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January 8, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: History, US History, The Cold War And Beyond (After 1945), Cold War
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 Essential Question: – What are the key themes of

writing a DBQ? – How can students improve their most recent DBQ?  Reading Quiz Ch 27B (984-993)

Unit 12 Review Game  Prepare for

team vs. team review of the 1940s & 1950s  Nuclear War Death Match!

Name 6 specific examples of American foreign policy from 1920 to 1939

 Failure to join the League of Nations

or sign Treaty of Versailles  Washington Naval Conference (4, 5, & 9 Power Treaties)  Kellogg-Briand Pact  Dawes Plan (and Young Plan)  Hawley-Smoot Tariff  Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937  Cash-Carry Policy

Name 10 specific acts of totalitarian aggression prior to the outbreak of World War 2

 Japan: Invasions of Manchuria &

China  Italy: Invasions of Libya & Ethiopia  Germany: – Annexations of Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia – Defying Treaty of Versailles via militarization, troops to the Rhineland – Treaties such as Munich Pact and Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Name 5 ways the USA evolved towards greater intervention in WW2 prior to December 1941

 FDR’s “Quarantine Speech”  Destroyers-for-bases deal in 1940

 Peacetime draft  $10 billion for “preparedness”

 Lend-Lease aid in 1941  Arming U.S. naval ships &

permission to fire on German subs  Atlantic Charter with FDR & Churchill  oil embargo to Japan

Name 2 effects each of World War 2 on: African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Japanese-Americans, women

 African-Ams: migration north &

west, segregated military units, banned discriminatory hiring practices, “Double V” campaign  Mexican-Americans: agrarian work in SW, zoot-suit riots, eased immigration restrictions  Japanese-Americans: internment, fought in European theater  Women: joined WAC & WAVES, “Rosie the Riveter,” massive entrance into the workforce

Define each of the following homefront initiatives:  Office of War Mobilization  War Production Board  Office of Price Administration  Office of War Information  Fair Employment Practices

Commission  Office of Strategic Services  Executive Order 9066

 OWM—oversaw military priorities & the

draft  WPB—oversaw industrial production  OWI—propaganda  OPA—controlled inflation by rationing

essential goods  FEPC—banned racial discrimination in war-related industries  OSS—conducted espionage  9066—Japanese internment camps

WW1: Name 3 Central & 5 Allies Powers WW2: Name 3 Axis & 5 Allied Powers

World War 1

World War 2

Allies before Pearl Harbor; Allies after Pearl Harbor

Name 4 military operations or strategies used by the Allies or Axis in WW2

 America’s “Europe First” strategy  Operation Barbarossa; Hitler's invasion

    

  

of USSR Operation Husky in North Africa Operation Overlord (D-Day) Doolittle Raid on Tokyo Island Hopping in the Pacific Blitzkrieg attacks by Germany Kamikaze attacks by Japan Firebombing by USA Atomic bomb vs. Operation Olympic

Name 4 battles in the European Theater Name 4 battles in the Pacific Theater

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Europe Invasion of Poland Battle of Britain Stalingrad D-Day Battle of the Bulge Italian Campaign Bombing of Dresden Soviet occupation of Berlin

Pacific  Midway  Coral Sea  Guadalcanal  Leyte Gulf  Okinawa  Saipan  Iwo Jima  Bombing of Tokyo  Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Explain significance of each conference: Atlantic Charter Tehran Yalta Potsdam

 Atlantic Charter: FDR & Churchill

discussed strategy IF the USA enters; discussed a future United Nations  Tehran: USA & Britain agreed to open a western front; Stalin agreed to United Nations  Yalta: Stalin agreed to selfdetermination & invasion of Japan  Potsdam: ultimatum to Japan, division of Germany, Stalin broke promise of self-determination in Europe

Name 2 effects of WW1 Name 2 effects of WW2



     

WW1: Formation of the League of Nations U.S. retreat into isolationism Dawes Plan, but world depression Spread of fascism & totalitarianism 30 million deaths Led to WW2 Disarmament talks

WW2:  Formation of the United Nations  U.S. accepts role as superpower  Marshall Plan & economic recovery  Spread of communism  70 million deaths  Led to Cold War  Atomic weapons

Identify each of the following: “America First” Manhattan Project Truman’s Executive Order 9981 NSC-68 ICBM

 America First: Group dedicated to   



keeping USA out of WW2 (Lindbergh) Manhattan Project: initiative to build an atomic bomb 9981: Truman’s order to desegregate the military & civil service NSC-68: communism is a threat, must be contained, liberate communist nations ICBM—intercontinental ballistic missile

What “caused” each event? Berlin Airlift U.S. hydrogen bomb Formation of NATO Creation of NSC-68 National Defense Education Act “Military Industrial Complex” speech

 Berlin Blockade → Berlin Airlift  Soviet development of atomic

bomb → U.S. hydrogen bomb  Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia → Formation of NATO  Communism in China → NSC-68  Sputnik → NDEA (& NASA)  Eisenhower’s fear of having to out-spend the USSR in the Cold War → Military Indust Complex

Name 8 new programs, policies, or agencies developed by the USA as part of the Cold War

 Containment: Truman Doctrine,         

Marshall Plan, NATO Dept of Defense (and the Air Force) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) National Security Council (NSC) NSC-68 House Un-American Activities Committee & Loyalty Review Board Massive Retaliation, Brinksmanship Atomic arsenal, ICBMs NASA Eisenhower Doctrine

Name these people? Robert Oppenheimer Joseph McCarthy Alger Hiss A. Philip Randolph Jack Kerouac Mohammed Mossadegh

 Oppenheimer: Manhattan Project  McCarty: Led the “Red Scare”  Hiss: Spy in the Dept of State;

“Pumpkin Papers”  Randolph—led the “Double V” campaign during WW2  Kerouac: Beatnik; anti-conformist  Mossadegh: Iranian prime minister; Overthrown in 1st ever CIA led coup

Name 7 examples that America was an “Affluent Society” in the 1950s

 Culture of consumerism  Boom in # of televisions (50 million)  Baby boom  Cars, highways, drive-ins

 Growth of the suburbs  Teen market

 Gov’t spending on military  Expectation of college for middle-

class kids

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