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Prentice Hall: United States History
Chapter 24: World War II
Section 1 – The Allies Turn the Tide (pgs 802-808)
Standards: 3(a)
TERMS & PEOPLE
- Dwight
Eisenhower
- George S.
Patton, Jr.
- unconditional
surrender
- saturation
bombing
-strategic
bombing
- Tuskegee
Airmen
-Chester Nimitz
-Battle of Midway
Focus Question:
 How did the Allies turn the tide against the Axis?
Checkpoint Questions
1. Why did the Allies decide to concentrate first on the war in
Europe?
2. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point in World War II?
3. What were the goals of the British and American bombing runs
over Germany?
4. What impact did the Battle of Midway have on Japanese
expansion in the Pacific?
Section 2 – The Home Front (pgs 809-814)
Standards: 5 (d)
TERMS & PEOPLE
- A. Philip
Randolph
-Executive
Order 8802
-Bracero
Program
-internment
- 442nd
Regimental
Combat Team
-Rationing
-OWI
Focus Question:
 How did the war change America at home?
Checkpoint Questions
1. How did the war create new opportunities for African
Americans?
2. How did the war affect the location of industries and workers in
the United States?
3. Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II?
4. How did the federal government control resources needed for
the war effort?
Section 3 – Victory in Europe and the Pacific (pgs 818-827)
Standards: 5 (b)
TERMS & PEOPLE
- D-Day
-Battle of the
Bulge
-Harry S.
Truman
-Island Hopping
- Kamikaze
-Albert Einstein
-Manhattan
Project
-J. Robert
Oppenheimer
Focus Question:
 How did the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?
Checkpoint Questions
1. On what issue did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill disagree?
2. What was the primary objective of the D-Day invasion at
Normandy?
3. What were the results of the Battle of the Bulge?
4. Why was the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific so deadly to
both sides?
5. What were the consequences of the decision to bomb Hiroshima
and Nagasaki?
Section 4 – The Holocaust (pgs 828-833)
Standards: 5 (d)
TERMS & PEOPLE
- Holocaust
-anti-Semitism
-Nuremberg
laws
-Kristallnacht
- genocide
- concentration
camp
-death camp
- War Refugee
Board
Focus Question:
 How did the Holocaust develop and what were its results?
Checkpoint Questions
1. How did Hitler enforce anti-Semitism as chancellor of Germany?
2. What actions did the Nazis take to carry out Hitler’s “Final
Solution”?
3. How did the U.S. government respond to the German campaign
against European Jews?
Section 5 – Effects of the War (pgs 834-839)
Standards: 5 (c)
TERMS & PEOPLE
-Yalta
Conference
-superpower
-GATT
-United Nations
Focus Question:
 What were the major immediate and long term effects of World
- Universal
War II?
Declaration of
Checkpoint Questions
Human Rights
1. What goals did the Allies set for European Europe at the Yalta
-Geneva
Conference?
Convention
2. What impact did World War II have on the relative roles of the
-Nuremberg Trial
United States and Britain in the world?
3. What steps did the United States take to increase its role in the
postwar world?
4. How did World War II foster support for civil rights?