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Homework Sheet Unit 14: World War II
Unit Question: WAS WWII THE LAST GREAT WAR?
Date
Mon
3/14
Tues
3/15
Block
3/16
Class Activities
 American Policy: Isolationism and
Appeasement
 The War begins in Europe …and America
 How did America get into WWII? – Concept
Map
 America’s Homefront During WWII
 A Day Which Will Live in Infamy
 Japanese American Internment
 Mobilization
 Rosie the Riveter
 War in the Pacific
 Bataan
 Island Hopping
Homework Due In Class Today

Chapter 37 Part 1: 825-832

Document 1
 Chapter 37 Part 2: 832-845
 Documents 2-4
 Chapter 38 Part 1: 847-859
 Documents 5-7
 Chapter 38 Part 2: 860-865
 War in Europe
Mon
 D-Day and the Allied re-invasion of Europe
 Chapter 38 Part 3: 866-869
3/28
 Receive Unit 14 Review
 Document 9
Tues
 The End of the War
 VE Day
 Holocaust
 Chapter 38 Part 4: 869-876
3/29
 Document 10
 VJ Day
Block
3/30
Friday
4/1
 Finish Notes
 In-class Great Depression DBQ or work on
 Bring a notebook and black pen…
writing….depends how far we get
 Unit 14 Test
 Unit 14 Review
 Receive Unit 15 HW
 Spring Break Assignment
Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
Unit 14: WW2
Content Covered
America’s Pre-War Foreign Policy:
Early FDR Foreign Policy Subordinated to Domestic Concerns; Isolationism; Good Neighbor
Policy; Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; Neutrality; Spanish Civil War; Appeasement; The
Destroyer Deal; Lend-Lease; The Atlantic Charter
War:
Spread of Totalitarian Regimes; Hitler’s Rise in Power and the Spread of Germany; Fall of
France; U-Boat Attack of US Ships; Pearl Harbor – causes and effects; America enters the war;
Germany First Strategy; European Front; Pacific Front; Weapon Development; The Holocaust;
Fall of Berlin; Fall of Japan – Atomic Bomb
Politics:
FDR runs for a 3rd term; Then a 4th Term!
Homefront:
Japanese American Internment; Building the War Machine; Manpower and Womanpower;
Wartime Migrations; Total War; Manhattan Project
Primary Reading
 American Pageant: Chapters 37-38
Secondary Reading
Foreign Policy:
1. The Intervention Issue (1940-1941) – Documents 38-B-1,2, &3 TAS V2 (356-360)
2. FDR Drops the Dollar Sign (1940) [Lend Lease] – Document 38-C-1 TAS V2 (360-362)
3. FDR Proclaims Shoot-at-Sight (1941) – Document 38-D-3 TAS V2 (367-368)
4. Blowup in the Pacific – Documents 38-E-1,2,&3 TAS V2 (368-373)
Homefront:
5. The War Transforms the Economy (1943) – Document 39-A-1 TAS V2 (374-377)
6. Memories of the Internment Camp: Ben Yorita and Philip Hayasaka – Section 28 AF V2
7. Rosie the Riveter: Fannie Christina Hill – Section 27 AF V2
8. A Woman Remembers the War (1984) – Document 39-A-4 TAS V2 (383-385)
War:
9. Ernie Pyle: Street Fighting (1944) – Document 25-11 DAAH V2
10. Dropping the Atomic Bomb (1945) – Document 39-E-1,2,&3 TAS V2 (397-401)
Chapter 37: FDR and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
Cordell Hull
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
6.
7.
reciprocity
totalitarianism
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
London Economic Conference
Good Neighbor policy
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
Nazi party
Rome-Berlin axis
“merchants of death”
Nye committee
Neutrality Acts
Spanish Civil War
IV.
Essay Questions:
4.
5.
8.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Adolf Hitler
Winston Chruchill
isolationism
“Quarantine” speech
Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact
“cash and carry”
“phony war”
Committee to Defend America by
Aiding the Allies
America First Committee
lend-lease
Atlantic Charter
26.
How and why did the United States attempt to isolate itself from foreign troubles in the early and
mid-1930s?
27.
Discuss the effects of the U.S. neutrality laws of the 1930s on both American foreign policy and
the international situation in Europe and East Asia.
28.
How did the Fascist dictators’ continually expanding aggression gradually erode the U.S.
commitment to neutrality?
29.
How did Roosevelt manage to move the United States toward providing effective aid to Britain
while slowly undercutting isolationist opposition?
30.
Was American entry in World War II inevitable? Is it possible the U.S. might have been able to
fight either Germany or Japan while avoiding an armed conflict with the other? Explain.
Chapter 38: America in World War II, 1941-1945
III.
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Henry J. Kaiser
A. Philip Randolph
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Dwight D. Eisenhower
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
War Labor Board
Smith-Connally Act
braceros
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Casablanca Conference
second front
6.
7.
10.
11.
10.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Joseph Stalin
George S. Patton
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S. Truman
Albert Einstein
Teheran Conference
D-Day
V-E Day
Potsdam Conference
V-J Conference
“Double V”
“Island hopping”
Essay Questions:
26.
What effects did World War II have on the American economy? What role did American industry and
agriculture play in the war?
27.
Discuss the effects of World War II on women and on racial and ethnic minorities. Is it accurate to see
the war as a key turning point in the movement toward equality for some or all of these groups?
28.
Ever since World War II, historians and other scholars have commonly spoken of “postwar American
society.” How was American society different after the war than before? Were these changes all direct or
indirect results of the war, or would many have occurred without it?
29.
How did the Unites States and its allies develop and carry out their strategy for defeating Italy,
Germany, and Japan?
30.
What were the costs of World War II, and what were its effects on America’s role in the world?