World War II Powerpoint Note Taking Guide

Chapter 17:  World War II:  The Road to War (1931-1941)

Totalitarian governments-

fascism-

Stalin's economic plans

    1.  effect on agriculture production leads to mass starvation

    2. 

    3.  major industrial power but low standard of living

Stalin's reign of terror

    purges-

    result-

Fascism in Italy

    Benito Mussolini-

        nickname-

        rule improved the Italian economy how?

Hitler's Rise to Power

    Hitler's background/Versailles treaty

    Nazi party-

    Mein Kampf-

    Der Fuhrer means _________ ____________

March 7th, 1936-Germany enters Rhineland -region in Western Germany

    Axis powers-

    appeasement-

Spanish Civil War-

    Francisco Franco-

Results-

Section 2:  Europe goes to war

    September 1st, 1939-

        blitzkrieg-

collaboration-

Allies-

Battle of Britain-

    RAF-

Section 3:  Japan builds an Empire

Manchurian incident

puppet state

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Tripartite Pact-

Section 4:  From Isolationism to War

Neutrality Acts-

    1st-

    2nd-

    3rd-cash and carry-

America First Committee

Lend-Lease Act

December 7th, 1941-

    "a date which will live in infamy"

Chapter 18:  World War II:  Americans at War (1941-1945)

Section 1:  Mobilization

    The Selective Training and Service Act

    GIs

    code talkers-

    Office of War mobilization-

    liberty ships

Smith-Connally Act

Financing the War

    debt increase:

Daily life on the Home front-

    Office of Price Administration-

    victory gardens-

Section 2:  Retaking Europe

Atlantic Charter

Battle of the Atlantic

North Africa Campaign

The Invasion of Italy

The German Advance

The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)

RAF and Carpet bombing-

Operation Overlord-

D-Day-

Battle of the Bulge-

Yalta Conference-

    1.

    2.

    3.

    4.

Section 3:  The Holocaust

anti-semitism-

Holocaust-

concentration camps-

Kristallnacht-

Warsaw ghetto-

Wannsee Conference-

genocide-

death camps

War Refugee Board

Nuremburg Trials

Section 4:  The War in the Pacific

Bataan Death March

Geneva Convention

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Battle of Guadalcanal

island-hopping

Battle of Leyte Gulf

kamikazes

Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Okinawa

Manhattan Project

Section 5:  The Social Impact of the War

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

braceros

barrios

interned

Nisel

Rosie the Riveter