Chapter 28 – American in World War II
- What position did FDR take initially regarding the conflict in Europe and Asia?
- How did most Americans react to the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Why?
- Why did the Axis powers declare war on the U.S. after Pearl Harbor?
- Why do historians have mixed opinions about FDR as our leader during WWII?
- How did the Great Depression affect U.S. efforts in WWII?
- How did WWII mobilize the U.S. economy? How did it affect workers? Business owners? The government?
- What social changes did America experience as a result of the war?
- How were people of color treated in the army?
- Was this better or worse than the treatment of Germans and Italians? Explain your answer thoroughly.
- How did the government justify putting Japanese-Americans in interment camps?
- How did women contribute to the war effort at home, abroad and at work?
- Why did the Allied Powers decide to go after Europe first?
- How did the U.S. contribute to the warfront in Europe? (Focus on our impact on the defeat of the Germans.)
- Why didn’t the U.S. do more to protect the Jewish people from the horrors of the Holocaust?
- How was warfare in the Pacific different from that in Europe or of previous wars?
- Why did the U.S. pursue the “island hopping” strategy? Was it effective?
- What is the “Manhattan Project?”
- Explain the controversy surrounding the Atomic bomb. What were some arguments for and against its usage?
- How did Americans feel about Stalin and the Soviets after the end of WWII?
- What is the significance of the Yalta Conference?
- Why did postwar efforts to “fix” the world after the war fall apart at the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference? (Be specific!)
Identifications
- Hitler
- Mussolini
- Churchill
- Henry Stimson
- Office of War Mobilization
- National War Labor Board
- Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act
- Zoot Suiters
- Internment camps
- Rosie the Riveter
- General Eisenhower
- “D-Day”
- Normandy
- General Patton
- Battle of the Bulge
- Concentration camps
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- General MacArthur
- Kamikazes
- Harry Truman
- Albert Einstein
- Hiroshima
- Nagasaki
- Joseph Stalin
- Declaration of United Nations
- U.N. Security Council
