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| DISCUSS FDR'S "GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY" AND ITS CONSEQUENCES |
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it declared that the United States would not depend on military force to exercise its influence in the region.
In 1934, Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which gave the president the power to reduce tariffs on goods imported into the United States from nations that agreed to lower their own tariffs on U.S. exports. |
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| DESCRIBE THE EVENTSS IN EUROPE AND ASIA THAT THREATENED WORLD PEACE AND THE US REACTION |
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In Europe, fascist governments in Italy and Germany threatened military aggression.
In Japan, a stridently militaristic government planned to follow the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 with conquests extending throughout Southeast Asia.
the hostilities in Asia and Europe reinforced isolationist sentiments. |
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| DISCUSS HOW THE NEUTRALITY ACTS OF 1930S HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR WWii |
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The neutrality acts prohibited making loans and selling arms to nations at war and authorized the president to warn Americans about traveling on ships belonging to belligerent countries.
The Neutrality Act of 1937 attempted to reconcile the nation's desire for both peace and foreign trade with a “cash-and-carry” policy that required warring nations to pay cash for nonmilitary goods and to transport them in their own ships. This policy supported foreign trade and thereby benefited the nation's economy, but it also helped foreign aggressors by supplying them with goods and thereby undermining peace. |
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| DISCUSS THE US CHANGING POSITION TOWARDS INVOLVEMENT IN EUROPEAN AND ASIAN CONFLICTS BY 1939 |
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| CHARACTERIZE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GERMANY AND SOVIET UNION AT THE START OF WWII |
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| the two powers signed the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August 1939, exposing Poland to an onslaught by the German Wehrmacht (army) and the Soviet Red Army. |
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| EXPLAIN HOW THE LEND AND LEASE PROGRAM PROPELED THE US TOWARDS WAR WITH GERMANY |
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| Nazi U-boats (submarines) prowled the Atlantic, preying upon ships laden with supplies for Britain, making it only a matter of time before American citizens and their property would be attacked. Roosevelt provided naval escorts for Lend-Lease supplies and gave his commanders orders to “shoot on sight” menacing German submarines, thus edging the nation closer to all-out combat. |
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| DISCUSS THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7 1941 |
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| Americans instantly united in their desire to fight and avenge the attack |
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| ID THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT AGAINST ESPIONAGE AND INTERNAL SUBVERSION DURING WWII |
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| Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized sending all Americans of Japanese descent to ten makeshift prison (or internment) camps |
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| ANALYSE THE IMPACT OF WWII ON THE US ECONOMY |
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| By the end of the war, there were more jobs than workers, plants were operating at full capacity, and the federal budget topped $100 billion. |
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| LOCATE THE PACIFIC THEATER BATTLE THAT PROVED TO BE A TURNING POINT IN THE ALLIES WAR AGAINST JAPAN |
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| ANALYZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLIES PLAN TO OPEN A SECOND FRONT IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY |
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| A cross-Channel invasion would force Hitler to divert his armies from the eastern front and relieve the pressure on the Soviet Union, which was fighting alone against the full strength of the German Wehrmacht |
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| ANALYSZE THE EXPERIENCES OF WWII FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE US |
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5.5 million black Americans migrated from the South to centers of industrial production in the North and West, making a majority of African Americans city dwellers for the first time in U.S. history. Many discovered that unskilled jobs were available but that unions and employers often barred blacks from skilled trades. At least eighteen major unions—including the machinists, ironworkers, shipbuilders, and railway workers—explicitly prohibited black members. Severe labor shortages and government fair employment standards opened assembly-line jobs in defense plants to African Americans, causing black unemployment to drop by 80 percent during the war.
Blacks' migration to defense jobs intensified racial antagonisms, which boiled over in the hot summer of 1943, when 242 race riots erupted in 47 cities. |
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| ANALYSZE THE EXPERIENCES OF WWII FOR WOMEN IN THE US |
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| Millions of American women gladly left home toting a lunch pail and changed into overalls and work gloves to take their places on assembly lines in defense industries. |
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| DESCRIBE THE GI BILL OF RIGHTS |
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| It promissed to give veterans government funds for education, housing, and health care and to provide loans to help them start businesses and buy homes. The GI Bill put the financial resources of the federal government behind the abstract goals of freedom and democracy for which veterans were fighting, and it empowered millions of GIs to better themselves and their families after the war. |
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| DISCUSS THE US REACTION TO REPORTS OF HITLERS FINAL SOLUTION IN EUROPE |
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| Despite such reports, skeptical U.S. State Department officials refused to grant asylum to Jewish refugees. The U.S. Office of War Information worried that charging Germans with crimes against humanity might incite them to greater resistance and prolong the war. |
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| EVALUATE THE RESULTS OF THE D-DAY INVASION |
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| the Allies liberated Paris from four years of Nazi occupation |
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| DISCUSS PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB |
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| Truman, who had been a commander of combat troops in World War I, saw no reason not to use the atomic bomb against Japan if doing so would save American lives. But first he issued an ultimatum: Japan must surrender unconditionally or face utter ruin. When the Japanese failed to respond by the deadline given, Truman ordered that a bomb be dropped on a Japanese city not already heavily damaged by American raids. |
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