us history

Question 1

1111Why did USSR, Germany, Italy and Japan tolatarism regime emerge in the 1930s

Answer 1

USSR- Joseph Stalin, wanted a industrial giant, employed secret police, propaganda posters, suppresses all oppositions
Italy - Benito Mussolini, wanted to make Italy a world power, facism, secret police
Germany- Adolf Hitler, wanted to return Germany to a former glory, facism, dictatorship
Japan - Emperor Hirohito, Wanted to build empire quickly and aggressively

Question 2

Why did U.S differ from Germany, Italy and Japan?

Answer 2

Didnt go into a tolatrsim state of government because they were at loss of faith, had no dictator and no democracy from the Great Depression.

Question 3

Explain how the war affected African Americans civil rights

Answer 3

• it caused race riots because African Americans were getting jobs in the war and federal gov jobs
• DOUBLE V CAMPAIGN, helped the civil rights for African Americans with racial equality

Question 4

Explain the significance of soot suit riots

Answer 4

These riots occurred because the Latinx and Americans wore these suits and people thought that they were unpatriotic for the war

Question 5

ID and describe the cause of American isolationism in the 1930s

Answer 5

• Didnt want other countries badness and problems in there U.S
• German Americans were afraid of Hitler and knew how bad WW1 was so they wanted isolationism

Question 6

Describe the arguments between isolationists and intervationists

Answer 6

Isolationists - Didnt want bad things happened to their country, also didnt want the immigration restrictions gone
Interventionists - wanted to help other countries so that stye would;d help them in return

Question 7

ID and describe the ways the U.S became more involved with the Allies prior to entering the war

Answer 7

-provided military supplies to Britain
-helped Britain
- Helping the countries
- Lend Lease Act, enables countries to receive American military aid without paying immediately

Question 8

ID the significance of Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

U.S declares war on Japan and wwII was now a true world war, Hitler honored a pact with Japan and declared war on U.S

Question 9

Explain the significance of Germany Invading Poland

Answer 9

Cause of ww2

Question 10

Identify and describe the causes and effects of the Battle of Britain.

Answer 10

cause - the air campaign by Germany on Britain
Effect - Britain Won

Question 11

Describe how the Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war in the Pacific

Answer 11

It was a turning point because not that the U.S has won they can weaken the Japanese threat by their island hopping

Question 12

Describe how the Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the war in Europe.

Answer 12

IT was a turning point because it stopped Germany from spreading the Nazism into Europe

Question 13

Explain the significance of the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the defeat of Japan.

Answer 13

Iwo Jima - Became a strategic area for a attack on Japan
Okinawa - Allowed the U.S to create a blockade of Japan and commence airstrikes on Japan

Question 14

Explain the significance of the Normandy Invasion

Answer 14

The significance was despite intense German opposition and heavy American casualties, the landings succeeded and the libration of Western Europe from hitler began

Question 15

Explain how the Battle of the Bulge accelerates the end of the war in Europe.

Answer 15

It allowed the advance to Germany

Question 16

Describe the controversy surrounding Truman’s decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 16

Should have sent the bomb -
- Japan did attack Pearl Harbor
-Land invasion would’ve been costly in $ and lives
- Japan tourtured POWS
Should not have sent the bomb
- over 100,000 Japanese dead
- Launched the Nuclear age
- untested weapon

Question 17

Identify and describe the ways in which the Nazis worked to de-humanize Jews

Answer 17

• forced into concentration camps
• shaved
• tested on
• yellow stars
• separated

Question 18

Explain the goals of Hitler’s final solution and the nature of the Nazi death camps

Answer 18

Wanted to exterminate all the jews, all undesirables, expanded the death camps,

Question 19

Explain how the United States responded to the Holocaust

Answer 19

was focused on defeating Germany, worked to help fleeing jewish people, Allies free camps,