WWII REVIEW SHEET!

Please identify and or define the following terms. Use these terms as much as possible in your essay preparation. The best method to prepare is to make flash cards and include an image or drawing representing the term.

Vocabulary
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Munich Conference
Appeasement
Non-aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Stalingrad
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic charter
Pearl Harbor
European Theater
Pacific Theater
D-Day
Operation Overload
V-E Day
Holocaust
Genocide
Nuremberg Trials
Island hopping
Kamikaze
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
V-J Day
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Potsdam Conference
Cold War
Satellite nations
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
NATO
Warsaw Pact

Causes

Effects

1)     Treaty of ____________________ Explain the treaty  and how it caused WW2 2)    Rise of Totalitarian leaders Ø  Italy -   ____________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Ø  Germany -   ________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Ø  USSR -   __________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ 3)    Military Aggression Ø  Examples Germany _________________________ _________________________________________  ________________________________________ Ø  Examples Japan ____________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Examples Italy ______________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 4)    Failure of the League of Nations  ____________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ 5)    Appeasement- __________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ ________________________________________

1)    Defeat of Dictatorships Ø  Democratic Germany, Italy, Japan 2)    Decline of colonialism 3)    Beginning of the Nuclear Age. 4)    Holocaust 5)    Creation of  The United Nations 6)    Rise of  Two Superpowers (the Bipolar world) Ø  __________________________ Ø  __________________________ 7)    The Cold War  3 Early Events A.      B.       C.