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Friday, February 26, 2010

WWII Exam Study Tips...

For help on what to recover, read, and study here are the portions from the book to be sure to brush up on prior to the Exam and what the key information to focus on should be. We will be playing Jeopardy in class on Thursday to review this information so be sure to have gone over the information and reading before then. As always you can make a note card for the exam and on the night before I will be on the discussion board online on the blog from 6:30-7:00 to answer any questions that you may have. Remember that this will be a multiple choice exam which means that you will have to know the information quite well. Good luck and I hope this helps you with your preparations for the exam next week on March 5th!

Revisit Chapter 24 Section 4.
Understand the Age of Uncertainty surrounding the time period that followed Americans well into the war.

Chapter 25 Sections 1 and 2. Chapter 25 Section 4.
Understand the Great Depression, contributing factors/causes, Hoover's approach, the Bonus Army, Know how FDR conveyed his message of hope to Americans, why they turned to him and what he did to help (The New Deal & Second New Deal). Know the programs and their purposes.

Chapter 26 (ALL).
Know the leaders (Stalin, Churchill, Tojo, Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco) & main Generals (Eisenhower, Rommel, MacArthur, Nimitz, & Patton). Understand the lead up to the war... Hitler's March Across Europe, Understand why America stayed neutral for so long, and then, entered the war. (Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor) Know about the War in Europe (Start, Key Battles, & Tide Changes), North Africa, & in the Pacific (Strategies, Fighting Styles, Key Battles, Bataan Death March). Understand the role of minorities in the war and how their experiences differed (Tuskegee Airmen vs. Japanese Internment). Know the Holocaust & Holdomor, who was targeted, what happened, & how ordinary people became perpetrators of violence. Study the death of FDR and the impact it had on the nation, politics, and who became leader. Know the Manhattan Project, Albert Einstein, and the droppings of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
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