CHAPTER 26 – America in a World at War

1. WAR ON TWO FRONTS

a. Containing the Japanese

b. Holding Off the Germans

c. America and the Holocaust

2. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN WARTIME

a. Prosperity

b. The War and the West

c. Labor and the War

d. Stabilizing the Boom

e. Mobilizing Production

f. Wartime Science and Technology

g. African Americans and the War

h. Native Americans and the War

i. Mexican American War Workers

j. Women and Children at War

k. Wartime Life and Culture

l. The Internment of Japanese Americans

m. Chinese Americans and the War

n. The Retreat from Reform

3. THE DEFEAT OF THE AXIS

a. The Liberation of France

b. The Pacific Offense

c. The Manhattan Project

d. Atomic Warfare

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• World War II
• Axis Powers
• New Deal
• neutrality
• isolationism
• Pearl Harbor
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• A. Philip Randolph
• Battle of Bulge
• braceros
• Colossus II
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• D-Day
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Enola Gay
• Enrico Fermi
• Guadalcanal
• Harry Truman
• Hiroshima
• Atlantic Charter
• Holocaust
• Korematsu v U.S.
• Manhattan Project
• Midway
• Office of Price Administration (OPA)
• Okinawa
• relocation centers
• Rosie the Riveter
• Vichy
• zoot suits
• Manhattan Project
• sonar

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