Homework Sheet Unit 14: World War II
Unit Question: WAS WWII THE LAST GREAT WAR?
Date
Class Activities
Homework Due In Class Today
 American Policy: Isolationism and
Appeasement
Mon
 The War begins in Europe …and America
3/17
 How did America get into WWII? – Concept
Map
 Receive Spring Break Assignment
Tues
3/18
Block
 America’s Homefront During WWII
 A Day Which Will Live in Infamy
 Japanese American Internment
 Mobilization
 Rosie the Riveter
 War in the Pacific
 Bataan
 Island Hopping
3/193/20
Friday
3/31
Tues
 D-Day and the Allied re-invasion of Europe
 The End of the War
 VE Day
 Holocaust
 VJ Day
4/2-4/3

Document 1 -4
 Chapter 38 Part 1: 847-859
 Documents 5-8
 Chapter 38 Part 2: 860-865
 Chapter 38 Part 3: 866-869
 Document 9
 Chapter 38 Part 4: 869-876
 Document 10
 TEST
 Unit 14 Notebook Due
 In-class Great Depression DBQ
 Bring a notebook and black pen…
4/1
Block
Chapter 37 ALL
 War in Europe
3/21
Mon
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Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
PLAN AHEAD FOR READING DURING WEEK #1
Unit 14: WW2
Content Covered
America’s Pre-War Foreign Policy:
Early FDR Foreign Policy Subordinated to Domestic Concerns; Isolationism; Good Neighbor
Policy; Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; Neutrality; Spanish Civil War; Appeasement; The
Destroyer Deal; Lend-Lease; The Atlantic Charter
War:
Spread of Totalitarian Regimes; Hitler’s Rise in Power and the Spread of Germany; Fall of
France; U-Boat Attack of US Ships; Pearl Harbor – causes and effects; America enters the war;
Germany First Strategy; European Front; Pacific Front; Weapon Development; The Holocaust;
Fall of Berlin; Fall of Japan – Atomic Bomb
Politics:
FDR runs for a 3rd term; Then a 4th Term!
Homefront:
Japanese American Internment; Building the War Machine; Manpower and Womanpower;
Wartime Migrations; Total War; Manhattan Project
Primary Reading
 American Pageant: Chapters 37-38
Secondary Reading
Foreign Policy:
1. The Intervention Issue (1940-1941) – Documents 38-B-1,2, &3 TAS V2 (356-360)
2. FDR Drops the Dollar Sign (1940) [Lend Lease] – Document 38-C-1 TAS V2 (360-362)
3. FDR Proclaims Shoot-at-Sight (1941) – Document 38-D-3 TAS V2 (367-368)
4. Blowup in the Pacific – Documents 38-E-1,2,&3 TAS V2 (368-373)
Homefront:
5. The War Transforms the Economy (1943) – Document 39-A-1 TAS V2 (374-377)
6. Memories of the Internment Camp: Ben Yorita and Philip Hayasaka – Section 28 AF V2
7. Rosie the Riveter: Fannie Christina Hill – Section 27 AF V2
8. A Woman Remembers the War (1984) – Document 39-A-4 TAS V2 (383-385)
War:
9. Ernie Pyle: Street Fighting (1944) – Document 25-11 DAAH V2
10. Dropping the Atomic Bomb (1945) – Document 39-E-1,2,&3 TAS V2 (397-401)
Chapter 37: FDR and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941
1. Cordell Hull
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Winston Churchill
6. Reciprocal trade Agreements Act
7. totalitarianism
8. isolationism
9. London Economic Conference
10. Good Neighbor policy
11. Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
12. Nazi party
13. Rome-Berlin axis
14. “merchants of death”
15. Nye committee
16. Neutrality Acts
17. Spanish Civil War
18. “Quarantine” speech
19. Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact
20. “cash and carry”
21. “phony war”
22. Committee to Defend America by Aiding
the Allies
23. America First Committee
24. lend-lease
25. Atlantic Charter
Chapter Questions (Pay attention to the date ranges given for each question!)
1. Was FDR’s "Good Neighbor" policy a radical departure from past Latin American policies? What
future problems did it pose for the United States in the region?
2. To what extent did Roosevelt change the U. S. approach to international debt and currency issues?
3. Why were Americans supporting a neutral position in the 1930s regarding the growing political and
military tensions in Europe?
4. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria in 1931? What was the US’s response to this attack? The
world’s? How did this affect US-Japanese Relations?
5. How did Roosevelt manage to get aid to Great Britain in 1939 and 1940 despite the limitations
imposed by the Neutrality Acts? What changes in American public opinion coincided with the
worsening situation for France and Britain?
6. Describe the progression from the Neutrality Acts to Cash and Carry and the Destroyer Deals to
Lend Lease. Include both the American government’s and people’s changing opinions.
7. What was the shape of our military readiness at the outbreak of war in Europe in the fall of 1939?
What did President Roosevelt and Congress do to enhance our potential military capabilities?
8. How did the US enter into an undeclared shooting war with Germany in the fall of 1941?
9. Why was oil a major source of conflict between the US and Japan in the early 1940s? What other
areas of disagreement existed between the two nations in the fall of 1941?
10. Why were we caught so off guard at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941?
11. What problems did the Japanese attack solve for FDR?
12. Why could the attack on Pearl Harbor be considered a tactical victory but a political blunder by the
Japanese? How have historians treated this issue?
Chapter 38: America in World War II, 1941-1945
1. A. Philip Randolph
2. General Douglas MacArthur
3. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
4. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. Joseph Stalin
6. General George S. Patton
7. Thomas E. Dewey
8. Harry S. Truman
9. Albert Einstein
10. War Production Board
11. Office of Price Administration
12. War Labor Board
13. Smith-Connally Act
14. Bracero Program
15. Fair Employment Practices Commission
16. Casablanca Conference
17. Teheran Conference
18. D-Day
19. V-E Day
20. Potsdam Conference
21. V-J Day
22. “Double V” campaign
23. “Island hopping”
24. Rosie the Riveter
25. Zoot suit
26. Korematsu v. US
Chapter Questions
1. How did the demographics of America change during WWII? Why?
2. What impact did the war have on organized labor?
3. What efforts did the national government make to regulate production, labor, and prices during the war?
How successful were they?
4. Describe Total War and how WWII embodied Total War. What was the importance of those on the
Homefront during the war?
5. Describe popular culture on the home front. What efforts were made to make life less disruptive for the
service members themselves?
6. How were the women who filled war jobs on the Homefront treated? What obstacles did they face?
What long-term consequences for the role of women in society and the work force were foreshadowed
by the wartime experience?
7. How did World War II challenge traditional Indian life and redirect federal Indian policy?
8. Describe the demographic and social changes for African Americans and Mexican Americans during
World War II.
9. Explain the justification for and the circumstances surrounding the internment by the US government of
Japanese Americans during World War II. Why did Japanese Americans suffer more than German
Americans? How did their treatment contrast with Chinese Americans?
10. Why did the US fight a war for democracy with a segregated military? How did African-Americans,
Japanese Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities distinguish themselves during World War
II? Describe the Double V philosophy.
11. Describe the differences between the 3 fronts in WWII. (Western, Eastern, Pacific)
12. What role did US colleges and universities play in the war effort? How was the "Manhattan Project" an
example of this symbiotic relationship between the military and academic worlds? How did scientific
and technological advances help the Allies win the war? What were the peacetime implications of these
developments?
13. Describe the roles women filled in the military during WWII.
14. Describe the nature of Allied bombing raids over Germany and Japan between 1944 and 1945.
15. Why were the Allies finally able to win the war in Europe?
16. What was the world’s response when they learned about the Holocaust? Why didn’t the American
military try to stop it before the end of the world even though the US government knew about it?
17. Identify the candidates, the issues, and the outcome of the 1944 presidential election. Why did FDR
change running mates?
18. Describe the meetings and conferences between the leaders of the Allies and how they would affect the
war. Why would they be important after the war?
19. What were the pros and cons concerning the dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities in August,
1945?
20. The principal biographers of President Truman and many other historians contend that the President's
decision to use the atomic bomb was based purely on the motivation to end the war quickly and save
lives. Why do some historians dispute that view?