Unit 9: America at War Terms & Targets
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I can identify the significant military and political aspects of WWII.
I can describe the circumstances at home and abroad prior to US involvement in WWII.
I can identify and evaluate the scientific / technological developments in America during and after
WWII.
I can evaluate social, political, and economic impacts of WWII on the American home front.
I can analyze the dimensions of the Holocaust and the Allied response to it and other war crimes.
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I can analyze the origins of the Cold War.
I can analyze the foreign policy developments and events during the Cold War era.
I can analyze the social, cultural, and economic changes at the onset of the Cold War Era.
I can describe the political and social impacts of the Vietnam War.
I can evaluate the political and social impacts of the Vietnam War
World War II
Chapter 13
o Benito Mussolini
o Fascism
o Dictatorship
o Totalitarianism
o Neville Chamberlin
o Appeasement
o Winston Churchill
o Blitzkrieg
o Luftwaffe
o Axis
o Neutrality Act
o Cash-and-Carry
o Lend-Lease Act
o Atlantic Charter
o Manhattan Project
o Atomic Bomb
Chapter 14
o Operation Torch
o Dwight D Eisenhower
o Operation Overlord
o Tuskegee Airmen
o Rosie the Riveter
o D-Day
o Battle of the Bulge
o Kristallnacht
o Concentration Camps
Cold War
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Ghetto
Final Solution
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Death March
Battle of Midway
Kamikaze
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Internment
Yalta Conference
Enola Gay
United Nations
Potsdam Conference
Chapter 15
o Cold War
o Iron Curtain
o Truman Doctrine
o Containment
o Domino Theory
o Brinkmanship
o Berlin Airlift
Chapter 15 & 16
o House Un-American
Activities Committee
o Bomb Shelters
o Levittown
o Interstate Highway
System
o Sunbelt
Chapter 19
o Ho Chi Minh
o Vietcong
o Tonkin Gulf Resolution
o Operation Rolling Thunder
o Tet Offensive
o My Lai Massacre
o War Powers Act
o Doves
o Hawks