U.S. and World II
Mr. Knets
World War II
I. Learning Objectives
1. Why did the Allies fail to check the aggressive actions of both Mussolini and Hitler? Be able to
describe each of the following events and their significance
a) Ethiopia
b) Rhineland
c) Sudetenland/Munich Conference
2. Why had the Japanese government become hostile to and suspicious of the United States by the
early 1930s?
3. How did the United States initially react to the build up and outbreak of war?
4. Be able to discuss the nature of fighting on each front of the war, including the type of strategy
utilized by the Allies in each of the following (Western Theater, Eastern Theater, Pacific
Theater)
5. Why were each of the following battles significance moments of WWII?
a) Pearl Harbor
b) Battle of Britain
c) Midway
d) Stalingrad
e) D-Day
6. Explain the justification for and the circumstances surrounding the internment by the US
government of Japanese Americans during World War II.
7. How did African American involvement during WWII impact the status of civil rights?
8. How were the women who filled war jobs treated? What obstacles did they face?
9. What long-term consequences for the role of women in society and the work force were
foreshadowed by the wartime experience?
10. What prompted the decision to drop the atomic bomb? (Include both military and political
factors)
Essential Question:
11. What types of dilemmas and opportunities were created during the events of WWII?
Turn Over…
II. Terms
Axis Powers Island Hopping Kellogg-Briand Pact
Allied Powers Kamikaze “The Big Three”
Blitzkrieg Yalta Conference “Rosie the Riveter”
Munich Conference Lend-Lease Act
Issei Locarno Pact
Nisei Manhattan Project
Yellow Peril Korematsu v. US
III. People
Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Robert Oppenheimer
Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini Neville Chamberlain
Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S. Truman