ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND
After reading the chapter, you should be able to discuss the following:
1. Causes of the outbreak of war in Europe
2. The debate between isolationists and interventionists over the role the United States should play
3. Why the United States abandoned isolationism in favor of aiding Hitler's opponents
4. The controversy between the United States and Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor
5. How the U.S. government mobilized the economy, financed the war, and dealt with inflation
6. The effects of World War II on business, labor, and the economy
7. What the Manhattan Project was and why it was started
8. Domestic politics durjng World War II
9. The effects of World War II on American education, entertainment, women, and families
10. The effects of World War II on African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, and Japanese-Americans
11. U.S. treatment of Jewish refugees
12. Major strategy and campaigns in the European and Asian wars
VOCABULARY
blitzkrieg
executive agreement
convoy
bellicose
embargo
Chicano
braceros
acculturation
Holocaust
genocide
Schindler’s List
IDENTIFICATIONS
After reading Chapter 27, you should be able to identify and
explain the historical significance of each of the following:
Battle of Britain
Henry L. Stimson
Henry Wallace
Wendell L. Willkie
isolationists and the America First Committee versus the
interventionists
lend-lease
Atlantic Charter
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Open Door Policy
Tripartite Pact
Hideki Tojo
Office of Price Administration
James Byrnes and the Office of War Mobilization
Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act
Manhattan Project and Robert Oppenheimer
GI Bill of Rights
Rosie the Riveter
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement
Executive Order 8882and the Fair Employment Practices Committee
Los Angeles zoot-suit riot
Kormatsu v. United States (1944)
The Second Front
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Torch
Operation Overlord
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) versus Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
Tehran and Yalta conferences
Potsdam Conference and Potsdam Declaration
SKILL BUILDING: MAPS
On the accompanying map of Europe, locate and explain the military and/or political significance of each of the following:
Warsaw and Lublin, Poland
areas overrun by the German offensive between April and June 1940
(Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
English Channel
Dunkirk
Iceland
Areas of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union held by the Germans
as of spring 1942
Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad
Crimean Peninsula (Yalta)
Caucasus Mountains
North African campaign (Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Suez Canal,
Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Allied landing areas)
Sicily
Casablanca
Cairo
Rome
Eastern European countries occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944-1945
(Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia)
Tehran, Iran
Normandy
Paris
Ardennes Forest (Battle of the Bulge)
Rhine River
Berlin
Vienna
Elbe River
On the accompanying map of the Far Eastern theater of war, 1941-1945, locate and explain the military and/or political importance of each of the following:
Areas attacked and/or occupied by Japan before or on December 7,
1941 (Manchuria,parts of China, Indochina, Thailand, Pearl Harbor)
Dutch East Indies
Burma and the Burma Road
Malaya
Philippines (Manila)
Java
Guam
Wake
Gilbert Islands
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal) j
Marshall Islands
Mariana Islands
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
