World War Ii

1933-1945

UNIT III: APUSH

(1.5 weeks--only 2 units left)

Essential Questions (EQ)

When should a nation get involved in the affairs of others?

Should civilians be protected in a time of war?

Reading Assignments

Date --reading completed by

American History, Chapter 27

American History, Chapter 28

Free Response Questions-- Outlines--(Both will be collected)

1. Compare Japanese Expansion in Asia (Korea and China) with American expansion in Asia and the Pacific (Hawaii and the Philippines) at the end of the 19^th century. Were they similar? (This requires you to review the last unit of the first semester.)

2. In what ways did the United Statesπ involvement in WWII affect life on the home front? Discuss economic issues, the effects on minorities (African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and Japanese-Americans), and women.

Major Assignments/Projects and Assessment (There will also be minor homework assignments and quizzes that are not mentioned on this sheet.)

Date to be completed

Unit Outlines

Unit 13 Exam Multiple Choice

Debate 1

Debate 2

Unit DBQ

Study terms for American History

Identify/Define and state the historical significance of (or just answer the questions):

27 The Global Crisis, 1921-1941

Henry Cabot Lodgeπs foreign policy ≥master of her won fate≤

Why did the US negotiate separate treaties after WWI?

Washington Conference 1921

Five Power Pact 1922

Nine-Power Pact

Four-power pact

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Explain the Dawes Plan and circular loans

How did the American loans and investments affect European countries?

What effect did high us tariffs have on debt payments on the part of Europeans?

Explain American influences in Latin America in the 1920s

What was Hooverπs policy in Latin America? How did he change past practices?

What caused the failure of the Worldπs disarmament Conference at Geneva in 1932?

How did the US respond to the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria in 1923?

What was the London Conference of 1933? What ≥bombshell≤ did Roosevelt drop?

How did Roosevelt end the European payment of debts to the US?

What were the results of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement of 1934

How did US-Soviet relations change in 1933? What influenced the US govπt to change its stance initially?

Explain Rooseveltπs Good Neighbor policy in LA.

What were the sources of American isolationism in the 1930s?

Nye Report

What were the basic purposes and provisions of the Neutrality Acts of 1935,36 and 1937?

What did Italy do in 1935 and how did most Americans respond?

Franco and the Falangists (nationalists) in 1937? How did the US , Britain and France Respond?

How did Roosevelt respond to the Japanese invasion of China in 1937?

Quarantine Speech of 1937 and public response

Panay incident of 1937 and isolationist response

Hitlerπs aggressive moves: Rhineland 1936; anschluss) 1938

Munich conference

Failure of appeasement

Non-aggression pact

Invasion of Poland and rooseveltπs response

Rooseveltπs request for revision of neutrality acts and Neutrality Act of 1939

Phony war

How did Roosevelt circumvent the Neutrality Actπs cash and carry provisions?

What developments in the spring and summer of 1940 caused a shift in American public opinion? What policy actions resulted?

Burke-Wadsworth Act: peace time draft

Fight for freedom committee v. American first committee

Election of 1936. How was Wendell Wilkie different than previous Republican candidates? What was his difficulty? What did both candidates say about the USπs role in the war?

How did the idea of lend-lease work?

≥hemispheric defense≤?

How did Roosevelt move to help the Soviets after June of 1941?

At what point had the US launched a naval war against Germany? How?

Atlantic Charter

Tripartite pact

What Japanese aggressions in Asia brought Japan and the US into conflict?

What were the results of the attack on Pearl Harbor? (military and politically)

Chapter 28 America in a World At War

Was America unified at the onset of war?

What was the strategy for defeating Japan? Two approaches

Battle of Coral Sea

Midway

Guadalcanal

What were the two plans for defeating Germany? Which did Roosevelt go with?

Summarize the events and accomplishments of the North African offensive.

George C. Marshall. What did he want to do?

Summarize the events and accomplishments of the Italian offensive

How did the US respond to news of the Holocaust?

What options were proposed for helping victims in camps,etc?

Why did the US not do more to save the Jews?

Assistance Sec. Breckinridge Long

St. Louis

How did the war affect the economy? The budget?

What impact did the war have on the West?

Henry Kaiser

How did the war affect employment?

How did unions do during the war? Increased numbers? What agreements were made?

Smith-Connally Act (War labor disputes Act) 1943

Anti-Inflation Act

Office of Price administration (was it effective?)

Increase in federal deficit

How did the govπt finance the war?

Revenue Act 1942 (what did it do?)

Attempts at organizing war mobilization

War Production Board( purpose and weaknesses)

Office or War Mobilization

Advances in tech (radar and sonar)

Gee system

Code breakers: ultra and enigma and magic and purple (know the general info onlyãdonπt get too detailed here)

Fair Employment Practices Commission

Describe the migration of blacks during the war? Where? Why? What tensions resulted?

Congress of Racial Equality (goals; achievements?)

What roles did blacks serve in the armed forces? What changes toward integration were made?

How did Native Americans serve in the war effort?

How did the war affect native Americans at home? What impact did it have on federal policy? The Indian Reorganization Act?

How did Americaπs view of Mexican immigrants change from the 1930s to 1940s? still deported?

Braceros

Describe the migration patterns of Mexicans.

Zoot-suit riotsãcauses, results

Describe the treatment of women who filled war-time jobs. What difficulties did they face?

Increase in female employment

Rosie the riveter

What types of jobs did most women take?

Increase in juvenile crime rates

What long-term consequences for the role of women in society and the workforce were foreshadowed by the wartime experience?

Limited child care

Baby boom begins

Describe the economic good times

Fighting for prosperity at home

Image of the ideal woman who supported the war effort (Grable, USO, etc.)

Warπs effect on colleges

Contrast WWII with WWI in terms of violation of civil liberties, etc.

Blurring of ethnic distinctions and the glaring exception

Number of Japanese-americans; their components.

Prejudice towards to Japanese-Americans and Earl Warrenπs opinion

Public v. government sentiment. Impetus for ≥taking action≤

War Relocation Authority

What type of opposition was there?

Korematsu v. US

Loss of property; eventual reparations.

Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts

Decline in racial animosity

Proportion of Chinese Americans drafted

How did the war help to dismantle the New Deal (congress)?

Overview of election of 1944 and Rooseveltπs new vp

What was significant about the Allied bombings at Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin? What was the intent? The result?

d-day

Liberation of France

Battle of the Bulge

What was the result of the Americans waiting at the Elbe River in Germany?

VE Day

Joseph tillwell and the Burma road; problem with Chiang

Battle of Leyte Gulf (why significant?

Iwo Jima

Okinawa. What did it reveal about Japanese desperation?

Firebombing of Tokyo

Internal conflicts within Japanπs leadership

What events led to the development of the atomic bomb? What motivated the Americans get a move on?

Enrico Fermi

Manhattan Project

Trinity Bomb

Trumanπs ultimatum, Japanese response, and final decision

Arguments for and against the bomb (which will be flushed out in our debate) Soviet issue

Enola gay and Hiroshima

Nagasaki

V-J Day

Total number of deaths in WWII, etc. (world and US)