WW2 Exam Review
Things to Know:
Neutrality Acts & how they change?
Lend Lease Act - why did it exist?
Four Freedoms speech
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Selective Service & Training Act, 1940
American mobilizing for war on home front - economically, socially, politically
Japanese Internment, Executive Order 9066 - Korematsu case, reasons for internment, aftermath (activity with readings and newsreel)
Significance of Rosie the Riveter
Second front debate, island hopping campaign, D-Day, atomic bomb
Big Three - Allied Leaders
Understand how U.S. economy expanded from involvement in war (end of Depression)
Role of African Americans during war
Formation of United Nations
Beginnings of Cold War: free elections in Poland, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, satellite nations, iron curtain