Monday, March 24, 2025

World War II

 Today we are going to start World War II.

Here are things you need to know:

 
Important dates:

September 19,  1931 - Japan invades Manchuria

October 3rd, 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia

July 7, 1937 - Japan invades China

September 1st, 1939 - Germany invades Poland

July 26 1941 - U.S. freezes Japanese assets

December 7th 1941 - Pearl Harbor

GO Here for the DAY OF INFAMY speech
Two documents - Day of Infamy or the Decision to Drop the Bomb.
Day of Infamy (TEXT)
Truman on the dropping of the atomic bomb (Speech)
Decision to Drop the Bomb 
 
Other things to Know

Executive Order 9066

WAC, WAVES, SPARS

Congress of Racial Equality

Code Talkers

Battle of Midway

D-Day

Potsdam Conference

Manhattan Project

Douglas MacArthur

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower

 

Discuss the Battle of Midway.
2) Discuss island-hopping as a strategy
3) What was the Manhattan Project?  Who headed it up?
4) Discuss D-Day.  What was it?
5) Why did the U.S. use atomic weapons on Japan?  What cities were bombed? 
6) Who were the Axis Powers?  Who were the Allied Powers?
7) List and explain three causes of the Depression

8) What was the New Deal?
10) Who were FDR's critics and what did they criticize?
11) What were the Fireside Chats?
12) Discuss the reasons the U.S. entered into World War I
13) Discuss three points of Wilson's 14 points.
15) What were some negative outcomes of World War I
16) Why did the U.S. enter the Spanish-American War?
17) How did the War make the U.S. an imperial power?
18) Discuss Theodore Roosevelt's importance as President.  What did he do?

 

1) Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?

2) What was the Harlem Renaissance and why was it important?

3) Discuss prohibition. What was it? Was it successful? What did it cause?

6) Why was Charles Lindbergh considered a hero? Do you agree or disagree?

7) Who or what was the "Bonus Army"?

8) How did Herbert Hoover fail?

9) What were the New Deal and the Hundred Days?

10) Discuss FDR's court-packing scheme. Why did it fail? Do you agree with FDR?

11) Who was Amelia Earnhardt?

12) Define the Land-Lease program and list the fascist countries and leaders at the end of the 30s. 

1) What was the Zimmerman note?
2) What finally pushed the United States into World War I?
3) What were Wilson's Fourteen Points?
4) How did WWI impact civil liberties?
5) What was the Food Administration?  Its leader?
6) How did the US pay for WWI?
7) How did the US raise troops to fight in WWI?
8) How did US fighters impact the war?
10) How did Wilson's Fourteen Points fall apart at Versailles?
11) Why did the Versailles Treaty ultimately fail?

 


2) Who were the three candidates in 1912?
3) Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?
4) What was the 16th, 17th. 18th, 19th Amendment?s
7) What was America's stance as World War I began?
9) What happened to the Lusitania?
10) What was the Sussex Pledge?
11) What were the results of the election of 1916?

 

-Teller Amendment 

-Rough Riders

-Platt Amendment

- Roosevelt Corollary

 
 FROM A PREVIOUS TEST

1) Discuss the Battle of Midway.
2) Discuss island-hopping as a strategy
3) What was the Manhattan Project.  Who headed it up.
4) Discuss D-Day.  What was it?
5) Why did the U.S. use atomic weapons on Japan?  What cities were bombed? 
6) Who were the Axis Powers?  Who were the Allied Powers?
7) List and explain three causes of the Depression
8) Discuss the 1st New Deal and outline three programs that came out of it
9) Discuss the 2nd New Deal and outline two programs that came out of it
10) Who were FDR's critics and what did they criticize.
11) What were the Fireside Chats?
12) Discuss three reasons the U.S. entered into World War I
13) Discuss three points of Wilson's 14 points.
14) What were some positive outcomes of World War I
15) What were some negative outcomes of World War I
16) Why did the U.S. enter the Spanish-American War (besides the sinking of the Maine)?
17) How did the War make the U.S. an imperial power?
18) Discuss Theodore Roosevelt's importance as President.  What did he do?
 

 

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