WWII Test Review

The Vocabulary...
Island hopping was the US plan to defeat Japan by attacking islands in the Pacific that weren't as well defended and gradually move up. Containment keeps Communism under control. Manhatten Project was the building of the Atomic Bomb. Neutrality Acts were passed by Congress in 1935 that made it illegal for Americans to sell guns to any country at war. "Big Three" refers to FDR, Churchill and Stalin. Rationing is limiting goods during a time of war. Kristalnecht or night of broken glass was a night of anti-Jewish violence (broke the glass of all Jewish owned businesses). Appeasement is giving into demands - Britain and France gave into Hitler. Genocide is killing of one group (race) of people. Isolationism is when a country wants to worry about itself and not what other countries are doing. Totalitarism is when a country is run by a dictator like facism, nazism and communism and has total control of the government and economy. Mobilization referes to getting ready for war. Interment camps have people relocate from their own homes to a government controlled area so they can keep their eye on them.

Here are the answers to the next set of questions...
legislative/attack on Pearl Harbor/Germany, Japan and Italy/Hawaiian Islands - December 7, 1941/June 6, 1944 aka D-Day or Operation Overlord - General Omar Bradley/Eisenhower/Britain held off Germany (remember Churchill quote)/code breakers/two fronts/Treaty of Versailles - Economic depression - Appeasement - Militarism/Iwo Jima and Okinawa/Midway (Pacific) and El Alamein (European Front even though it is in North Africa)/Britain, France, US, China and Soviet Union.

Be able to locate on a map...
Italy - Mussolini; Soviet Union - Stalin; Germany - Hitler
Germany started WWII by invading Poland/Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific/the Allied invasion of Europe occurred in Normandy, France/the Bataan Death March took place on the Phillipines/the first sea battle fought entirely by aircraft was fought in the Coral Sea (by Australia)/Japan invaded Manchuria - China in 1937

Review Material...
bad land and unfamiliar way of life/settled the area/Progressive Era late 1800's/monopoly - total control of the market share/telephone and telegraph/expansionism/Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson/power to propose and pass legislation/Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism/literary and artistic acheivments of African Americans in the 1920s/intolerance/John T. Scopes - teaching evolution - intolerance - William Jennings Bryan battled against teaching evolution for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow defended Scopes/October 29, 1929/African Americans from the rural south/decreased/The New Deal.

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