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