Chapter 13 Sec. 2-5 Study Guide

Terms

Bataan Death March                                    U-boat                                    Mobilization              

War Production Board                                 Yalta Conference                  U-boats

Selective Training and Service Act Rosie the Riveter                  Operation Overlord  

Manhattan Project                                         Dec. 7, 1941                          Axis Powers

Allied Powers                                                Island hopping                       Rationing

Battles

Pearl Harbor              Java Sea                    Midway                       Okinawa

El Alamein                 Stalingrad                  D-Day                         Bulge

Iwo Jima                     Guadalcanal 

People

Douglas MacArthur               Dwight E. Eisenhower                      Harry S. Truman       

Joseph Stalin             Franklin D. Roosevelt                      

Questions

1.      Explain why the Axis Powers were winning at the beginning of the war. 

2.      List the 3 major turning points for each theater of conflict.

3.      Why was North Africa significant during World War II?

4.      How did the United States mobilize for war?

5.      Why were Japanese Americans interned during the war?

6.      What gains did African Americans and other minorities make during the war?

7.      Describe how the Allies won the war in Europe.

8.      Why did Japan surrender?

9.      What were the total costs of the war (money and people)?

10. What 3 countries made up the Axis Powers? What countries made up the Allied Powers?

11. Who were the candidates for the election of 1944?  Who won?

Also on Test…

            -Map of US and (must identify certain states)

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