Apush Reading Guide
Chapter 36: “America in World War II”
Essential Questions
• After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, why get Germany first?
• At what level of military and economic preparedness was the U.S. at the start of the war?
• How and why did the treatment of immigrants differ between WWI and WWII? What was the
exception to this?
• How did Americans gear up for war politically, economically, and socially?
• What opportunities/challenges did the war present for women? for Black Americans?
• What were some of the important events in the Pacific theatre of the war? And the European?
• What was decided at Casablanca? At Teheran? At Potsdam?
• Why and how did American power win the war?
• How did the war change the United States?
Important Dates
Dec. 7, 1941
May 8, 1945
August 6, 9, and 15 1945
September 2, 1945
Terms
ABC-1 Agreement
Korematsu v. U.S.
Office of Price Admin.
War Labor Board
Smith-Connally Act
WAAC
WAVES
SPARs
Braceros
Sunbelt
FEPC
Tuskegee Airmen
“Double V”
NAACP
CORE
“Code Talkers”
Homefront
Jiang Jieshi
Gen. MacArthur
Battle of Midway
Leapfrogging
“Wolf Packs”
“Soft Underbelly”
Casablanca
Teheran
D-Day
Gen. Eisenhower
Gen. Patton
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Potsdam Conference
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
V-J Day