Unit 12 Review
World War II
1920-1945
Ch. 37 & 38
Themes:
- Compare isolationism after World War I with leadership of the Western world after World War II.
- Compare and contrast American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s with American foreign policy in the fifteen years after World War II
- Compare and contrast the experiences of various groups - labor, African Americans, business, farmers following the First and Second World Wars
- How was WWII the rejection of world leadership, but not isolationism?
- Describe the national neutrality neurosis as a US response to aggression
- Explain with evidence the social, economic, and political CAUSES of World War II
- Explain with evidence the social, economic, and political RESULTS of World War II
- How did WWII help women and minorities receive an opportunity?
- Analyze wartime diplomacy and the formation of the United Nations
- Describe home front developments and regulations
Terms:
- Cordell Hull
- Adolf Hitler
- Charles Lindbergh
- Joseph Stalin
- Francisco Franco
- Wendell Wilkie
- Benito Mussolini
- Winston Churchill
- Reciprocal Trade Agreement
- reciprocity
- totalitarianism
- isolationism
- Nye committee
- "Cash and Carry"
- London Economic Conference
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Neutrality Act
- "phony war"
- Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact
- Spanish Civil War
- Nazi Party
- Rome/Berlin/Tokyo Axis
- "Merchants of Death"
- China incident
- "Quarantine Speech"
- America First Committee
- Atlantic Charter
- Lend-Lease
- Henry J. Kaiser
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Thomas E. Dewey
- A. Philip Randolph
- Joseph Stalin
- Harry S Truman
- Douglas MacArthur
- George S. Patton
- Albert Einstein
- Chester W. Nimitz
- braceros
- Teheran Conference
- War Production Board
- Fair Employment Practices Commission
- D Day
- Office of Price Administration
- V-E Day
- War Labor Board
- Casablanca Conference
- Smith-Connaly Act
- Second front
- V-J Day
- Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
Essay Questions:
- Compare and contrast America's domestic response to World War II to its reaction to World War I.
- Analyze what factors led to an increase in prosperity during World War II.