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CHAPTER 17
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II
Section One – Mobilizing for Defense
Objectives
1. Explain how the United States expanded its armed forces in World War II
2. Describe the wartime mobilization of industry, labor, scientists, and the media.
3. Trace the efforts of the U. S. government to control the economy and deal with
alleged subversion.
Vocabulary & ID’s
George Marshall
A. Philip Randolph
Manhattan Project
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp(WAAC)
Office of Price Administration(OPA)
War Production Board(WPB)
rationing
Section Two - North Africa
Objectives
1. Summarize the Allies’ plan for winning the war.
2. Identify events in the war in Europe.
3. Describe the liberation of Europe.
Vocabulary & ID’s
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
V-E Day
Omar Bradley
Harry S. Truman
George Patton
Section Three – The War in the Pacific
Objectives
1. Identify key turning points in the war in the Pacific.
2. Describe the Allied offensive against the Japanese.
3. Explain both the development of the atomic bomb and debates about its use.
4. Describe the challenges faced by the Allies in building a just and lasting peace.
Vocabulary & ID’s
Douglas MacArthur
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chester Nimitz
Hiroshima
Battle of Midway
Nuremberg trials
kamikaze
Nagasaki
Section Four – The Home Front
Objectives
1. Describe the economic and social changes that reshaped American life during
World War II.
2. Summarize both the opportunities and the discrimination African Americans and
other minorities experienced during the war.
Vocabulary & ID’s
GI Bill of Rights
Internment
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality(CORE)
Japanese American Citizens League(JACL)