World War II

Review Questions Chapter 25

1. What happens to U. S. relations with the Soviet Union during the 1930's? What was the Good Neighbor Policy? How was it different from policies of the past? Why did the United States feel a need for the Good Neighbor Policy?

2. Why did the fascists gain power in the 1920's and 30's in Europe? What was the feeling of the people in the United State about being involved foreign wars?

3. What happens in Ethiopia and Spain? What is the United States reaction? Why does the United States react the way it did?

4. How does Hitler go about bring war in Europe? What is the relationship between Hitler and the Soviet Union? Describe what the United States does as a "neutral" with the war in Europe?
What is cash-and-carry and lend-lease? What does Charles Lindbergh feel the United States should do?

5. What was the United States reaction to Japanese nationalists in power? What do you think was the underlying cause for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor?

6. How did the government directly run parts of U.S. industry to help fight the war? How did World War II affect the American economy?

7. How was the civilian population affected by the war? What do you think about civil rights during the World War II compared to World War I? Who lost all civil rights? Why?

8. How did World War II affect African Americans and Hispanics? Who was Rosie the Riveter? What did women do during the war? What were the effects of the war on GIs?

9. What did the Atlantic Charter call for? What was the initial strategy for fighting the war against both Germany and Japan?

10. What problems did the U.S., Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. face to work together as Allies? Who had the greatest losses during the war? How did Allies' military plan to win the war? What happened at Casablanca, Teheran, and Yalta conferences that affected the war and after the war?
 

11. How could something like the Holocaust happen? Could it happen again?

12. Why did the United States have success in the Pacific against Japan?

13. What is Operation Overlord? What happen at Dresden?

14. How did the United States become the country to build the atomic bomb? Who is considered the father of the atomic bomb? Should the United States have used the Bomb? Why and why not? By using the atomic bomb how did some people think it would help the U.S. after the war?