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AP - Chapter 25-26 Study Guide
The Global Crisis and World War II
KEY TERMS
MUST KNOW:
isolationism
interventionism
fascism
totalitarianism
Nazi Germany
Pearl Harbor
World War II
Axis Powers
Allies
militarism
Japanese atrocities
concentration camps
Holocaust
mobilization
racial segregation
civil liberties
Japanese Internment
“Island-Hopping”
D-Day invasion
Atomic bombs
ADDITIONAL TERMS:
Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Circular Loans (Dawes Plan)
Manchuria invasion
FDR’s “Bombshell”
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
The Good Neighbor Policy
Inter-American Conference
Neutrality Acts
“Quarantine Speech”
Munich Conference “Appeasement”
Cash-and-Carry Policy
America First Committee
Wendell Wilkie
Lend-Lease Policy
Atlantic Charter
Tripartite Pact
Battle of Midway
Guadalcanal
Stalingrad
St. Louis
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
War Production Board
National Defense Research Committee
Radar & Sonar, ULTRA & MAGIC
“Double V” Campaign
A. Philip Randolph
FEPC
CORE
“Code-Talkers”
braceros
Zoot-Suit Riots
“Rosie the Riveter”
“government girls”
WACs and WAVEs
“latchkey children”
“Baby Boom”
Life Magazine
USO
“Relocation Centers” WRA
Korematsu v. United States
repeal of Chinese Exclusion
1944 Election
“Strategic Bombing”
Battle of the Bulge
Leyte Gulf
Okinawa
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Trinity
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
VE-Day & VJ Day
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
 What were the key foreign policy decisions including international investment, peace treaties, and
military intervention during the 1920s and early 1930s?
 To what extent was the U.S. isolationist in the 1920s and 1930s?
 Why did most Americans oppose military action in the 1930s despite the rise of fascism,
totalitarianism and acts of aggression by Nazi Germany and Japan?
 What effect did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor have on the United States?
 To what extent was World War II a fight for the survival of freedom and democracy against fascist
and militaristic ideologies and revelations about Japanese wartime atrocities, Nazi concentration
camps, and the Holocaust?
 What effect did World War II mass mobilization have on the U.S. economy and the lingering effects
of the Great Depression?
 How did the U.S. industrial base play a pivotal role in helping the Allies win World War II?
 What social effects did World War II have on women and minorities?
 How did World War II lead to debates over racial segregation and challenges to civil liberties?
 How did Allied cooperation, technological and scientific advances, the contributions of servicemen
and women, and strategies such as Pacific “island hopping” and the D-Day invasion lead to defeat of
the Axis powers?
 How did the use of atomic bombs both contribute to the end of the war and spark debates over the
morality of atomic weapons?
 How did the United States emerge from the war as the most powerful nation on the globe?