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:

    1. Compare and contrast America's domestic response to World War II to its reaction to World War I.
    2. Analyze what factors led to an increase in prosperity during World War II.