Name________________________________________ April 22nd, 2015 Period

Unit 10: World War II Review

The fighting of World War I ended in 1918 when the Triple Alliance and Central Alliance signed
the _________________. The next year the _______________________ officially ended the war and
put all of the blame for the war on ___________________. The Allied Powers also punished Germany
by making them pay ___________________ to England and France to pay for the cost of the war. The
Treaty of Versailles also forced Germany to change its government. The country became a democracy
known as the ________________ Republic. The new democracy was ineffective, and the reparations
devastated the countrys economy. The poor economy allowed extremists to come to power in politics
like Adolf Hitler and the ________ party during the early 1930s.
Hitler blamed the Treaty of ____________ for all of Germanys problems. Hitler came to power
by following the example of his idol, Italian dictator ____________________. Both Hitler and
Mussolini used a form of government called _________________ which was similar to Joseph Stalins
____________________ but had an emphasis on the building of armies and weapons, or
______________________.
During the 1930s Hitler began to violate the terms of the _________________________ by
rebuilding Germanys armies and navies. He also reconquered neighboring countries like
Czechoslovakia and Austria because he claimed they had Germans in them. The leaders of England
and France followed a policy of ______________________ in which they did not try to stop Hitlers
aggression. They hoped giving in to Hitler would satisfy him and prevent ________.
In 1939, Hitler invaded _________________ and started WWII. What followed was the
deadliest, most destructive, and most expensive war in the history of mankind. Hitler had shown he
incapable of being satisfied with the territory he gained, he even violated the non-aggression pact he
signed with Stalin by attacking _____________________ in 1941. Like _________________ in the
1800s, Hitlers attack of Russia was unsuccessful because of the terrible Russian ________________.
In 1944 The USA became involved directly in the European war. America had been at war with
Japan since 1941 when the Japanese surprise-attacked the US naval fleet at _______________. In
Europe, the Americans, French, British and other _____________ Powers planned a large invasion of
German-occupied France. The attack was known as ___________. The plan involved attacking
German-held locations and forcing the Germans back to ____________, the capital of Germany. Other
Allied troops attacked from Italian/German-occupied Africa and fought their way to
_______________, the capital of Italy. The Italians were quickly defeated because of this campaign.
The Soviets formed the third part of the attack, and fought the Germans back toward Germany. The
tide of the war turned in favor of the _____________________.
By April of 1945 Germany was clearly losing the war. Hitler committed suicide and a few days
later Germany formally surrendered. The Allies turned their attention to the last Axis Power country,
________________. Through the strategy of ______________________ where US marines would

attack different islands in the Pacific, the Allies worked their way closer to mainland Japan. The US
had developed a new, secret powerful weapon, the ______________, and warned Japan to surrender or
risk being attacked with it. Japan refused and the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese
cities of _______________________ and _______________. The weapon was unbelievably powerful
and killed an estimated 200,000 people. Japan surrendered days later and the largest war ever fought
was officially over.
Hitler had tremendous pride in his country and felt the Germans were better than any other
group of people. He wanted to allow the Master Race of Germans, or ____________, to spread all
over Europe and the World. Hitler felt other races were inferior to the Aryans, especially the ______,
whom he blamed for many of Germany and the worlds problems in history. Throughout his time in
power and World War II, Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews of Europe, as well as other ethnic groups
that were inferior to the Aryans.
After WWII ended the League of Nations was replaced by the __________________. They
determined Hitlers attempts to wipe out the Jews to be a crime of __________________. Many Nazi
leaders who lived through the war were tried for their Human Rights __________________ at the
_________________________. This set the precedent that leaders would be held accountable for their
crimes against humanity.

Word Bank
Reparations

war

Totalitarianism

Climate/winter

Japan

Appeasement

Weimar

Poland

Treaty of Versailles 2X

Militarism

Island Hopping

Berlin

Napoleon

Versailles

Mussolini

Jews

Atomic Bomb

Fascism

Russia

Armistice

Aryans

Pearl Harbor

Nagasaki

Rome

Allied

Nazi

Genocide

Nuremberg Trials

United Nations

Violations

Hiroshima

Allied Powers

D-Day Germany