Benson
AP U.S. History
Unit 10 Overview and Study Guide
WWII and the Early Cold War
Time frame: 2 weeks
Required reading: Enduring Vision chapters 25, 26, and 27 through page 853
Assessments: 1. Follow calendar of assignments—quizzes always possible
2. DBQ on March 13/14
3. Unit objective test on March 17/18
Main ideas: 1. The U.S. slowly moved from isolation to full engagement in 1941.
2. The war had a profound social, economic and political effect on the home front.
3. Following WWII, the United States experienced an economic boom, a wave of conservatism, and the foreign policy of containment.
4. The U.S. engaged in series of both covert and conventional operations in an effort to contain communism around the world during the administrations of Truman and Eisenhower.
5. The fear of communism led to a Second Red Scare in the U.S. and weakened the appeal of Truman’s liberal Fair Deal initiatives.
6. Eisenhower’s election ended two decades of Democratic control and ushered in a period of more centrist domestic policy along with a more conservative and conformist society.
WWII important terms from chapter 25 and class discussions:
Japanese expansionism Good Neighbor Policy Neutrality Acts
FDR’s quarantine speech U.S. response to invasion of Poland
the fall of France cash and carry policy destroyers for bases
FDR’s Four Freedoms Lend Lease Act the Atlantic Charter
Selective Service Act undeclared naval war sanctions against Japan
Pearl Harbor Office of Strategic Services War Production Board
no-strike pledge increased income taxes war bonds
Office of Price Admin. Nat. War Labor Board Office of War Information
Office of Scientific Research and Development Manhattan project
Theaters of fighting D-Day island hopping
El Alamein Battle of the Bulge Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway Battle of Leyte Gulf Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japanese internment camps Korematsu v. U.S.
Development of L.A. Tuskegee Airmen CORE
Zoot suit riots Navajo “codetalkers” Rosie the Riveter
Smith Connally Act Yalta Conference United Nations
Death of FDR Harry S Truman Potsdam Conference
Geneva Conference Nuremburg trials
Early Cold War terms from pages 820-830, 850-853, and class discussions:
Harry S Truman Joseph Stalin containment
United Nations UN security council World Bank
Baruch Plan iron curtain NATO
Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Warsaw Pact
Berlin airlift United Nations Sputnik
The World Bank blacklisting Chinese civil war
Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong Korean War
38th parallel General MacArthur CIA
covert operations Suez Canal crisis Eisenhower Doctrine
space race U-2 incident Joseph McCarthy
Second Red Scare Alger Hiss Rosenberg case
HUAC Hollywood Ten Nikita Khrushchev
National Security Act John Foster Dulles Massive retaliation Iranian coup Guatemalan coup Hungarian revolt
1st Indochina War domino theory Ngo Dinh Diem
military-industrial complex
Domestic changes and policies from pages 816-820, 830-840,844-850, and class:
reconversion GI Bill of Rights Employment Act of 1946
1946 labor strikes Taft Hartley Act Jackie Robinson
Comm. on Civil Rights Dixiecrats Strom Thurmond
1948 election Fair Deal proposals the Second Red Scare
HUAC Fed. Employee Loyalty Hollywood Ten
Smith Act of 1940 Alger Hiss Klaus Fuchs
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg McCarthyism McCarran Internal Security Act
1952 election dynamic conservatism extended New Deal benefits
1954 Interstate Highway Act downfall of McCarthy social conformity
baby boom suburbia rock n’ roll
TV culture AFL-CIO merge (1955) Salk’s polio vaccine (1954)
consumer craze Dr. Spock Baby and Child Care
weakened feminism the beat generation Levitttown
U.S. Presidents:
Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1933-1945
Harry S Truman (D) 1945-1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 1953-1961
Related chapters in Amsco: chapters 25, 26, and 27