Objective:
1. Identify the types of governments that took power in Russia, Italy, Germany, and Japan after WWI.
2. Describe the details of America's policy of isolationism.
3. Summarize the events that brought the United States into armed conflict with Germany.
4. Describe the American response to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
5.Describe the economic and social changes that reshaped American life during WWII.
6. Summarize both the opportunities and the discrimination African Americans and other minorities experienced during the war.
Unit Themes:
- The Second World War
- The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
- Prelude to war: policy of neutrality
- The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war
- Fighting a multifront war
- Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences
- The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age
- The Home Front During the War
- Wartime mobilization of the economy
- Urban migration and demographic changes
- Women, work, and family during the war
- Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime
- War and regional development
- Expansion of government power
Links
Interactive WWII Map
Remembering Pearl Harbor Interactive Map
The War - Ken Burns