?

Why were the relations between United States and Japan strained in the 1930s?

What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? Why did it happen? Was it a success? What was the impact of the event?

THE HOME FRONT

How did the U.S. prepare for war even though they were not officially participating?

What role did men, women, and children play on the home front? How were the lives of Americans affected by the war?

How did the government gain more control of society during the war? What government organizations were created, and what did they do?

What happened to Japanese Americans during the war? Why? Should it have happened? What did the Supreme Court say?

Was there other discrimination on the home front during the war? 

THE US TROOPS

What was the makeup of the America fighting forces? What about women, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans?

THE WAR IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC

What were the plans of the Allies once the U.S. entered the war?

You should be able to describe the major events and individuals of the war as well as describe the general flow of the war in Europe and the Pacific.

You should have a solid grasp of the geography of the war, including the extent of the control of the Japanese in the Pacific and Axis in Europe.

What is the background of the atomic bomb? What are some of the pros and cons of dropping the bomb?

What’s up with the Yalta Conference? How did the decisions made at that conference set up the political landscape in Europe for decades to come.

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