APUSH
Dr. I. Ibokette
Unit 10: The Interwar Years’ Diplomacy and World War II: 1919-1945
A. Foreign Policy, 1919 - 1941
B. World War II, 1939 – 1945
As usual, use the recommended “4-step” reading and note-taking process. Also, use the
“looking ahead” and “recall and reflect” questions; as well as the “study questions” and key
terms and names provided as guides to both the context and significance of sub-themes within
the unit.
A. Foreign Policy:
Key Terms & Names: Chapter 25
1. Washington Conference 1921
2. Dawes Plan
3. Kellogg-Briand Pact
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Adolph Hitler
6. Henry Stimson
7. Cordell Hull
8. Good Neighbor Policy
9. Neutrality Acts 1935-37
10. Appeasement
11. Quarantine Speech
12. Cash-and-Carry
13. America First Committee
14. Lend-Lease Act
15. Atlantic Charter
16. Hideki Tojo
17. U.S. embargo on Japan
18. Pearl Harbor
Sub-Sections
a. Setting the Stage 709
 “Looking Ahead”
i. What are some of the view that Americans expressed as the world crises of the 1930s
expanded?
ii. How did the econ. crisis of the worldwide Gt Dep help create new political orders in
many nations?
iii. What was the sequence of events between 1939 and 1941 that brought the US into
military involvement in WWII?
b. The Diplomacy of the New Era 710
c. Isolationism and Internationalism 712
d. From Neutrality to Intervention 718
e. End-of-Chapter Review 725
 Looking Back
 Significant Events
Recall and Reflect, 726
i. What diplomatic efforts and agreements of the 1920s and the 1930s attempted to deal with
the increasing global political crises of the era? Why were these efforts unsuccessful?
ii. How and why did US foreign policy change during the 1920s and 1930s?
iii. How did the goals of the Neutrality Acts change over the course of the 1930s? What was
the reason for the change?
iv. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
g. A timeline of seven to ten key events/developments
Study Questions
1. During the 1920s, what were the primary objectives of U.S. foreign policy? How did the
United States go about achieving these objectives?
2. Describe American foreign policy objectives with Europe during the 1920s.
3. What were the weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s?
4. In what ways did the Hoover administration continue past foreign policy? In what way did it
break from the past?
5. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Hoover administration’s foreign policy?
6. Why did the events surrounding World War I encourage the growth of isolationism in the
United States during the 1920s and 1930s?
7. Were American isolationists in the 1920s and 1930s a recent phenomenon, or did their
thinking fit into traditional American ideas regarding foreign policy? Justify your response.
8. How were the activities of other nations affected by American isolationism in the 1930s?
9. How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be
labeled internationalist?
10. What steps were taken during the 1930s to reinforce the American retreat from Europe?
What steps did the Roosevelt administration take to lead the United States away from
isolationism?
11. Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.
12. Was war between the United States and Japan inevitable? Could it have been avoided?
B. World War II, 1939 – 1945.
Key Terms and Names: Chapter 26
1. Battle of Coral Sea
2. Battle of Midway
3. Guadalcanal
4. Midway
5. Vichy
6. Holocaust
7. St. Louis
8. economic recovery
9. Smith-Connally Act
10. Colossus II
11. Office of Price Administration/War Production Board
12. A. Philip Randolph
13. FEPC
14. Second Great Migration
15. CORE
16. Code-talkers
17. braceros program
18. Enrico Fermi
19. zoot-suit riots
20. female labor/Rosie the Riveter
21. Japanese American internment/Relocation Centers
22. Korematsu v. U.S.
23. D-Day invasion
24. Dwight Eisenhower
25. Battle of the Bulge
26. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
27. Manhattan Project
28. Harry Truman
29. Enola Gay
30. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sub-Sections
a. Setting the Stage
 “Looking Ahead”
i. What was the impact of the war on the US econ?
ii. How was the US military experience in WWII different for Europe and the Pacific?
iii. How did the war affect life on the home front, especially for women, organized labor, and
minorities?
b. War on Two Fronts 729
c. The American People in War Time 732
d. The Defeat of the Axis 746
e. End-of-Chapter Review 754
 Looking Back
 Significant Events
Recall and Reflect, 755
i. List some of the measures that the fed govt took to mobilize the nation’s
econ for the war effort.
ii. How did advances in technology affect the course of the military conflict?
iii. How did the US contribute to the Allied victory in Europe? How
important were America’s allies? Which allies were most important?
iv. How did the war affect US society: women, workers, Af. Americans,
Japanese Americans, and immigrants?
v. Why did the US bomb civilians in Japan and Europe in the Last years of
the War?
f. A timeline of seven to ten key events/developments
Study Questions
1. Trace the significant battles and events in the Pacific between the United States and Japan
during World War II.
2. What strategic concerns and desires divided the Americans, the British, and the Soviets
during World War II?
3. What were the short- and long-term consequences of the Allied decision in 1942 to engage in
an African campaign against Germany?
4. What steps did the federal government take to mobilize the nation for World War II?
5. Describe the key technological developments by the Allies during World War II. Why were
the Allies able to quickly move ahead of Germany and Japan in this area?
6. In which area—intelligence or strategic use—were the technological advances by the Allies
more important to their winning the war? Explain.
7. Consider racial minorities and women in the United States during World War II. Which
groups made notable gains from the war and which did not? Explain.
8. Describe American society (the home front) during World War II. What were its pleasures
and what were its pains?
9. How did the war affect the American economy? How did it affect the New Deal? What
economic factors of the war would fuel a post-war boom of material prosperity in the United
States?
10. How was the defeat of Nazi Germany organized and orchestrated? What critical reasons can
be advanced to account for the Allied victory in Europe?
11. What were the reasons, strategic and otherwise, for a lack of action by the Allies toward the
Holocaust in Europe during World War II? Were these reasons justified by the need to win
the war? What do you think the Allies could have done?
12. Describe the development and making of the atomic bomb.
13. Critics have charged the United States was morally irresponsible in using atomic weapons
against Japan during World War II. What are their arguments? What are the arguments in
support o
14. f dropping the bombs? Was the United States’ action moral or not?
15. Do you agree or disagree with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs in
1945?