Chapter 23-24 Study Guide

World War II Begins

Terms and People:

 Joseph Stalin  Cash and Carry

 Benito Mussolini  Blitzkrieg
 Adolf Hitler  Axis Powers
 Neville Chamberlain  Genocide
 Winston Churchill  Kristallnacht
 Charles de Gaulle  Atlantic Charter
 Marshall Petain  Allies
 Nazism  Hideki Tojo
 Fascism  Emperor Hirohito
 Totalitarianism  Admiral Isoruko Yamamoto
 Neutrality Acts  Sudetenland
 Appeasement  Lebensraum
 Nonaggression Pact  Danzig
 Munich Pact  Pearl Harbor
 Lend-Lease Act  Embargo
 Rhineland
 Nuremberg Laws

Things to Know:
 The differences between fascism and communism
 The causes of WWII
 The process of appeasement that took place prior to the start of WWII
 Why the embargo caused Japan to attack the US at Pearl Harbor
 The failure of the League of Nations
 How the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the rise of totalitarianism in Europe
 Reasons for Hitler’s attack on Russia
 Reasons for and methods used to discriminate Jews in Germany

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Key Terms and People:

 George Marshall
 Office of Price Administration
 War Production Board
 Rationing
 Dwight D. Eisenhower
 D-Day
 George S. Patton
 Harry S. Truman
 Battle of the Bulge
 V-E Day
 V-J Day
 Douglass MacArthur
 Chester Nimitz
 Kamikaze
 Manhattan Project
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Hiroshima
 Nagasaki
 Yalta Conference
 United Nations
 Nuremberg Trials
 G.I. Bill
 Okinawa
 Midway
 Coral Sea
 Guadalcanal