WW2 Final Study Guide

Question 1

how did the end of Worl Woad I contribute to the start of WWII. Hint: The seeds of WWII were sown at the peace of WWI

Answer 1

• After Germany lost WWI, the winning nations drafted a treaty to address territorial adjustment issues and reparations, ament restrictions.
• Treaty punished germany and left bitter feelings.
• Germany forced to accept the blame for the war and pay millions to Britian and France. Italy was disappointed it was denied territory by France.

Question 2

identify the dictatorships and political parties in germany that began post WWI

Answer 2

Hitler. Nazi party goal: create “master race”

Question 3

identify the dictatorships and political parties in italy that began post WWI

Answer 3

Benito Mussolini
Fascist
goal: create fascist gov., believed nation was more important than the individual.

Question 4

what led to the dictatorships in italy

Answer 4

fascist government that glorifies the state, one leader and one party, all aspects of society, one controled by the government

Question 5

what led to the rise of dictatorships in Germany

Answer 5

-Depression, unemployment, and hard times led to dramatic increase in votes for Hitler’s nazi party

Question 6

Define Appeasement. What was decided at ht emUince Conference (Muinch Pact)?

Answer 6

Appeasement: Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict.
Terms: Czechoslovakia should be given up to satisfy Hitler. European leaders believed they could appease if avoided another brutal conflict, Germ. speaking regions in Europe unified, assumed Nazis were interested in peace after acquiring territory. Britain and France realize appeasement failed when German troops broke up Czechoslovakia and Germans invaded Poland.

Question 7

what were the groups persecuted in the holocaust

Answer 7

jews, gays, gypsies, slavic people, those who owed debts

Question 8

Nuremberg laws

Answer 8

Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and Germans
Ex:- German jews deprived of rights of Germany
- led to Jews prohibited from voting
- 1/2+ of jews jobless by 1936
- banned Jews from practicing law and med.

Question 9

Final Solution

Answer 9

Plan to kill Jews since other methods proved to be inefficient. Rounded up Jews and other “undesirables” from Nazi-controlled Europe to concentration and extermination camps

Question 10

ghettos

Answer 10

—Ghettos were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population.

—They were designed to be temporary; some lasted only a few days or weeks, others for several years.

—The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to killing centers

Living conditions in the Lodz ghetto were extremely harsh. Very few people had access to running water, and there was no sewage system.

The German authorities controlled the supply of food. Anyone found trying to supplement their rations by smuggling was in danger of death. However, in order to stay alive, the inmates of the ghetto would often try to obtain extra food to support themselves and their family at any cost.

Question 11

Extermination & Concentration camps

Answer 11

Concentration: where Jews would slave over work until they died.
Extermination: Specifically for killing jews, with gas chambers, ovens

Question 12

How many were killed

Answer 12

6 mill

Question 13

Blitzkrieg

Answer 13

“lightning war” sudden violent, offensive attacks by Germans

Question 14

Allies

Answer 14

us, great britian, france

Question 15

axis powers

Answer 15

germany, italy, japan

Question 16

D-Day

Answer 16

Date for invasion of english Channel in 1944

Question 17

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 17

Took citizenship form Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans

Question 18

How did the U.S. respond to the Jap’s aggression in the Pacific

Answer 18

Island hopping

Doolittle raid

Question 19

Kamikaze

Answer 19

Suicide pioliots who’s mission was to crash into it’s target

Question 20

Island Hopping

Answer 20

MIlitary strategy employed by Allies in Pacfic war against Japan

Question 21

Doolittle Raid

Answer 21

Plan to launch B-25 bombers from aircraft carriers bw 450-650mi from Japan. Plan would bomb selected targets and fly another 1,200mi to airfiled in China

Question 22

What events led to the unconditional surrender of the Japs

Answer 22

1) Kamikaze attacks
2) Gen. Mac Arthur-Roosevelt responded to the threat by freezing all Japanese assets in the United States and reducing the amount of oil shipped to Japan. 
He also sent General MacArthur to the Philippines to build up American defenses there.
American Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, decided to take his badly outnumbered troops and retreat to the Bataan Peninsula.

3) Doolittle Raid-Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle was put in command of the mission that bombed Japan on April 18.
Doolittle’s attack on Japan made Japanese leaders change their strategy.

3) we bombed them, twice

Question 23

What was the policy of the US post WWI? What factors contributed to this policy?

Answer 23

Isolationism

Factors: WWI treaty of Versalie, the economy, some countries still owed the US money

Question 24

Cash-and-Carry

Answer 24

Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1937, which continued the ban of selling arms to countries at war and required warring countries to buy nonmilitary supplies from the United States on a “cash and carry” basis.

Question 25

Destroyers-for-Bases

Answer 25

President Roosevelt used a loophole in the Neutrality Act of 1939 and sent 50 old American destroyers to Britain in exchange for the right to build American bases on British-controlled Newfoundland, Bermuda, and Caribbean islands.

Question 26

Lend-Lease-Act

Answer 26

stated that the United States could lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the United States” ; Congress passed the act.

Question 27

What was the U.S.’s policy prior to WWI to when their interests were threatened?

Answer 27

Prior to WWI, the U.S. foreign policy went form ISOLOATIONISM to interventionism/internationalism when their interest were threatened.

Question 28

Which event challeneged the US neutrality and brought them into WWII

Answer 28

Japan attacked pearl harbor

Question 29

How were Japanese Americans treated during WWII

Answer 29

sent to internment camps, Japanese in Japan’s actions made people affiliate japanese Americans to the Japs their going to war against

Question 30

How were women treated during WWII

Answer 30

Finally allowed into the “war effort” most jobs were clerical. Eventually there were lots of nurses in the military, still no combat position. Their mere purpose was the “relieve a man to go to war”

Question 31

How did WWII impact the economy of the US

Answer 31

Economy in the US shifted to the war effort and providing war supplies like tanks, rifels, etc. 200,000 companies converted to war production

Question 32

Rationing

Answer 32

Giving out scarce items on a limited basis

Question 33

War Bonds/Victory Bonds

Answer 33

Debt securitites by gov. to finance military operations and open expenditure in the times of war

Question 34

Propaganda

Answer 34

Persuasive media to persuade the audience to the creator’s point of view

Question 35

United Nations

Answer 35

International gov. org. to operate international co-operation to live w/o war

Question 36

What was Pres. Harry Truman’s justification for dropping the atomic bomb

Answer 36

He had to end the war, make a clear statement to the Japanese, who were showing no signs of surrender

Question 37

What kept the continential US from being attacked during WWII

Answer 37

Geography, the Atlantic ocean