 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
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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
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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
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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,
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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