America and World War II

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• What are the sequence of events in the 1930s that led to WWII?
• How did the US. government seek to keep morale high and to control the flow of information during World War II?
• What was the “St. Louis Affair"?
• How did President Eisenhower approach the nation's problems?
• Who attacked America at Pearl Harbor?
• On what date did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
• What was the D-Day operation?
• Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
• How did the United States support the Allies with economic aid while staying out of the fighting during WWII?
• Who was executed for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets?
• What was the main reason for the allies victory in WWII?
• The period between WWI and WWII was one of anxiety, economic misery, and mounting stress for individual people and nations. What caused this distress?
• How did WWI contribute to the beginning of WWII?
• How did WWII make the US a superpower?
• Truman always described Marshall Aid and the Truman Doctrine as "Two haIves of the same walnut". What do you think he meant by this?
• How did some Japanese Americans die in the Japanese Internment Camps?
• Which women's military unit was established to transport airplanes from the manufacturers to military bases?
• How did Truman justify the use of the atomic bomb?
• Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact considered useless?
• What was a "cow sub" in WWII?
• What did the Truman administration hope to prevent with the European Recovery Program?
• What caused America to enter World War II?
• What was the response of the United States to reports of German persecution of Jews?
• Which 1942 battle was a decisive victory for the United States in the Pacific theater of World War II?
• Why and how did the Americans force the Japanese to trade with the United States?
• What was the purpose of the visit to Japan by the U.S. Naval Fleet commanded by Matthew C. Perry?
• Which president desegregated the American military after World War II?
• What did the United States hope to achieve with the Manhattan Project?
• In terms of global strategy, where was America's "second front" in World War II?
• How did the U.S. stop the Japanese aggression in Asia?
• Why was the Battle of Midway considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
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• Why did some people find Barry Goldwater's views threatening?
• What was Eisenhower's approach to foreign affairs?
• What did the Einstein-Szilard letter warn President Roosevelt about in 1939?
• Who created the Office of Price Administration?
• Why did Japanese Americans generally face more restrictions than Italian or German Americans during World War II?
• Following Pearl Harbor, what did the the U.S. government do after it declared war on Japan and Germany?
• Why did General Douglas MacArthur struggle to hold the U.S. positions in the Philippines?
• What mistake did General Douglas MacArthur make in December 1941?
• About how many African Americans joined the military during World War II?
• What ships survived the attack on Pearl Harbor untouched?
• What allowed the American Pacific Fleet to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
• What was the Manhattan Project?
• Why did the 1939 cash-and-carry amendment to the Neutrality Acts favor Britain over Germany?
• During World War II, what battle was the first significant US victory in the Pacific?
• What did the United States use to overcome the threat of German U-boats?
• What casualties did the Japanese suffer after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan?
• What did U.S. car companies produce during World War II?
• What is the practice of "Brinkmanship"?
• During WWII, the American armed forces were still segregated by race. Why do you think this issue became increasingly important during this era, leading to the desegregation of the Armed Forces a few years after the war?
• Who was the General for the U.S. during World War Two in the Pacific theater?
• What did Rosie the Riveter symbolize during World War II?
• What was the result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? What were the problems that the United States faced after World War 2?
• What did the U.S. government fear about Japan, which led to the decision to use atomic bombs?
• How many years did American troops have to fight to defeat the Axis Power?
• What act of U.S. expansion was the direct result of Matthew Perry's naval journey to Japan?
• When was the House Un-American Activities Committee formed?
• Who was the "woman" who represented American women working in defense plants during WWII?
• In what city and state was the atomic bomb tested?
• When the diplomatic relations between Japan and the U.S came to a stalemate, what event occurred that brought the U.S into WWII?
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• Why was the Battle of Coral Sea a victory for the United States?
• In what way did President Dwight Eisenhower disagree with Harry Truman on foreign policy?
• During World War II, why did people to migrate to the South and West?
• How did U.S. foreign policy change immediately after Pearl Harbor?
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• Why were the Japanese Americans interned in 1942?
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• What caused the rise in prosperity in the United States following WWII?
• What did Truman's Executive Order 9981 call for?
• What is another name for the D-Day landing?
• Whose civil liberties did the U.S. government violate during WWII, and in what ways did they do this?
• What happened to Japanese Americans during World War II? Why?
• In addition to Japanese Americans, what other groups were sometimes detained in internment camps in the U.S.?
• What was the name given to the U.S. strategy for winning the war against Japan in the Pacific?
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• Why did the United States use rationing during World War II?
• How did the U.S. help Britain During World War 2?
• How many years did President Eisenhower serve as President of the United States?
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• What is the city targeted for the dropping of the second atomic bomb?
• What role did Dwight D. Eisenhower play in the North Africa campaign?
• What does "shikata ga nai" mena? How does it affect the Japanese Americans response to the internment?
• What was the major and immediate outcome of the Japanese attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
• Why did President Truman ask Congress to give financial aid to Greece and Turkey?
• How were the atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War Il an example of "total war"?
• Why did FDR intern tens of thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during the war?
• How did WWII propel the civil rights movement?
• What role did the Office of War Mobilization play during the war?
• Why did President Truman agree to use the the atomic bomb?
• Why was the United States motivated to launch the Marshall Plan immediately following World War II?
• What led Adolf Hitler to order German submarines to attack American ships?
• What was the costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps?
• Who were the Tuskegee airmen and what were their exploits?
• How did the experience of gay Americans serving in World War ll compare to that of other minority groups?