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CHAPTER 35: AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II
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The Allies Trade Space for Time
Know: ABC-1 agreement, Germany First
1.
"America's task was far more complex and back-breaking [in World War II] than in World War I."
Explain.
The Shock of War
Know: Executive Order No. 9066, Internment
2.
How did the war affect the New Deal at home?
Camps, Korematsu v. U.S.
Building the War Machine
Know: War Production Board, Office of Price Administration, National War Labor Board, Smith-Connally AntiStrike Act
3.
What effects did the war have on manufacturing, agriculture and labor?
Manpower and Womanpower
Know: WAACS, WAVES, SPARS, Braceros, Rosie the Riveter
4.
What opportunities were opened to women
as a result of the war and how
accurate was their role portrayed?
Wartime Migrations
Know: A. Philip Randolph, Fair Employment Practices Commission, Double V, CORE, Code Talkers, Zoot
Suit Riots
5.
What effect did the war have on the nation's minorities?
Holding the Homefront
Know: Office of Scientific Research and Development
6.
What economic effects resulted from American participation in the war?
The Rising Sun in the Pacific
Know: Douglas MacArthur, Bataan Death March
7.
Describe Japanese victories in the Pacific
in the months following Pearl
Harbor.
Japan's High Tide at Midway
Know: Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway , Chester Nimitz
8.
Why was Midway an important battle?
American Leapfrogging Toward Tokyo
Know: Guadalcanal, Island Hopping (leapfrogging), Guam
9.
What strategy did the United States use to defeat the Japanese?
The Allied Halting of Hitler
Know: Wolf Packs, Enigma, Erwin Rommel, Bernard Montgomery, Battle of Stalingrad
10.
"The war against Hitler looked much better at the end of 1942 than it
had in the beginning." Explain.
A Second Front from North Africa to Rome
Know: Soft Underbelly of Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Casablanca, Sicily
11.
Why was FDR’s promise to Stalin impossible to keep?
12.
Describe the purpose and outcome of the Invasion of North Africa.
D-Day: June 6, 1944
Know: Teheran, D-Day, Normandy, George Patton
13.
Why could June 6, 1944 be considered THE
turning point of the war?
FDR: The Fourth-Termite of 1944
Know: Thomas Dewey, Henry Wallace, Harry S Truman
14.
Why was the choice of a vice-presidential candidate important and difficult for the democrats in 1944?
Roosevelt Defeats Dewey
15.
What factors led to Roosevelt's victory over Dewey?
The Last Days of Hitler
Know: Battle of the Bulge, Holocaust, April 12, 1945, V-E
16.
Describe the last six months of war in Europe.
Japan Dies Hard
Know: Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Kamikazes
17.
Why was it so hard to make
Day
Japan surrender?
The Atomic Bombs
Know: Potsdam, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Hirohito, V-J
18.
What was the military impact of the atomic bomb?
The Allies Triumphant
Know: George Marshall
19.
"This complex conflict was the best fought war in America's history." Explain
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