CHAPTERS TWENTY-NINE AND THIRTY REVIEW SHEET
People
Benito Mussolini
P.M. Konoe  Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
Adolf Hitler
Chiang Kai-Shek
Harry S. Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Concepts and Terms
American isolationism: reasons for, forms of
Tripartite Pact
war debt
Pearl Harbor
Johnson Debt Default Act
initial setbacks in the Atlantic, Pacific
post-1914 Japanese aggression
Battle of Midway Island
Five-Power Treaty, Four-Power Treaty,
Nine-Powers Treaties
America’s “economic conversion”
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Manchuria  Manchukuo
Germany and Italy’s turn to fascism:
reasons for
Axis alliance
1930s German aggression
1930s American neutrality laws: trends
cash-and-carry
blitzkrieg
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Japanese-American Internment
Meetings at Washington (1942),
Casablanca (1943)
North African campaign  Sicily and Italy
radar technology
Meetings at Cairo (1943), Tehran (1943)
Operation Overlord, D-Day
Maginot Line
Battle of the Philippine Sea, Battle of Leyte
Gulf
1940 American military mobilization
kamikazes
FDR’s (unprecedented) third term
Battle of the Bulge
“arsenal of democracy”
Meeting at Yalta (1945): plans, legacy
lend-lease program
United Nations
“wolf packs”
post-war occupation of Germany
Atlantic Charter
V-E Day
“Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Holocaust
War Refugees Board
Potsdam Declaration
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
atomic bomb
war’s effects on social and political trends in
U.S.
Timeline
1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact
1939 – Germany invades Poland
1942 – FDR creates War Productions
Board; Roosevelt signs Executive Order
9066
1940 – Roosevelt elected to a third term;
Tripartite pact
1944 – D-Day invasion
1941 – Pearl Harbor
1945 – Yalta conference; Germany and
Japan surrender
Free Response
1. Why does the United States pursue a policy of isolationism after World War I? What forms
does this take?
2. What acts of aggression propel the world toward war in the 1930s?
3. What war preparations does the United States make prior to its official entrance? Why, and
how, does the United States aid the Allies prior to its official entrance?
4. Discuss the economic and social shifts that take place in the United States while it is at war.
5. Trace the meetings of the Allied leaders between 1942-1945: (a) How do they diverge on
military strategy? What courses do they pursue, and in what order? (b) What arrangements
do they make to shape the postwar world?
6. Discuss the legacy of World War II: (a) What technological advancements influence the
military progress and outcome of the war? (b) What are the war’s effects on economic and
political trends in the U.S.?