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

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