World War II
World War II Study Guide
Neutrality Direct Involvement
|Key Question: How did the United States change from neutrality to direct involvement? |
|1. Isolation: The United States was focused on managing the Great Depression and there were many who did not want a repeat of the |
|events (legacy) of WWI. |
|2. Lend Lease: The United States provided economic aid to the Allies (war supplies and old naval warships) in return for the use of|
|military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean |
|3. Direct involvement: The United States joined the war after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor |
At the Beginning of the War, which Side Was Winning?
|Key Question: How was the war going initially? |
|At the beginning of the war, the Axis was winning, but the Allies persevered and won. |
War in the Pacific
|Key Question: Why did war begin in the Pacific? |
|Tensions rose between Japan and the United States due to Japanese aggression in East Asia |
|On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor without warning |
|United States declared war on Japan |
Major Events of WWII
|Key Question: What were the major events and turning points of the war? |
|Germany invaded Poland, setting off war in Europe. The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the west along with the Baltic |
|nations. |
|Germany invaded France, capturing Paris. |
|Germany bombed London. This was named the Battle of Britain. |
|Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, so the United States declared war on Japan |
|Germany declared war on the United States, so the United States declared war on Germany. |
|United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway: turning point of the war in the Pacific |
|Germany invaded the Soviet Union, but the Soviets defeated Germany at Stalingrad: turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. |
|D-Day: American and Allied troops land at Normandy, France to begin the liberation of Western Europe |
|Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The United States forced Japan to surrender, ending WWII |
Holocaust
|Key Question: What was the Holocaust? |
|Systematic attempt (laws were created) to rid Europe of all Jewish people |
|Anti-Semitism is a type of extreme prejudice and discrimination toward Jewish people. Tactics included: |
|boycotting Jewish-owned stores |
|segregation into ghettos |
|imprisonment and killing Jewish people in concentration camps and death camps |
|Aryan supremacy: the Nazi belief that most Germans were a master (superior) race |
|Liberation: Jewish people who survived were liberated by the Allied forces |
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World War II: Home Front
|Key Question: How were Americans affected by the war in the United States? |
|WWII brought an end to the Great Depression because so many workers were needed to produce war materiel |
|Rosie the Riveter: Nickname for women who took jobs in defense plants |
|Rationing and conserving resources: Americans were asked to make sacrifices because some items were scarce. |
|Racial barriers were broken down (there was a need for workers) but discrimination against African Americans continued |
|Internment camps: Locations where Japanese Americans on the west coast were forced to live because of distrust and prejudice. |
|Many Japanese Americans served honorably in the armed forces. |
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