Download APUSH-The American Pageant Chapter 34: American In World War

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:
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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