Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 12 Study Guide

Unit 12 — Diplomacy and War, 1920-1945

Facts to Know

Chapter 26 — Foreign Relations in a Boken World, 1920-1941

1. Explain the ideas of independent internationalism and isolationism, and discuss how these ideas were
   manifested in the various attempts by American citizens and the American government to create a stable
   international order during the interwar years.
   2.Examine and discuss the objectives and consequences of the foreign economic policy of the United States from
   1918 to 1941.
   3.Discuss the impact of the Great Depression on international relations, and explain Secretary of State Cordell
   Hull's response to intensified economic nationalism.
   4.Examine and evaluate the interests, methods, and results of United States policy toward Latin America during
   the 1920s and 1930s.
   5.Explain Europe's descent into the Second World War.
   6.Explain the nature and growth of isolationist sentiment in the United States, and discuss the Neutrality Acts as
   an expression of such sentiment.
   7.Discuss the foreign-policy ideas and diplomatic leadership of President Franklin Roosevelt from 1933 to United
   States entry into the Second World War.
   8.Examine the erosion of American neutrality toward the war in Europe between September 1939 and December 7,
   1941.
   9.Examine the deterioration of Japanese-American relations from the 1920s to the Japanese attack against Pearl
   Harbor, and discuss American entry into the Pacific theater of the Second World War.
   

Chapter 27— The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

1. Describe the military strategy and the major military operations undertaken by the Allies in the European theater;
   discuss the disagreements that arose concerning strategy; and explain the resolution of these disagreements.
   2.Discuss United States military strategy and the major military operations in the Pacific theater that brought
   America to the verge of victory by 1945.
   3.Explain and evaluate President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb.
   4.Examine the impact of the Second World War on America's economic institutions, organized labor, agriculture,
   and the federal government, and discuss and assess the role played by the federal government in the war effort.
   5.Discuss the impact of military life and wartime experiences on the men and women in the United States armed
   forces during the Second World War.
   6.Examine and evaluate the civil liberties record of the United States government during the Second World War,
   and discuss the government's response to the Holocaust and to the plight of Jewish refugees.
   7.Discuss the impact of the Second World War on African Americans, Mexican Americans, women, and the
   family.
   8.Discuss the decline of political liberalism during the early 1940s, and examine the issues and personalities and
   explain the outcome of the 1944 presidential election
   9.Examine the relations, the issues debated, and the agreements reached among the Allies from the second-front
   controversy through the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, and discuss the issues left unresolved after Yalta and
   Potsdam.
   10.Assess the impact of the Second World War on the world community of nations and on the world balance of
   power.
   

Quizzes

• Textbook Quiz — chapter 26     chapter 27  
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • Diplomacy in the Inter-War Years  A   B
  • World War II  A    B    C   

Documents

• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
• World War II Homefront (1942)
• Effects of the Atomic Bomb (1945)

Study Aids

• Mrs. Ruland's Notes
  • League of Nations
  • Notes on Fascism
  • Lindbergh and Roosevelt
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter Ten: The New Deal and World War
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Modules on Major Topics
  • World War II
• Digital History
  • Guided Readings
    • America at War: World War II
  • Explorations
    • Learn About World War II
  • Lesson
  • World War II
  • The Atomic Bomb
  • Timeline
    • Landmarks in Immigration History
• Professor Stanley K. Schultz' lecture notes (University of Wisconsin)
  • Dr. New Deal or Dr. Win-the-War
  • World War II: The Home Front
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History IV
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History V
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • World War II
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • The Twenties, Depression and World War II
• Timeline- 1901 to 1950 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • American Foreign Policy Between the World Wars - outline
  • American Involvement in World War II - chart
  • The Home Front During World War II - outline
  • World War II Conferences and Treaties - chart
• Presidential Election Data (David Leip) — 1920    1924    1928    1932    1936     1940     1944 
• Cram Sheet (Renata Melamud)
  • Harding through Truman
• Crossroads
  • "The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt" 1933-1945
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • The American Jewish Experience: Antisemitism and Assimilation
  • The Rise of Fundamentalism
  • Roman Catholics and the American Mainstream in the 20th Century

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