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APUSH-The American Pageant Chapter 34: American In World War II 1941-1945 Focus Questions: 1.Give specific examples of how America was transformed from a peacetime to a wartime economy? What were the steps that America took to mobilize for their war with the Axis Powers? 2. Specifically-what was the impact of the war on domestic America? How was America’s domestic response to World War II different from its reaction to World War I? 3. What was America’s strategy for winning the war against the Axis Powers? 4. How did World War II end and what were the terms of settlement? 5. What role did women play during the war? *READ VARYING VIEWPOINTS AND YOU MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: a. b. c. Assess the validity of the claim that the dropping of the bombs on Japan was not so much an attempt to end the war against the Japanese, as it was “the first salvos in the emerging Cold War.” What does each of these historians see as American officials’ thinking about the relationship between the bomb and the ending of the war against Japan? What does each regard as the primary reason for the use of the bomb? What conclusions might be drawn from each of these views about the political and moral justifications for dropping the bomb? Could the use of the atomic bombs have been avoided? NEED TO KNOW TERMS FOR HISTORICAL LITERACY: Rosie The Riveter Executive Order 9066 War Production Board Office of Price Administration National War Labor Board Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act WACs (Women’s Army Corps) WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) SPARs (U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve) Bracero Program Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE-James Farmer) Navajo Code Talkers D-Day/Invasion of Normandy V-E (Victory in Europe Day)/V-J (Victory in Japan Day) Yalta Conference/Potsdam Conference Manhattan Project The Big Three (FDR, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill) Asa Philip Randolph/Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters