Thursday, February 28, 2013

Chapter 8 - America Victorious


1. “island hopping”
2. Douglas MacArthur
3. 5 w’s of D-Day
4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. “Operation Overlord”
6. dates for World War II
7. Harry S. Truman
8. Location of atomic bomb
9. The effect of dropping the atomic bomb
10. “kamikaze” attacks
11. How long after D-Day, does Germany surrender
12. located of German concentration camps.
13. “Holocaust”
14. The “Final Solution”
15. Auschwitz
16. Yalta conference decisions
17. Germany’s last desperate attempt to stop the Allied advance
18. The Manhattan Project
19. Tehran Conference decisions
20. Audie Murphy
21. Claus van Stauffenberg
22. George Patton
23. Thomas Dewey
24. Vyacheslav Molotov
25. Charles De Gaulle
26. Dwight Eisenhower
27.Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Tehran and Yalta Conferences
28. “the second front”
29. What are some criticisms concerning the use of atomic weapons by the U.S. in 1945?

Monday, February 11, 2013

Chapter 7 - Leading the Grand Alliance

The Atlantic Charter

Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”                          
Pearl Harbor

Norman Rockwell

Vichy France

Charles de Gaulle

Isoroku Yamamoto

Hirohito

Examples of Japanese imperialism

Douglas MacArthur:

Factors that lead to internment camps

Auschwitz                                                          
Final Solution

Wannsee Conference

 “gulag”

Harry Hopkins

oil embargo

 “Rosie the Riveter

Executive Order 9066 16.

“Wolfpacks”

 “Rape of Nanking”

Battle of Coral sea                                                                 

Battle of Midway

Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Leningrad                                               
Benjamin Davis                                                                                                                                     Reinhard Heydrich                                                         
General Winter                                                             
Johnnie Walker                                                                       
Henry Kaiser                                                                     
-Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor                                
-Hitler’s mistakes and key events and factors led the war to turn in the favor of the Allies                    -Social changes brought about by World War II