World War II

Learning Targets:

• I can summarize the origins of World War II, & I can assess the American response to the growing international crisis from 1935-1941.
  
• I can analyze the military strategies the United States & its allies pursued during World War II.
  
• I can explain the opportunities & hardships the war created for Americans on the home front.
  

Critical Vocabulary:
"War Guilt" Article, World War Foreign Debt Commission, Dawes Plan, Washington Conference, Four Power Treaty of 1921, London Naval Conference of 1930, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Pan-American Conference, "Good Neighbor Policy,"  Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Third Reich, Emperor Hirohito, "Stimson Doctrine," Nye Committee, Neutrality Acts, "Cash-and-Carry,” General Francisco, Berlin-Rome Axis, Anti-Comintern Pact, "Rape of Nanking," USS Panay, "Ludlow Amendment," "Quarantine Speech,” Munich Conference, Non-Aggression Pact, "Phony War," "Battle of Britain," Tripartite Pact, “Destroyer-Bases Deal,” "Arsenal of Democracy,” "Lend-Lease" Bill, White Committee , American First Committee, Atlantic Charter, General Hideki Tojo, Pearl Harbor, General Douglas MacArthur, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, "Island-Hopping," Iwo Jima, Okinawa, General Dwight David Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General George S. Patton, Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, “Battle of the Bulge,” War Resources Board, National War Labor Board, War Labor Disputes Act, Office of Price Administration, Office of Scientific Research and Development, “Manhattan Project,” Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WAVEs, "Tuskegee Airmen," "Codetalkers,” "Rosie the Riveter,” "Double-V," "Zoot Suit Riots," Office of War Information, Why We Fight, Executive Order 9066, Korematsu v. United States, "Grand Alliance," Casablanca Conference, Cairo Declaration, Tehran Conference, United Nations, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Hiroshima, Nagasaki