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.The Allies adopted a “Europe First” strategy because Italy threatened to conquer from the eastern Adriatic to East Africa
Wartime migration caused the worst incident of racial violence in Detroit, Michigan (this was one of the times during my
lecture that I told you guys you must read about it in your textbooks)… There was an incident with AfricanAmericans and Whites as well as with Mexican Americans and Whites.
Know why Stalin wanted Britain and the United States to open a second front in France.
What was President Truman’s chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan?
Nazi ideology considered Aryans to be superior to other people.
At the 1942 Wannsee Conference, Reinhard Heydrich outlined a plan to exterminate about 11,000,000 Jews.
One result of World War II was that Colonial peoples renewed their drive for independence from European powers.
Allied bombing of Germany in 1942 changed the war because it helped pave the way for a later all-out offensive.
What type of organizations did many African Americans join During World War II?
Population shifts changed American life during the war by the south west becoming a growing cultural, social, economic,
and political force.
How did Executive Order 9066 affected civil liberties in the United States?
Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to attack Germany on the Western Front at the Tehran Conference
What was one effect of the D-Day invasion? (“Saving Private Ryan”)
One of the effects of the Battle of the Bulge was that Germany used its reserves and demoralized its troops in the battle.
As American forces approached Japan, Japanese forces fought to the end, preferring to kill themselves rather than
surrender.
What was fact that limited the U.S.’s response to the Holocaust?
What was an outcome of the 1945 conference in Potsdam?
did Japan change politically after World War II? (think of what their new constitution changed- see your notes)
What was the United Nations (U.N.) organized to do?
Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
“Connie My Dearest,. . . Well, here I am just off the coast of Normandy taking part in the invasion of Europe.
We are doing remarkable well, especially when you take into consideration the opposition we are up
against. . . . Well the troops were landed and then there was one continued stream of reinforcements and
stores pouring in. We saw a sight during the first evening that was unbelievable. The airborne came over and
it is utterly impossible for me to describe our feelings when we saw them. From one horizon to the other that
is as far as the eye can see, the sky was blacked out by transports and gliders, there were hundreds besides the
fighter cover that accompanied them. Never had anyone seen anything like it. . . .”
—W. Cutler, to his fiancée, June 1944
What development did Cutler call “unbelievable”?
Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them
very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re
sending all the Jews. . . . If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized
places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English
radio says they’re being gassed.”
—Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, Oct. 9, 1942
What was the Westerbork to which Frank referred?
What, in theory, was the purpose of concentration camps?
Use the table and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
Which of the following measures were taken when the Allies dealt with war criminals that violated provisions of the
Geneva Convention?
As always, you will have questions to answer with charts.
Which countries remained under Soviet control after the end of World War II?
Who first spoke of the “iron curtain”? (he was part of the ORIGINAL big three)
In order to try to gain control over West Berlin, the Soviet Union set up a total blockade cutting off that section of the city.
An impact of the Korean War have on U.S. budgets was that military spending increased and became a larger proportion
of future budgets.
On September 2, 1949 a sudden change in U.S.-Soviet relations was caused because the Soviet Union set off an atomic
bomb.
Did John Foster Dulles (Eisenhower’s secretary of state) promote the policy of brinkmanship?
How did the CIA participate in the Cold War?
What was one place on the globe where the Cold War was “hot” and U.S. soldiers fought and died? (this place is divided
North and South by the 38th parallel)
Where did Senator McCarthy first announce that the State Department was infested with communists?
What led to Senator McCarthy’s downfall?
Use the table and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
You will have some questions that go along with the table above.
In response to NATO, with whom did the Soviet Union form the Warsaw Pact? (think of what side belonged to StalinS.U.)
Use the table and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
You will have a question to go along with the above table.
You will have questions to go along with a timeline
Know the difference between the Truman Doctrine and Eisenhower Doctrine.
What was the Eisenhower doctrine?
Use the flowchart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
What was HUAC responsible for?
What was a result of the Hollywood Ten trial?
Know about the 442nd infantry, 100th Battalion. In this case, what do historians refer to as “decorated”? Think in terms of
Japanese Americans or Japanese dressed either in their uniforms or the U.S uniform.
You will have 3 questions for the matching section- you will need to know the following names/ items.
Erwin Rommel
Tuskegee Airmen
442nd Regimental Combat Team
A. Philip Randolph
bracero program
rationing
Operation Overlord
War Refugee Board
“Europe First” strategy
genocide
island hopping
United Nations
Yalta Conference
You will have 6 Documents (DBQs) with two answers each. You will have to read through them and write
your answers for each. You will provide your subjective analysis on each. You should be able to answer the
questions based on what we’ve covered, what you have read and the information provided on each document.