Name____________________________ Per______
Explain or identify:
Kristallnacht
genocide
concentation camp
Aryan "master race"
untermenschen
cash-and-carry (pg.559)
isolationists (pg. 561)
interventionists (pg.561)
USS Arizona
Selective Service System (pg. 570)
GI (pg.571)
A.Philip Randolph (pg.573)
Nisei
rationing (pg.576)
Alan Turing (bonus)
the second front (pg.581)
Operation Overlord (pg.582)
Malmedy massacre (pg.584)
Navajo Code Talkers (pg.587)
Robert J. Oppenheimer
United Nations (pg.592)
Tuskegee Airmen (pgs.598-599)
Detroit race riots (pg.599)
Zoot-suit riots (pg.599)
1. What did Winston Churchill mean (and to whom was he referring) when he said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (pg.553)
2. Why did the United States block the attempts of Jewish refugees to seek refuge in the U.S.? (pg.555)
3. List five groups who were targeted for extermination by the NAZIS.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
4. Why did the United States enter into an undeclared shooting war with Germany in the fall of 1941 ? (pg.562)
5. What problem did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor solve for Roosevelt ? (pg.565)
6. Why did some members of Congress oppose the creation of the WAAC ? (pg.571)
7. Why did the war create a dilemma for Black Americans and other minorities ? (pg.571)
8. What obstacles did women and minorities face when they tried to find work in factories during the war ? (pgs.573-574)
9. Why did Roosevelt order the internment of Japanese Americans early in 1942 ? (pg.575)
10. Why did Roosevelt and Churchill decide that the defeat of Nazi Germany was to be the Allies' top priority ? (pg.579)
11. Why have some historians criticized the decision of Roosevelt (and reluctantly Churchill) to demand "unconditional surrender" of the Axis powers ? (pg.579)
12. How did HF/DF (high frequency direction finding) "huff duff" turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic ?
13. What key decisions by Hitler and Stalin affected the outcome at Stalingrad ? (pg.580-581)
Hitler -
Stalin -
14. What happened to Mussolini at the end of the war ? (pg.582)
15. Why was Midway such a devastating blow to the Japanese Navy ? (pg.587)
16. In what way did Guadalcanal symbolize the fighting in the Pacific ? (pg.588)
17. In what way did the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa provide a "chilling foretaste" of what the Allies would have faced in an invasion of Japan's home islands ? (pgs.589-590)
18. What were three key decisions reached by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945 ? (pg.592)
a.
b.
c.
19. How were Germany and Japan to be governed by the victorious Allies at the end of the war ? (pg.592-593)
Germany -
Japan -
20. What were the three specific charges against the defendants at the Nurenberg trials ? (pg593)
a.
b.
c.
21. What specific benefits did the GI Bill of Rights provide for returning veterans ? (pg.598)