World+War+2

Guiding Questions for Reviewing Notes, Reviewing Text, and Studying.

1. Briefly identify the three main axis countries and their rise as aggressor nations. 2. How was the Nye Committee significant in shaping American foreign policy opinions? 3. What was “appeasement” and how did it fail from 1935 to 1939? 4. How was the United States’ response to the war in Europe biased? 5. What were the significance of the disputes with Japan surrounding their attack on Pearl Harbor? What was the American response? 6. What was the Island Hopping Campaign in the Pacific and what were the results of this strategy? 7. How did the atomic bomb change the shape of war during WW2 and beyond? 8. What were the changes seen for women, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native-Americans, and Japanese-Americans? 9. Identify the various conferences and their main results (Casablanca, Yalta, Potsdam)



Here's a more specific list of items to focus for your World War 2 Quiz
 * Arsenal of Democracy
 * Executive Order #9066
 * Atlantic Charter
 * Nye Committee
 * Four Freedoms
 * Einstein
 * Oppenheimer
 * Appeasement
 * China's Government
 * Pearl Harbor
 * D-Day
 * Chester Nimitz
 * Douglas MacArthur
 * Coral Sea
 * Midway
 * Blitzkreig
 * ENIGMA
 * Yalta, Potsdam, Casablanca Conferences
 * Minorities
 * Island Hopping