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Reading: AMSCO, pp. 518-525
I. Key Terms
1. Stimson Doctrine
2. Good Neighbor Policy
3. fascism
4. Benito Mussolini
5. National Socialist Party (Nazi Party)
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Neutrality Acts
8. America First Committee
9. Munich Conference (1938)
II. Reading Questions
1. What aggressive actions did Japan take in the early 1930s? How did the League
of Nations and the United States deal with this early Japanese expansionism?
2. What ideas and developments increased Americans’ desire for isolationism in the
first half of the 1930s?
3. How did European nations respond to the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany?
Why do you think they responded this way?
4. How did President Roosevelt's response to the Japanese invasion of China
illustrate the political strength of isolationist sentiment in the US?
Reading: AMSCO, pp. 525-529
I. Key Terms
1. blitzkrieg
2. Cash-and-Carry system
3. Selective Training and Service Act (1940)
4. Lend-Lease Act
5. Atlantic Charter
II. Reading Questions
1. What German moves and diplomatic failures led to the start of World War II in
Europe?
2. How did Roosevelt manage to aid Great Britain in 1939 and 1940 in various ways
without officially joining the war?
3. How/why did tensions between Japan and the U.S. increase between 1940 and
1941?
4. Could the U.S. have avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor? What were the
consequences of this attack?
Reading: AMSCO, pp. 532-535
I. Key Terms
1. Dwight Eisenhower
2. D-Day
3. “island-hopping”
4. Manhattan Project
5. Yalta Conference
6. Potsdam Conference
II. Reading Questions
1. What were the two “theaters of operation” in which the fighting of World War II
took place?
2. Why did the United States drop atomic bombs on Japan rather than attack Japan
with soldiers? Do you think the U.S. made the right decision in using the atomic
bombs? Explain
I. Map Labeling
1. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
2. Allied Powers: Great Britain, Russia, France
3. Poland
4. Austria
5. Czechoslovakia
6. North Africa
7. Midway Island
8. Guadalcanal
9. Iwo Jima
10. Okinawa
Reading: Brinkley, pp. 748-756
I. Key Terms
1. Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
2. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
3. “code-talkers”
4. Zoot-suit riots
5. “Rosie the Riveter”
6. War Relocation Authority (WRA)
7. Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
II. Reading Questions
1. Describe the wartime migration and employment of African Americans. Did the
war create any new problems for African Americans? Explain.
2. Describe the roles of blacks in the military. What tensions resulted?
3. How were the women who filled war jobs treated? What obstacles did they face?
4. How were Japanese Americans treated during the war? What was done to
compensate for this treatment?
5. What did President Roosevelt mean by the shift from "Dr. New Deal" to "Dr.
Win-the-War"? How did the war “dismantle many of the achievements of the
New Deal?”