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AUHSD Alternative Education Assignment Guide Benchmark 7 2640 U. S. History SEM 2 Name ___________________________________________________ Period # ____ 11.7.5 11.8.5 Date ___________ Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler's atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans. Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Directions: Use the textbook to answer the questions below. Many of these questions are directly correlated with the benchmark test that you must pass to receive your credits. Page 488: Chapter 15 section 1 Title: _____________________________________________________ Main Idea: __________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________. Why it Matters Now: __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 493: How does the cartoon portray Franklin Roosevelt’s view of his power as president? ________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________. Page 542: Chapter 16 section 3 Title: ______________________________________ Main Idea: _________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________. Why it Matters Now: _____________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 543: Analyzing Issues: What problem did German Jews face in Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1938? ____________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________. Page 544: How did the United States respond to the Jewish refugees? _____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________. Page 544: What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis? ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________. Page 542-545: Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust? _______________. Page 547: What was the goal of the Nazi’s Final Solution, and how was that goal nearly achieved? ______ ______________________________________________________________________________________. 2640 US History 11 (2) Assignemnt Guide - Benchmark 7 1 of 5 Chapter 16 section 3 Guided Reading worksheet “The Holocaust” see Teacher Chapter 16 Section 3 American Lives: Elie Wiesel - see Teacher Page 562: Chapter 17 Section 1 Title: ____________________________________________________ Main Idea: __________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________. Why it Matters Now: ________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 563: During the war, women in the WAACs served as: ____________________________________ _______________________. Page 565: Forming Generalizations: What difficulties did women face in the wartime workforce? ___________________________________________________________________ . Page 565 (Labor’s Contribution): World War II affected people across the United States by creating more jobs than there were ____________________, leading to a labor shortage. Chapter 17 section 1 Guided Reading worksheet “Mobilization on the Home Front” - see Teacher Chapter 17 Section 1 Primary Sources: “Farewell to Manzanar” - see Teacher Page 589, 567 & 623: World War II sparked many technological developments. After the war, the world was changed the most by: _________________________________________________. Page 578: Chapter 17 Section 3 Title: _________________________________________________ Main Idea: _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________. Why It Matters Now: _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________. Page 583: The U.S. military was hesitant to invade Japan in the summer of 1945 ___________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 584: Students need notes from teacher on “The Firebombing of Tokyo” from the margin of the Teacher’s Edition: What happened on the mainland of Japan before the atomic bomb was dropped? ____ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________. Page 585 (Point-Counterpoint): What were President Truman’s two main objectives in deciding to drop the atomic bomb: _________________________________________________________________________. People who argued against using the atomic bomb maintained that _______________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. 2640 US History 11 (2) Assignemnt Guide - Benchmark 7 2 of 5 Page 584: The results of dropping atomic bombs on Japan were that _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 586, 604-(Potsdam Conference): Stalin did not keep the promises he had made to Roosevelt and Churchill before the end of World War II. One of these promises was to: _________________________ _____________________________________________. Page 586: What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials? _____________________________________ _____________________________________________________. Page 590: Chapter 17 Section 4 Title: ______________________________________ Main Idea: ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________. Why It Matters Now: __________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 594-95: Nisei who lived on the West Coast were subjected to ___________________ during the war. Page 595: The Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944) led to _________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________. Page 602: Chapter 18 Section 1 Title: ________________________________________________ Main Idea: ________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________. Why It Matters Now: __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 606-607: After World War II, the Marshall Plan _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 606: Following World War II, the United States took over from Great Britain the job of giving financial aid to Turkey and Greece because: _________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 606: Skillbuilder/Interpreting Graphs: Which two countries received the most aid? _____________ ________________________________. Why do you think these two countries received the most aid? __ _____________________________________________________________________________________. 2640 US History 11 (2) Assignemnt Guide - Benchmark 7 3 of 5 Chapter 18 section 1 Guided Reading worksheet “Origins of the The Cold War” - see Teacher Chapter 18 Section 1 Skillbuilder Practice: “U.S. and Soviet War Experiences” - see Teacher Page 634: Chapter 19 Section 1 Title: _______________________________________ Main Idea: __________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Why It Matters Now: _________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 636: How did the Marshall Plan help the United States’ economy? __________________________ ______________________________________________________________. Page 637: Summarizing: What action did President Truman take that displayed an expansion of presidential power in dealing with labor strikes? _______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________. Chapter 19 section 1 Guided Reading worksheet “Postwar America” - see Teacher Chapter 19, Section 1 Primary Sources: Cartoon - see Teacher Page 641: Chapter 19 Section 2 Title: _________________________________________________ Main Idea: _______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________. Why It Matters Now: ___________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 644: Advancements in medicine led to the elimination of what two diseases during the 1950’s? ______ ______________________________. Page 646: Analyzing Causes: What are the two main reasons why auto sales surged in the 1950’s? _____ __________________________________________________________________________________. Page 646: List three things that resulted from the construction of the nationwide highway? ___________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 648: In the 1950’s as the middle class doubled in size, more people spent money on material goods than ever before thus leading to _____________________________ as an American way of life. 2640 US History 11 (2) Assignemnt Guide - Benchmark 7 4 of 5 Chapter 19 section 2 Guided Reading worksheet “The American Dream in the Fifties” - see Teacher Page 652: Chapter 19 Section 3 Title: _______________________________________ Main Idea: ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________. Why It Matters Now: ___________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________. Page 653: Analyzing Effects: How did the emergence of television affect American culture in the 1950’s? ______________________________________________________________________________________. Page 654: Evaluating: Do you think the rise of television had a positive or negative effect on Americans? Explain. _______________________________________________________________________________. Page 655: Analyzing Causes: Why do you think many young Americans were attracted to the beat movement? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________. Page 656: Making Inferences: Based on Elvis Presley’s song titles, what do you think were teenagers’ concerns in the 1950’s? _________________________________________________________________. Chapter 19 section 3 Guided Reading worksheet “Popular Culture” - see Teacher Page 662: In 1942, to try and solve an agricultural labor shortage the U.S. government introduced: ______ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________. Page 880: One hoped-for benefit of genetic engineering is the ability to ___________________________ _____________________________________. Revised September 20th, 2006 2640 US History 11 (2) Assignemnt Guide - Benchmark 7 5 of 5