APUSH, Mr. Stack DIPLOMACY & WORLD WAR II

DIPLOMACY AND WORLD WAR II - ASSIGNMENT SHEET/ INFO ORGANIZER

A. READINGS/RESOURCES- CLASS WEBSITE-

1. Text: Ch.26, be sure to check out the following resources
2. Assignments are due by Monday- 4/19
3. Movie and Review Night- Tues., 4/13 , 6-10 pm /
  1. Digital History - Read chapters Joe Lewis-the Controversy Continues

  1. Crossroads Essay “The Age of FDR”
  2. ZInn, Chapter 16-
  3. Terms -Note Cards -->1251-1300, 1301-1350
  4. New Deal and Clouds of War Webquest- Tuesday odd, Wednesday even- Thursday 4/15 (odd) or Friday 4/16 (even)
  5. Roaring 20s- Depression/ New Deal take home test (to be posted Tuesday 4/13)

  1. DIPOLMACY-WWII TERMS/CONCEPTS/NAMES

Diplomacy Between the Wars / American Homefront / War/Diplomacy
1. Washington Conference
2. Kellogg-Briand Pact
3. Dawes Plan
4. London Economic Conference
5. Good Neighbor Policy
6. Neutrality Acts
7. "Quarantine " speech
8. "cash and carry"
9. America First Committe
10. Lend-lease
11. Atlantic Charter / Charles Evans Hughes
Fordney-McCumber Act
Mussolini’s Fascist Party
Nazi
Internationalism
Nationalism
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Gerald Nye
Axis
Quarantine
USS Panay
Munich Conference
Non-Aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Vichy
Dunkirk
William Allen White
Wendell Willkie / 1. War Production Board/Office of Price Administration
2. Rosie the Riveter
3. Japanese-American Internment
Congress of Racial Equality
Braceros
“Zoot-Suit Riots”
Betty Grable
“Swing Era”
Henry Kaiser
Little Steel Formula
“No Strike Pledge”
Smith-Connally Act
Anti-Inflation Act
Fair Employment Practices Commission
A. Philip Randolph
Korematsu v. U.S.
Thomas Dewey / 1. Pearl Harbor
2. Second Front/D-Day
3. Midway
4. Island Hopping
5. Yalta Conf.
6. Potsdam Conf.
7. Manhattan Project/A-Bombs
8. The Holocaust
General Douglas MacArthur
Admiral Chester Nimitz
General George Marshall
General George Patton
General Dwight Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Stalingrad
Incendiary raid on Dresden
Battle of the Bulge
VE & VJ Day
Iwo Jima
Kamikazes
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Enola Gay
  1. DIPLOMACY OF THE 1920s (Myth of Isolation)
  2. Replacing the League of Nations (Disarmament and Peace)
  3. Washington Conference (1912)

a. Five-Power Treaty

b. Four-Power Treaty

c. Nine-Power Treaty

2. Kellogg-Briand Pact

B.Debts and Diplomacy

  1. Reparations, Allies, and America (Problems)
  1. Dawes Plan

C.Herbert Hoover’s Foreign Policy

1. Latin America (Goodwill Tour)

2. Japanese Aggression in Manchuria

a. Causes (Militarist Power in Government)

b. Stimson Doctrine

II.ISOLATIONISM AND INTERNATIONALISM, 1933-1938 (FDR’s Policies)

A. Economic/Depression Diplomacy

1. London Economic Conference (1933)

  1. Reciprocal Trade Agreements
  1. Recognition of the Soviet Union

4. Philippines

B. The Good Neighbor Policy

1. Causes/Reasons

  1. Pan-American Conferences (Montevideo)

3. Cuba

4. Mexico

C. Fascism and Aggressive Militarism

1. Italy

2. Germany

3. Japan

D. Rise of American Isolationists

1. Revisionist History of WWI: Nye Committee

2. Neutrality Acts

a. 1935

b. 1936

c. 1937

  1. Spanish Civil War

4. America First Committee

  1. Prelude to War

1. Failure of Appeasement

a. Italy in Ethiopia, 1935

b. GermanyRhineland, 1936

c. Japan in China, 1937

d. GermanySudetenland, 1938

2. U.S. Response: “Quarantine Speech”

III.FROM NEUTRALITY TO WAR, 1939-1941

A. Outbreak of War in Europe

1. Invasion of Poland

2. “Blitzkrieg”

B. Changing U.S. Policy/Neutrality Tested

1. “Cash and Carry”

2. Shifting Public Opinion/Selective Service Act (1940)

3. Destroyers-for-Bases Deal (1940)

C. The Election of 1940

1. FDR & Third Election

2. Wendell Willkie

3. Results

D. Neutrality Abandoned/”Arsenal of Democracy”

1. Four Freedoms Speech (Jan. 1941)

2. Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)

3. Germany Invades USSR

4. Atlantic Charter (August 1941)

5. German U-Boats & US Response (Sept.-Oct. 1941)

a. “Greer”

b. “Rueben James”

c. Shoot-on-Sight

E. The Road to Pearl Harbor

1. Tripartite Pact

2. Japanese Expansion in Southeast Asia

3. U.S. Economic Action

4. Negotiations

5. Tojo Government & Tokyo’s Decision for War

F. Pearl Harbor

1. Attack

2. Partial Surprise

3. Declaration of War

IV.WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT

A. Industrial Production

1. Mobilizing Production

a. War Production Board (WPB)

b. Office of War Mobilization (OWM)

2. Prosperity

a. War Induced Recovery

b. War and the West

c. Henry Kaiser

3. Stabilizing the Boom: Wages, Prices, and Rationing

a. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

b. Rationing

4. Financing the War

a.

b.

5. Labor and the War

a. Union Gains

b. Union-Government Agreements

c. Strikes & Smith-Connally Act

B. The War’s Impact on Society

1. African Americans

a. Migration & Urban Tensions

b. Civil Rights Organizations

c. Armed Forces

2. Native Americans

a. Armed Forces

b. Job Opportunities & Effect on Reservations

3. Mexican –Americans

a. “braceros” & Employment Gains

b. Tensions & “Zoot-Suit” Riots

4. Women

a. Increased Employment

b. “Rosie the Riveter”

c. Military Service (WACs & WAVEs)

5. Japanese Americans

a. Ethnic Distinctions blurred

b. Anti-Japanese Prejudice

c. “Relocation Centers”

d. Korematsu v. U.S.

C. The Election of 1944

1. FDR and Democrats (Again)

2. Thomas Dewey and Republicans

3. Results

V.WORLD WAR II: THE BATTLEFRONTS

A. Fighting Germany

1. Military Strategy & Objectives

a.

b.

2. From North Africa (Operation Torch) to Italy

a.

b.

3. Soviet Union and Stalingrad

4. Dispute over the Second Front

5. Victory in Europe

a. D-Day

b. Battle of the Bulge

c. American and Russian Forces Move into Germany

d. Germany Defeated

B. Fighting Japan

1. Japanese Advancements

2. Turning Point, 1942

a. Battle of Coral Sea

b. Battle of Midway

c. Guadalcanal

3. Island Hopping

4. Major Battles

a. Leyte Gulf

b. Iwo Jima

c. Okinawa

d. Fire-bombing Tokyo

5. Atomic Bombs

a. The Manhattan Project

b. Trinity Bomb

c. Debating the Bomb’s Use (Major Arguments)

i. Support

ii. Oppose

iii. Truman’s Motives?

d. Hiroshima

e. Nagasaki

6. Japan Surrenders

VI.WARTIME CONFERENCES

A. Casablanca

B. Tehran

C. Yalta

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

D. Death of FDR

E. Potsdam (Failure?)

a. Japan

b. Poland

c. Germany

VII.THE WAR’S LEGACY

A. Costs

B. The United Nations

C. Expectations & Issues