World War II Review Sheet



World War II Review Sheet

Complete fully for the following class. There will be a map portion on your test. Be prepared!

Between the Wars:

1. Democracies failing – the Weimar Republic in Germany.

2. Totalitarian Governments

- Fascism

- Nazism

- Communism

3. Axis and Allied Nations

Failures of World War I

1. League of Nations

2. Treaty of Versailles and Hitler’s response

3. US Isolationism

4. Japanese expansion of Power: Korea and Manchuria

Leaders During the War:

1. Roosevelt

2. Truman

3. Tojo

4. Hirohito

5. Hitler

6. Mussolini

7. Chamberlain

8. Churchill

European theatre:

1. Munich Pact – Who was involved? Outcome?

2. Nonaggression Pact – Significance?

3. Blitzkrieg

4. Major Battles in Europe

5. Victory in Europe Day

6. The Holocaust

7. The United Nations

8. The Nuremberg Trials

Pacific:

1. Island hopping

2. Major Battles in the Pacific

3. Decision to drop the atomic bomb. Why, where, is it justified?

US:

1. Pearl Harbor Attack and the US response

2. Japanese Internment

3. Atlantic Charter

4. US home front and policies: rations, medical improvements, price controls, war bonds, inflation, union workers, etc.

5. Manhattan Project

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