Unit Eight Test Review

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1 Unit Eight Test Review 1. How had the Treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for the outbreak of World War Two? 2. What worldwide event led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany? 3. Explain the importance of the Battle of Midway: 4. What was the central thesis of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf? 5. Who was Hideki Tojo? What was his opinion about Japan waging war on America? 6. Describe Blitzkrieg: 7. Which nations comprised the Allied Powers during WW2? 8. Explain the political philosophy of fascism: 9. By what method did the Japanese Empire undertake to address its economic problems? 10. Explain the events surrounding the Battle of Britain: 11. Explain the importance of the Battle of Okinawa: 12. What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? How did it affect American attitudes towards US entry into WW2? 13. Before US entry into WW2, many Americans held isolationist opinions. What does that mean? Why? 14. Who, according to Adolf Hitler, are the Aryans? Why did he consider them important? 15. Explain the role of the Blackshirts in Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy: 16. What was the US' goal in its "island hopping" campaign?

2 17. What was the significance of the passage of the "Lend-Lease" act prior to US entry into WW2? 18. What is appeasement? How did this policy affect the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany? 19. Which nations comprised the Axis Powers during WW2? 20. What was the importance of the Battle of Iwo Jima? 21. What was the importance of the Battle of Guadalcanal? 22. How did the D-Day invasion affect the European theater of WW2? 23. What was the importance of the Battle of the Bulge? 24. Explain the importance of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact: 25. Why did President Harry Truman make the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 26. Who were the Kamikaze? 27. What was the goal of the Manhattan Project? 28. What was the purpose of the Japanese internment camps that were established after the attack on Pearl Harbor? 29. Who was "Rosie the Riveter"? What changes in the US workforce does she symbolize? Explain the role of the following individuals in the course and outcome of World War Two: 30. Franklin D. Roosevelt Albert Einstein Josef Stalin Hideki Tojo J. Robert Oppenheimer Benito Mussolini Winston Churchill Harry S. Truman--

3 38. How was the Soviet Union able to take control of so many Eastern European nations in the period after WW2? 39. What is the general mission of the United Nations? 40. With respect to the UN, what is the difference between the General Assembly and the Security Council? 41. Which nations belong to the UN Security Council? 42. Describe the fundamental differences between the US and the USSR: 43. What were the "Satellite States" of the Soviet Union? 44. What was Winston Churchill describing in his famous "Iron Curtain" speech? 45. Describe the Truman Doctrine of "Containment": 46. What was the Marshall Plan? Why was it necessary? 47. What was the PRIMARY goal of the Marshall Plan? What was its result? 48. Which event precipitated the Berlin Crisis? How did the US respond? Explain the importance of the American response: 49. What is NATO? What is its goal? 50. What was the Warsaw Pact? 51. Explain the concept of "collective security": 52. Describe the American-Soviet "arms race": 53. What is a proxy war? With whom did the US wage a number of proxy wars? Where were those wars fought?

4 54. What was Sputnik? How did the US react to the launch of Sputnik? 55. Who was Joseph McCarthy? What is "McCarthyism"? 56. Who were Julius & Ethel Rosenberg? 57. What occurred in China in 1949? 58. How did the Korean War begin? How did it end? 59. Why was General Douglas MacArthur relieved from duty? 60. Why did the United States choose to intervene in Vietnam in the late 1950's? 61. Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution? 62. What did Fidel Castro do that greatly angered the United States? How did the US respond? What was the result of our response? 63. The 1950's saw the rise of "Big Business". What is "Big Business"? 64. What were some corporations that became large and powerful during the 1950's? 65. How did computers change in the 1950's? 66. Who was Jonas Salk? What was his invention? 67. What was the Baby Boom? What was the result? 68. What was the GI Bill? 69. What was the original purpose of the interstate highway system?

5 70. How did Americans' religious practices change in the 1950's? Why? Who was the leader of the new evangelism? 71. How did the popularity of Rock and Roll music affect American society in the 1950's?