Study Guide Fourteen

World War II

Exam Two

 

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the second exam.  The material below consists of important material from the lecture.  Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

 

Terms (definition and significance):

 

Tripartite Pact, Sept. 1940

 

Pearl Harbor

 

War Production Board

 

Office of War Mobilization, 1943

 

U-Boats

 

Liberty Ships

 

Manhattan Project

 

Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1945

 

Roswell, New Mexico, 1947

 

J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

National War Labor Board

 

Office of Price Administration

 

Revenue Act of 1942

 

“Four Freedoms”

 

Office of War Information

 

George Marshall

 

Joint Chiefs of Staff, March 1942

 

Defeat Germany First

 

Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942

 

Battle of Midway, June 1942

 

Battle of El Alamein

 

North African Landings, Nov. 1942

 

Mussolini’s Fall 

 

Invasion of Italy, Sept. 1943

 

Strategic Boming

 

D-Day, June 1944

 

Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 1944

 

VE Day, 8 May 1945

 

Battle of Guadalcanal, Aug. 1942-Feb. 1943

 

Island Hopping

 

Battle of Leyte Gulf, Oct. 1944

 

Kamikaze

 

Battle of Iwo Jim

 

Battle of Okinawa

 

Potsdam Declaration, July 1945

 

Hiroshima, 6 Aug. 1945

 

Nagasaki, 9 Aug. 1945

 

VJ Day, 2 Sept. 1945

 

 

Questions to Think About:

 

What were the problems and events that caused Japan to attack the United States?

 

What was the significance and consequences of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

 

How did the United States shift its economy to a war footing and was it successful?

 

What were the scientific advantages of the various powers in WWII?

 

How did WWII impact on the Great Depression in the US?

 

How did the Roosevelt administration portray the involvement of the US in WWII?

 

What was US strategy toward fighting Germany and Japan?

 

Why was the summer of 1942 significant for the allied cause in WWII?

 

What was the sequence of events that lead to the defeat of Germany in WWII?

 

What was the sequence of events that lead to the defeat of Japan in WWII?

 

Why did the US use atomic weapons against Japan?