US History
Topic 10 Study Guide – World War II and the Holocaust
Notes – The Coming of the Storm; Bushido: The Spirit Warriors; The Nation Mobilized; The Application of Force; The Final Solution; The Resistance
Reading – Hitler Changes the West (packet) Stimson’s justification for the use of the Atomic Bomb (packet); Revisionist Arguments Against the A-Bombs; “Hot” Historical Issues: A-Bomb; A Noiseless Flash (packet); The Holocaust (packet); Elie Wiesel’s Night
Names to Know
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Jeanette Rankin
General Erwin Rommel
General George S. Patton
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General MacArthur
Admiral Nimitz
General Yamayoto
Eva Braun
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Col. Paul W. Tibbets
Emperor Hirohito
Dr. Josef Mengele
Henry S. Stimson
Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Bielski Brothers
Hannah Szenes
Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary
Totalitarianism
Volk or Aryan
Lebensraum
Lend-Lease
Anschluss
Kristallnacht
Isolationism
Leapfrogging
Einsatzgruppen
Gestapo
Third Reich
Anti-Semitism
Pogroms
Freikorps
Wehrmacht
Luftwaffe
Blitzkrieg
Yamato damashii
Bushido
Gaizin
Hakku Ichiu
Kamikaze
Stutzpunkten
Reprisal
Hibakusha
Untermenschen
Concepts, Short Answer, & Multiple Choice
Kellogg-Briand Pact
characteristics of Fascism
demagoguery
ideas in Mein Kampf
Appeasement
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Act
Operation Barbarossa
Japanese militarism, culture
rise of imperial Japan
Rape of Nanking
Pearl Harbor
kamikaze and kairyu
Anti-German vs. Anti-Japanese propaganda
Executive Order 9066
Japanese internment
Nisei vs. Isei
results of women’s mobilization into the workforce
publicity/propaganda campaign directed towards women
Native American “Code Talkers”
Reasons for “Germany first” war plans
distrust among the allies
Declaration of United Nations and the Atlantic Charter
Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” and the “Atlantic Wall”
Allied Offensives
- “Strategic” Bombing
- North Africa
- Italy
- Normandy why did it almost fail?
Doolittle Raids
“Leapfrogging” in the Pacific
Battle of Saipan
Bataan Death March
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
effectiveness of carpet bombing/firebombing in Japan
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Declaration
Enola Gay
Holocaust & genocide
Nuremberg Laws
Wannsee Conference
“Final Solution”
coping mechanisms of the perpetrators of the Holocaust how/why could they kill people in this way?
Camp Darwin
American response to the Holocaust
Jewish Resistance movements
- The White Rose
- Jewish Brigade
- Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw & Vilna)
- Jewish Partisan fighters Bielski Brothers