CHAPTER 17 REVIEW WWII

TERMS AND PEOPLE FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN SQUADRON TUSKEGEE AIRMEN LEADER OF ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE; LATER BECAME PRESIDENT; ENERGETIC AMERICAN OFFICER DWIGHT EISENHOWER MADE OF POWERFUL NATIONS THAT ENCOURAGED COOPERATION BETWEEN GREAT NATIONS; ESTABLISHED AFTER WWII UNITED NATIONS (UN) MOST DECORATED MILITARY UNIT IN U.S. HISTORY; ALL-NISEI UNIT (JAPANESE-AMERICAN) 442 ND REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM “BIG THREE” MEETING TO DISCUSS POSTWAR PLANS; THEY MET BEFORE WAR WAS OFFICIALLY OVER YALTA CONFERENCE

TERMS AND PEOPLE U.S. ORGANIZATION DESIGNED TO AID EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS WAR REFUGEE BOARD LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN GOODS THAT CIVILIANS BUY; (MEAT, BUTTER, RUBBER, GASOLINE) RATIONING STRATEGY USED FOR CAPTURING STRATEGIC PACIFIC LOCATIONS ISLAND HOPPING WILLFUL DESTRUCTION OF A RACIAL, POLITICAL OR CULTURAL GROUP GENOCIDE AFRICAN AMERICAN WHO CAMPAIGNED AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH

KEY CONCEPTS WHY DID THE ALLIES ADOPT THE “EUROPE FIRST” STRATEGY? GERMANY WAS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS LONG-TERM THREAT WHY DID STALIN WANT TO OPEN A SECOND FRONT IN FRANCE? HE WANTED TO DIVIDE GERMANY’S ARMY FOR WHAT IS REINHARD HEYDRICH KNOWN AT THE 1942 WANNSEE CONFERENCE? HE WAS A GERMAN NAZI WHO OUTLINED A PLAN TO KILL 11,000,000 JEWS WHAT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S MAIN REASON FOR USING THE ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN? HE WAS SAVING AMERICAN LIVES IN JAPAN WHY DID JAPANESE AMERICANS FACE MORE DISCRIMINATION THAN ITALIAN AMERICANS OR GERMAN AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II? THEY WERE ISOLATED FROM OTHER AMERICANS; LACKED POLITICAL CLOUT

KEY CONCEPTS WHAT WERE THE JAPANESE GOALS IN THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY? TO FORCE US BACK TO CALIFORNIA SO THEY COULD CONTROL ALL OF THE PACIFIC INCLUDING HAWAII WHERE DID THE WORST INCIDENT OF RACIAL VIOLENCE OCCUR AS A RESULT OF WARTIME MIGRATION? DETROIT, MICHIGAN WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE DID NAZIS BELIEVE WHERE THE MOST SUPERIOR? ARYAN WHAT HAPPENED TO COLONIALISM AFTER WWII? IT LOST POPULARITY AS PEOPLE WORKED FOR INDEPDENDENCE FROM EUROPEAN POWERS HOW DID WWII AFFECT WOMEN? THEY TOOK NON-TRADITIONAL JOBS OUTSIDE OF THE HOME

KEY CONCEPTS WHAT WAS EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066? DESIGNATED WAR ZONES FROM WHICH ANYONE COULD BE REMOVED WHO CREATED THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION? FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WHAT BATTLE ENDED HITLER’S PLANS OF EVER DOMINATING EUROPE? STALINGRAD WHY WERE MANY JEWS PREVENTED FROM LEAVING GERMANY? SOME COUNTRIES REFUSED TO ACCEPT THEM DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION HOW DID NAZI CAMP LEADERS IDENTIFY PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT GROUPS IN THE CAMPS? DIFFERENT GROUPS HAS DIFFERENT SYMBOLS WITH DIFFERENT COLORS

KEY CONCEPTS WHAT WAS A MAJOR RESULT OF THE BATTLE MIDWAY? JAPAN WAS ON THE DEFENSE; JAPAN NEVER AGAIN THREATENED PACIFIC DOMINATION HOW DID POLITICS IN JAPAN CHANGE AFTER WWII? A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT WAS FORMED WHICH TWO NATIONS EMERGED AS SUPER POWERS AFTER WWII? UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION  WHAT DID MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS VOLUNTARILY DO AFTER WWII? JOINED GROUPS THAT WORKED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND FOUGHT TO END SEGREGRATION