Unit+05+Review+-+WW+II

Questions for World War II AP World History [B]

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Franklin Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Winston Churchill- British prime minister during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults...Ashley K. Adolph Hitler- Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the center of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and he Holocaust. Hitlers aim was to establish a New order of absolute Nazi Germany hegemony in continental Europe. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe...Ashley K. Joseph Stalin- Successor to Lenin as head of the USSR; strongly nationalist view of Communism; represented anti-Wetern strain of Russian tradition; crushed opposition to his rule; established series of five-year plans to replace New Economic Policy; fostered agricultural collectivization; led USSR through World War II; furthered cold war with Western Europe and the United States; died in 1953...Ashley K. Benito Mussolini- Italian Fascist leader after World War I; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalists movement...Ashley K. Charles DeGaulle Dwight D. Eisenhower Chiang Kai-Shek Hideki Tojo- Japanese general; put down attempted military coup in 1936; increasingly interfeared with civilian cabinets to block appointment of liberal bureaucrats; helped create increasingly militaristic series of prime miniters after 1936...Ashley K. Nikita Krushchev- Stalin's successor as head of USSR; attacked Stalinism in 1956 for concentration of power and arbitrary dictatorship; failure of Siberian development program and antagonism of Stalinists led to downfall...Ashley K. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto Herman Gohring Emperor Hirohito Gen. Douglas MacArthur- American commander in Pacific campaign of World War II; headed American occupation government of Japan after the war; later commanded international forces during Korean War...Ashley K. Col. Paul Tibbets Sgt. Audie Murphy Gen. Leslie Groves Enrico Fermi Robert Oppenheimer Trinity Test Gen. Omar Bradley Gen. George Patton Gen. Curtis Lemay Gen. Irwin Rommel Heinrich Himmler Field Marshal Bernhard Montgomery Adm. Chester Nimitz USS //Arizona// USS //Oklahoma// USS //Indianapolis// The //Enola Gay// V-1 Buzz Bomb V-2 Rocket Werhner von Braun Operation Overlord- Operation Overload was the code name for the Battle of Normandy. The operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings. A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June; more than three million allied troops were in France by the end of August...Ashley K. Operation Barbarossa Operation Paperclip


 * __ Review Questions: __**
 * 1) How did the Great Depression affect the Western Democracies?
 * 2) What was the significance of the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922?
 * 3) What was the Bierhall Putsch?
 * 4) Hitler wrote a book while in prison called Mein Kampf? Why did he write it, and what was it about?
 * 5) What was the importance of //Kristallnacht//?
 * 6) What were the important developments regarding the Holocaust?
 * 7) What was the significance of: Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Buchenwald?
 * 8) The United States is generally perceived to have taken a more isolationist stance in the time period between the world wars. How true is that statement and why?
 * 9) Why was Japan’s invasion of Manchuria/China/Indo-China significant?
 * 10) What was the Rape of Nanjing?
 * 11) What is MAGIC? ULTRA? How do they compare?
 * 12) What was the importance of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s? What did each one do?
 * 13) What was Plan Orange?
 * 14) What was Lend-Lease, and the Destroyer Deal?
 * 15) Who were the significant military commanders during the Second World War for each of the following nations: The United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, China, and the Soviet Union?
 * 16) What was the Atlantic Charter, and what is its significance?
 * 17) What was the significance of the rearming of the Rhineland? The Anschluss? The Sudetenland?
 * 18) What is the Battle of Britain, and when does it occur?
 * 19) Who were the Partisans that fought on the Eastern Front?
 * 20) Where did Japan launch an attack on Dec. 7, 1941?
 * 21) What was the Doolittle Raid, and why does it represent a departure in military tactics?
 * 22) What was the importance of Corregidor and the Bataan Death March?
 * 23) What was the Strategy of Island Hopping?
 * 24) What were the Yalta, Teheran, and Potsdam Conferences? Who was there, and what decisions were arrived at?
 * 25) What were the important battles of the Pacific Campaign, and how did the results affect the course of the war?
 * 26) What was the significance of the Battle of Stalingrad/Leningrad/Moscow in WW II?
 * 27) What were the significant battles fought on the Western Front in World War II?
 * 28) Why did the United States and Great Britain delay opening a second front in France?
 * 29) What was the process that led the United States to develop the atomic bomb?
 * 30) Describe the bombing practices of the United States during the Second World War? How effective was it?
 * 31) Who or what were Fat Man and Little Boy?
 * 32) What was the significance of the USS //Indianapolis//?
 * 33) What was the Manhattan Project?
 * 34) What was the Nurnburg War Crimes trial? Who were the defendants, and what became of them?
 * 35) What was the result of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial? Who were the defendants and what became of them?
 * 36) Were any allied officials tried for war crimes? What could they have been charged with had there been the necessity of a trial?