Today’s Class (5/12/15) Agenda: World War II Review

World War II Review

Question 1 What was Hitler confident that the Western nations would not enforce?

Question 2 At the Munich Conference Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said what famous words to describe their achievement?

Question 3 At the beginning of 1943, the Allies agreed to seek from the Axis Powers nothing short of… the return of Poland. Hitler’s head on a plate. an apology in writing. unconditional surrender.

Question 4 The _______________________ was the name for the alliance between Mussolini & Hitler.

Question 5 What was Hitler’s primary goal by bombing civilian targets in the Battle of Britain?

Question 6 Why did U.S. President Harry Truman authorize the use of atomic weapons on Japan?

Question 7 What percentage of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

Question 8 ________________ is the policy of satisfying the reasonable demands of unsatisfied powers in hopes of achieving peace in Europe.

Question 9 Japanese leaders miscalculated American intent and thought that the United States would accept… Japanese rule of California. Japanese domination of the Pacific. German control of Britain. Japanese control of Poland.

Question 10 What was Japan forced to decide if they needed in the build up to World War II?

Question 11 The slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis became known as…

Question 12 What was the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact?

Question 13 Which country was referred to as the “soft underbelly” of Europe by Winston Churchill?

Question 14 How were African American soldiers in the U.S. military organized during World War II?

Question 15 What area in northwestern Czechoslovakia was Hitler granted at the Munich Conference?

Question 16 Name the three major Axis Powers.

Question 17 What strategy did Hitler employ in Germany’s invasion of Poland?

Question 18 What significant action did Hitler take in September 1939?

Question 19 The “Mukden incident,” which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria, was… an attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese. the accidental sinking of the Mongolian merchant ship Mukden by a Chinese warship. the murder of a Japanese soldier in Mukden. a labor strike by Chinese workers in a Japanese factory in Mukden.

Question 20 What battle marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Question 21 Hitler believed that the Western nations would not use _________________ to enforce the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 22 Which battle were German troops defeated by General Winter and the Soviets, forcing the Germans to retreat?

Question 23 Name the four major Allied Powers.

Question 24 The Anti-Comintern Pact was an alliance between which two nations?

Question 25 _______________________ is the prohibition of weapons or fortifications in a particular area.

Question 26 What action did the Japanese take on December 7, 1941?

Question 27 The series of fortifications along the France-German border was known as...

Question 28 The ___________________ was the name of the German air force.

Question 29 _______________________ was the site of the Allies’ D-Day invasion.

Question 30 Why did Japan choose Pearl Harbor as its target for its surprise attack?

Question 31 What were the three areas that American and British women contributed to the war effort?