Unit 22: The Home Front During the War [Reference the text book and all resources pertaining to Unit 22 at www.socialstudiesguy.com]

• Wartime mobilization of the economy/Women, work, and family during the war• Chapter 21, Sections 1 and 3 How did the U.S. marshal its resources to effectively gain military power to defeat

its enemies? What was the value and contribution of women during WWII?

• Urban migration and demographic changes/War and regional development• Chapter 21, Section 3

What impact did immigration and population shifts have on US society during WWII?

• Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime/Expansion of government power• Chapter 21, Sections 1 and 3

How were individual civil rights affected by decisions of the federal government? Did the safety of the nation justify discrimination of minorities?

Essential Vocabulary Unit 22 Terms [all fair game for next test]• W.P.B. [War Production Board]• Segregated military [Tuskegee Airmen]• Double V Campaign• Eleanor Roosevelt• W.A.C.s [Women’s Army Corps], W.A.V.E.S. [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service], • Japanese and Hispanic-American military personnel• Rosie the Riveter• Bracero Program• Great Migration• Zoot Suit Riots• Korematsu vs. United States• Japanese Internment camps• Food/Fuel Rationing• O.P.A. [Office of Price Administration]• Victory Gardens/Scrap Drives• War Powers Act• Victory Loan Drives• Victory Speed Limits• Detroit Race Riot of 1943

Unit 21: [Reference the text book and all resources pertaining to Unit 21 at www.socialstudiesguy.com]

• The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany/Prelude to war: policy of neutrality

Chapter 20, Sections 1-4

How did policies in governments of the Axis Powers impact their citizens? How effective were the early isolationist/neutrality polices of FDR?

• The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war/Fighting a multi-front war

Chapter 20, Section 4, Chapter 21, Sections 2, 4-5

How did Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor lead to its own demise?

• Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences/The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age

Chapter 21, Section 5, Chapter 22, Sections 1-2

How did peace conferences affect war and post war time decisions? What role did the U.S. fulfill after WWII ended?

Essential Vocabulary Unit 21 Terms [all fair game for next test]• Fascism• Benito Mussolini• Nazism • Adolf Hitler• Joseph Stalin• Picasso’s Guernica• U.S. Neutrality Acts of 1935-7• Nye Committee• Roosevelt’s Internationalism• Anschluss• Munich Crisis/Conference• Appeasement• Blitzkrieg• Winston Churchill• Battle of Britain • General McArthur [and his dismissal by Truman]• Bataan Death March• Nuremberg Laws• Kristallnacht• St. Louis Affair• Wannsee Conference• Concentration/Death Camps• America First Committee• Truman Doctrine• Berlin Airlift• Marshall Plan• NATO/WARSAW PACT

• December 7, 1941 “A day that shall live in infamy”

• Naval battles in the Pacific• Army Battles in Europe and Africa• Casablanca Conference• Tehran Conference• Operation Overlord• D-Day• Island Hopping• Kamikaze• V-E Day/V-J Day• Fat man and Little Boy• President Harry S. Truman• Manhattan Project• Nuremberg Trials• Lend Lease Act• Yalta Conference• George F. Kennan• Long Telegram• Potsdam Conference• Iron Curtain• Chinese Revolution• Korean War begins