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AP U.S. History
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Chapter Twenty Six: “America’s Rise to Globalism”
Learning Objectives:
After reading the chapter, you should be able to:
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1. Explain why the United States was unable to remain isolated from the German,
Italian, and Japanese aggression in the 1930s.
2. Understand the longterm lessons Americans brought away from the policy of
isolation that led to appeasement at Munich and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
3. Explain how the Allies’ grasp of global military, diplomatic, and economy strategy
led to victory.
4. Discuss and evaluate the praise and criticism Franklin Roosevelt received for his
leadership during World War II.
5. Explain how war work affected the lives of ordinary Americans, especially women.
6. Discuss the experiences and responses of minorities during the war.
7. Discuss key issues of domestic politics during the war, especially those involving
labor, taxes, New Deal reforms, and Roosevelt’s reelection to a fourth term.
8. Describe how the end of the war forced Americans to confront the Holocaust, the
atomic bomb, and deteriorating SovietAmerican relations.
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Terms and Names:
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Pearl Harbor
Axis Powers
Allies
Roots of World War II
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan’s expansionism
Korea
China
Stimson Doctrine
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Good Neighbor Policy
Renunciation of Platt Amendment
Rise of fascism
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Nye Committee
Internationalists
Isolationists
Neutrality legislation and its faults
Neutrality Act of 1935
Spanish Civil War
Neutrality Act of 1937
“cash and carry”
Japan in China
Anti-Comintern Pact—Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Domestic constraints of FDR’s foreign policy
“Quarantine” of aggressive nations?
Hitler’s aggression
Austria
Sudetenland
Munich Pact (1938) and appeasement
Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
Poland and Germany’s blitzkrieg
Retreat from isolationism
Lend-Lease Act
“the great arsenal of democracy”
Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Atlantic Charter
“Four Freedoms”
The Pacific Theater
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
FDR’s response to continuing Japanese aggression
Pearl Harbor
Strategies for war
1942
U-Boats
Philippines
Weaknesses of Axis powers
Strengths of Allies
The Big Three
“Second Front” and its tensions
Operation Torch
Coral Sea
Midway
Stalingrad
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Life of GI’s
African Americans at war
Mexican-Americans & Asian Americans at war
Homosexuals
Women at war
War Production Board
Office of War Mobilization
West coast war industries
Science and war
Radar and sonar
Penicillin
Plasma
Atomic research / Manhattan Project
War bonds
Taxation
War Labor Board
Unions / Strikes
Movement of the U.S. population during the war
Women workers / Rosie the Riveter
Limits of women’s advances
Issei
Nisei
Executive Order 9066
Internment camps
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Asa Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Bracero program
Detroit riots
Zoot suiters
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
New Deal’s “retreat”
Election of 1944
Harry S. Truman’s replacement of Wallace as V.P.
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Conferences
Tehran
Yalta
Poland
Germany’s division
Roosevelt’s death
Churchill’s loss
Holocaust
U.S. lack of response
Breckinridge Long and State Department
Anti-Semitism
Henry Morgenthau
Bretton Woods
Dumbarton Oaks
United Nations
Potsdam Summit
Nuclear arms race
The bomb and Soviet Diplomacy
Harry S. Truman’s decision
Hiroshima (uranium)
Nagasaki (plutonium)
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