History
111: US History since 1865
Professor Peter Catapano
Chapter Twenty-Eight
- Key
Terms
and
Reading Questions
America in a
World War
(also included Isolationism and Internationalism, pp. 707- 717)
isolationism
internationalism
Neutrality Acts
Appeasement
Cash and Carry
"Lend-Lease"
Pearl Harbor
Allies and the Axis |
Holocaust
A. Philip Randolph
Japanese Internment
"Rosie the Riveter"
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hiroshima |
Reading and Discussion Questions:
1. How did Roosevelt manage to aid Great Britain in 1939 and 1940 in
various ways short of war?
2. Describe how the coming of World War II ended the Great
Depression. What region of the nation benefited most
spectacularly?.
3. How did the US react to the Holocaust? Why did the US not do
more to save the Jews from the Nazi extermination campaign?
4. What pressures led to the establishmen of the Fair Employment
Practices Commission (FEPC)?
5. How were Japanese- Americans treated during the war? What was
done to atone for the treatment?
6. Why did the US develop the atomic bomb? Why did they decide to
use it against Japan?