While watching the video take notes using the following Essential Questions to guide notes.  

1.  How did the mobilization of the military impact American families on the Homefront?

2.  In what ways did Americans mobilize at home and contribute to the war effort?

3.  How was propaganda used to encourage support of the war effort at home?

4.  How did the country react to FDR's death?

5.  What was the American reasoning for dropping the atomic bomb?

6.  Moving beyond WW2:  What does the end of the video suggest that the U.S. was about to face another conflict after the war with the Soviet Union? 

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