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APUSH Dr. I. Ibokette

Unit 10: The Interwar Years’ Diplomacy and World War II: 1919-1945

A. Foreign Policy, 1919 - 1941

B. World War II, 1939 – 1945

As usual, use the recommended “4-step” reading and note-taking process. Also, use the “looking ahead” and “recall and reflect” questions; as well as the “study questions” and key terms and names provided as guides to both the context and significance of sub-themes within the unit.

A. Foreign Policy:

Key Terms & Names: Chapter 25

1. Washington Conference 1921

2. Dawes Plan

3. Kellogg-Briand Pact

4. Benito Mussolini

5. Adolph Hitler

6. Henry Stimson

7. Cordell Hull

8. Good Neighbor Policy

9. Neutrality Acts 1935-37

10. Appeasement

11. Quarantine Speech

12. Cash-and-Carry

13. America First Committee

14. Lend-Lease Act

15. Atlantic Charter

16. Hideki Tojo

17. U.S. embargo on Japan

18. Pearl Harbor

Sub-Sections

a. Setting the Stage 709

➢ “Looking Ahead”

i. What are some of the view that Americans expressed as the world crises of the 1930s expanded?

ii. How did the econ. crisis of the worldwide Gt Dep help create new political orders in many nations?

iii. What was the sequence of events between 1939 and 1941 that brought the US into military involvement in WWII?

b. The Diplomacy of the New Era 710

c. Isolationism and Internationalism 712

d. From Neutrality to Intervention 718

e. End-of-Chapter Review 725

➢ Looking Back

➢ Significant Events

Recall and Reflect, 726

i. What diplomatic efforts and agreements of the 1920s and the 1930s attempted to deal with the increasing global political crises of the era? Why were these efforts unsuccessful?

ii. How and why did US foreign policy change during the 1920s and 1930s?

iii. How did the goals of the Neutrality Acts change over the course of the 1930s? What was the reason for the change?

iv. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

g. A timeline of seven to ten key events/developments

Study Questions

1. During the 1920s, what were the primary objectives of U.S. foreign policy? How did the United States go about achieving these objectives?

2. Describe American foreign policy objectives with Europe during the 1920s.

3. What were the weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s?

4. In what ways did the Hoover administration continue past foreign policy? In what way did it break from the past?

5. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Hoover administration’s foreign policy?

6. Why did the events surrounding World War I encourage the growth of isolationism in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s?

7. Were American isolationists in the 1920s and 1930s a recent phenomenon, or did their thinking fit into traditional American ideas regarding foreign policy? Justify your response.

8. How were the activities of other nations affected by American isolationism in the 1930s?

9. How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be labeled internationalist?

10. What steps were taken during the 1930s to reinforce the American retreat from Europe? What steps did the Roosevelt administration take to lead the United States away from isolationism?

11. Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.

12. Was war between the United States and Japan inevitable? Could it have been avoided?

B. World War II, 1939 – 1945.

Key Terms and Names: Chapter 26

1. Battle of Coral Sea

2. Battle of Midway

3. Guadalcanal

4. Midway

5. Vichy

6. Holocaust

7. St. Louis

8. economic recovery

9. Smith-Connally Act

10. Colossus II

11. Office of Price Administration/War Production Board

12. A. Philip Randolph

13. FEPC

14. Second Great Migration

15. CORE

16. Code-talkers

17. braceros program

18. Enrico Fermi

19. zoot-suit riots

20. female labor/Rosie the Riveter

21. Japanese American internment/Relocation Centers

22. Korematsu v. U.S.

23. D-Day invasion

24. Dwight Eisenhower

25. Battle of the Bulge

26. Iwo Jima and Okinawa

27. Manhattan Project

28. Harry Truman

29. Enola Gay

30. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Sub-Sections

a. Setting the Stage

➢ “Looking Ahead”

i. What was the impact of the war on the US econ?

ii. How was the US military experience in WWII different for Europe and the Pacific?

iii. How did the war affect life on the home front, especially for women, organized labor, and minorities?

b. War on Two Fronts 729

c. The American People in War Time 732

d. The Defeat of the Axis 746

e. End-of-Chapter Review 754

➢ Looking Back

➢ Significant Events

Recall and Reflect, 755

i. List some of the measures that the fed govt took to mobilize the nation’s econ for the war effort.

ii. How did advances in technology affect the course of the military conflict?

iii. How did the US contribute to the Allied victory in Europe? How important were America’s allies? Which allies were most important?

iv. How did the war affect US society: women, workers, Af. Americans, Japanese Americans, and immigrants?

v. Why did the US bomb civilians in Japan and Europe in the Last years of the War?

f. A timeline of seven to ten key events/developments

Study Questions

1. Trace the significant battles and events in the Pacific between the United States and Japan during World War II.

2. What strategic concerns and desires divided the Americans, the British, and the Soviets during World War II?

3. What were the short- and long-term consequences of the Allied decision in 1942 to engage in an African campaign against Germany?

4. What steps did the federal government take to mobilize the nation for World War II?

5. Describe the key technological developments by the Allies during World War II. Why were the Allies able to quickly move ahead of Germany and Japan in this area?

6. In which area—intelligence or strategic use—were the technological advances by the Allies more important to their winning the war? Explain.

7. Consider racial minorities and women in the United States during World War II. Which groups made notable gains from the war and which did not? Explain.

8. Describe American society (the home front) during World War II. What were its pleasures and what were its pains?

9. How did the war affect the American economy? How did it affect the New Deal? What economic factors of the war would fuel a post-war boom of material prosperity in the United States?

10. How was the defeat of Nazi Germany organized and orchestrated? What critical reasons can be advanced to account for the Allied victory in Europe?

11. What were the reasons, strategic and otherwise, for a lack of action by the Allies toward the Holocaust in Europe during World War II? Were these reasons justified by the need to win the war? What do you think the Allies could have done?

12. Describe the development and making of the atomic bomb.

13. Critics have charged the United States was morally irresponsible in using atomic weapons against Japan during World War II. What are their arguments? What are the arguments in support o

14. f dropping the bombs? Was the United States’ action moral or not?

15. Do you agree or disagree with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs in 1945?

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