20TH CENTURY HISTORY

                                                                             CHAPTER 17

                                                                                  REVIEW

 

VOCABULARY:  Four Freedoms, Rationing, Relocation, Taft Hartley Act, Nisei, Issei, Chicano, Victory Garden, Racism, Discrimination, Boom Town, Infrastructure, Latchkey,  Zootsuiter, Integration,      Executive Orders 9066 and 8802, Military-Industrial Complex, Martial Law, Racism, De Jure & De Facto Segregation, , Mobilization,            Dumbarton Oaks, Brenton Woods, Island Hopping, Atlantic Charter,  Yalta,  Kamikazes, Enola  Gay, Manhattan Project ,  Hiroshima, , Dumbarton Oaks, Island Hopping, Korematsu V. US, Wolf Packs, Afrika Korps,  Operation Overlord,  Casablanca Conference, Conscription

 

                                     

ACRONYMNS:  N.A.A.C.P., GNP, C.P.I., U.M.W., O.P.A., W.P.B., N.W.L.B., F.E.P.C.,  I.M.F. , V.J. DAY, I.M.F., V.E. Day, E.T.O.

 

PERSONALITIES: Philip Randolph, John L. Lewis, Tojo , Hirohito,  Chaimg Kai Shek,  Kilroy,     Churchill, , Rommel, Montgomery, McArthur,  Eisenhower, Robert Oppenheimer, Truman, Franco, Charles DeGaulle

 

BATTLES:  El Alamein, Bulge, Normandy, Stalingrad, , Dunkirk, Midway, Coral Seas, Corregador, Pearl Harbor, Leyte Bay

 

ESSAYS

 

 1.        List the Emergency War Powers of the President. Discuss and exemplify how they were utilized by F.D.R. during W.W. II.

 2.        Discuss and exemplify the lasting impact upon the economy that resulted from the depression and world war II eras.

 3.        Discuss the rationale for the migrations that occurred prior to and during World War II. What were the unintended consequences of these migrations to the communities and peoples affected?

 4.        Discuss and exemplify the dual impact that the selling of Liberty Bonds had during World War II.

 5.        Discuss the agenda advocated by both F.D.R. and William Randolph before the march on Washington. Detail the components of the resulting compromise.

 6.        Discuss and exemplify the various components involved with Mobilization both political and economic; both mandatory and voluntary.

 7.        What was the initial American strategy in the Pacific? What factors led to a change in this strategy? What was the new Strategy? Was it successful in what it attempted to accomplish?

 8.        Discuss the agreements made at Yalta. How did rank and file Americans perceive these agreements. Why? What significant event did these agreements presage?

 9.        Discuss the various options available to Truman in bringing the war             with Japan to a conclusion. What were the merits and faults of each Proposal?

10.       Explain the motives behind Japanese expansion and why Americans were opposed to it.

11.        Explain the overall military strategy of the Allies as adopted at the Casablanca Conference.