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UNIT 12: BECOMING A SUPERPOWER, 1937-1963
Chapter 24: The World at War, 1937-1945
The Road to War (24A)
1. fascism
I. The Rise of Fascism
A. Japan and Italy
2. Benito Mussolini
B. Hitler’s Germany
3. National Socialist (Nazi) Party
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Rome-Berlin Axis
II. War Approaches
6. Neutrality Act of 1935
7. Charles Lindbergh
A. The Popular Front
B. The Failure of Appeasement
8. Munich Conference
C. Isolationism and Internationalism
9. Committee to Defend America by
Aiding the Allies
10. America First Committee
11. Four Freedoms
12. Lend-Lease Act
13. Winston Churchill
14. Atlantic Charter
III. The Attack on Pearl Harbor
15. Hideki Tojo
16. Pearl Harbor
Organizing for Victory (24B)
17. War Powers Act
I. Financing the War
18. Revenue Act
II. Mobilizing the American Fighting Force
19. code talkers
III. Workers and the War Effort
A. Rosie the Riveter
B. Wartime Civil Rights
20. Executive Order 8802
21. Bracero Program
C. Organized Labor
IV. Politics in Wartime
22. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
(GI Bill) (1944)
23. Harry S Truman
Life on the Home Front (24C)
I. “For the Duration”
24. victory gardens
25. Office of War Information
II. Migration and the Wartime Economy
A. Racial Conflict
26. zoot suits
B. Gay and Lesbian Communities
III. Japanese Removal
27. Executive Order 9066
28. Gordon Hirabayashi
Fighting and Winning the War (24D)
I. Wartime Aims and Tensions
II. The War in Europe
29. George Patton
A. D-Day
30. Invasion of Normandy
31. Dwight Eisenhower
B. The Holocaust
III. The War in the Pacific
32. Bataan Death March
33. Battle of Midway
34. Douglas MacArthur
35. Chester Nimitz
IV. The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War
36. Manhattan Project
37. George Marshall
V. The Toll of the War
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World War II Part 1
World War II Part 2
The Cold War
The Cold War in Asia
UNIT 12: BECOMING A SUPERPOWER, 1937-1963
Chapter 25: Cold War America, 1945-1963
Containment and a Divided Global Order
(25A)
I. Origins of the Cold War
38. Joseph Stalin
A. Yalta
39. Yalta Conference
40. United Nations
B. Potsdam
41. Potsdam Conference
II. The Containment Strategy
42. George Kennan
43. containment
A. Toward an Uneasy Peace
44. Truman Doctrine
45. Marshall Plan
B. East and West in the New Europe
46. Berlin Airlift
47. collective security
48. North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
49. Warsaw Pact
C. NSC-68
50. NSC-68
51. Hydrogen bomb (1952)
III. Containment in Asia
A. Civil War in China
B. The Korean War
C. The Munich Analogy
Cold War Liberalism (25B)
I. Truman and the End of Reform
A. The 1948 Election
52. Cold War liberalism
53. Taft-Hartley Act
B. The Fair Deal
54. Fair Deal
II. Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists
A. Loyalty-Security Program
55. Loyalty-Secutiry Program
B. HUAC
56. House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC)
57. Venona Transcripts
C. McCarthyism
58. Joseph McCarthy
III. The Politics of Cold War Liberalism
A. America Under Eisenhower
59. Nikita Khrushchev
60. “New Look”
61. massive retaliation
Containment in the Postcolonial World
(25C)
I. The Cold War and Colonial Independence
A. Vietnam
62. domino theory
B. The Middle East
63. Suez Crisis
64. Eisenhower Doctrine
65. Israel
II. John F. Kennedy and the Cold War
66. John F. Kennedy
A. The Election of 1960 and the New
Frontier
B. Crises in Cuba and Berlin
67. Fidel Castro
68. Bay of Pigs
69. Cuban Missile Crisis
C. Kennedy and the World
70. Peace Corps
III. Making a Commitment in Vietnam
71. Ho Chi Minh