AP - Chapter 25-26 Study Guide

The Global Crisis and World War II

KEY TERMS

MUST KNOW: / Circular Loans (Dawes Plan) / FEPC
isolationism / Manchuria invasion / CORE
interventionism / FDR’s “Bombshell” / “Code-Talkers”
fascism / Reciprocal Trade Agreement / braceros
totalitarianism / The Good Neighbor Policy / Zoot-Suit Riots
Nazi Germany / Inter-American Conference / “Rosie the Riveter”
Pearl Harbor / Neutrality Acts / “government girls”
World War II / “Quarantine Speech” / WACs and WAVEs
Axis Powers / Munich Conference “Appeasement” / “latchkey children”
Allies / Cash-and-Carry Policy / “Baby Boom”
militarism / America First Committee / Life Magazine
Japanese atrocities / Wendell Wilkie / USO
concentration camps / Lend-Lease Policy / “Relocation Centers” WRA
Holocaust / Atlantic Charter / Korematsu v. United States
mobilization / Tripartite Pact / repeal of Chinese Exclusion
racial segregation / Battle of Midway / 1944 Election
civil liberties / Guadalcanal / “Strategic Bombing”
Japanese Internment / Stalingrad / Battle of the Bulge
“Island-Hopping” / St. Louis / Leyte Gulf
D-Day invasion / Office of Price Administration (OPA) / Okinawa
Atomic bombs / War Production Board / Manhattan Project
National Defense Research Committee / J. Robert Oppenheimer
ADDITIONAL TERMS: / Radar & Sonar, ULTRA & MAGIC / Trinity
Washington Conference / “Double V” Campaign / Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Kellogg-Briand Pact / A. Philip Randolph / VE-Day & VJ Day

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

·  What were the key foreign policy decisions including international investment, peace treaties, and military intervention during the 1920s and early 1930s?

·  To what extent was the U.S. isolationist in the 1920s and 1930s?

·  Why did most Americans oppose military action in the 1930s despite the rise of fascism, totalitarianism and acts of aggression by Nazi Germany and Japan?

·  What effect did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor have on the United States?

·  To what extent was World War II a fight for the survival of freedom and democracy against fascist and militaristic ideologies and revelations about Japanese wartime atrocities, Nazi concentration camps, and the Holocaust?

·  What effect did World War II mass mobilization have on the U.S. economy and the lingering effects of the Great Depression?

·  How did the U.S. industrial base play a pivotal role in helping the Allies win World War II?

·  What social effects did World War II have on women and minorities?

·  How did World War II lead to debates over racial segregation and challenges to civil liberties?

·  How did Allied cooperation, technological and scientific advances, the contributions of servicemen and women, and strategies such as Pacific “island hopping” and the D-Day invasion lead to defeat of the Axis powers?

·  How did the use of atomic bombs both contribute to the end of the war and spark debates over the morality of atomic weapons?

·  How did the United States emerge from the war as the most powerful nation on the globe?