WORLD WAR II:  HOME FRONT
Questions/Thinking Points
Terms

Washington Naval Conferences
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Senator Gerald Nye
Neutrality Laws 1935, 1937, 1939)
America First Committee
Charles Lindbergh
Burke-Wadsworth Act
Election of 1940
Wendell Willkie
arsenal of democracy
Lend-Lease Act
U. S. S. Reuben James
War Production Board (WPB)
Office of Price Administration (OPA
rationing
Office of Civilian Defense (OCD)
National War Labor Board (NWLB)
No Strike Pledge
Office of War Information (OWI)
WAC
WAVE
"Rosie the Riveter"
A. Philip Randolph
Executive Order 8802
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Double V Campaign
race riots
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Gunnar Myrdal
zoot suit riots
the Holcaust
death camps
Henry Morgenthau

Japanese-Americans
Executive Order 9066
War Relocation Authority (WRA)
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Korematsu v. U. S.
John L. Lewis
coal miners' strike
"wildcat" strikes
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
"dollar-a-year" men
Montgomery Wards
Sewell Avery
maintenance of membership clause
Election of 1944
Sidney Hillman
CIO-PAC
Henry Wallace
Harry S. Truman
G. I. Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustmen Act)
Veterans' Administration
Smith v. Allwright
Tuskegee Airmen
United Nations
Dumbarton Oaks conference
San Francisco conference
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Conference
V-J Day

1.  How did the United States try to avoid war in the 1920s?
2.  What was the Nye Committee, and what conclusions did it reach as to the causes of World War I?
3.  How were the Neutrality Laws a reflection of the Nye Committee's conclusions?
4.  What was the American First Comittee, and what positions did it take with respect to U. S. invovlement in a war?
5.  What actions did FDR take in 1940-41 to increase U. S. preparedness for war?
6.  How did FDR mobilize the economy and the home front after Pearl Harbor?
7.  What were the issues and outcome of the Election fo 1940?
8.  What happened to organized labor during the defense buildup and the first years of the war?
9.  What kinds of changes did ordinary Americans experience during World War II?
10.  How did women participate in the war effort?
11.  How did African-American strategies in World War II differ from the previous war?
12.  What factors drew more Mexican-Americans into the war effort?
13.  What were some examples of the tensions caused by social change during the war?
14.  How did the U. S. initially respond to perseuction of the Jews in Nazi Germany?  How and why did this change?
15.  What was the justification for relocating Japanese-Americans?  How did the Supreme Court rule on this matter?  How did Japanese-Americans themselves respond?
16.  How did actions taken by labor unions and war workers prompt congressional restructions on labor activities during the war?
17.  How did World War II transform the reputation of business and businessmen in America?
18.  What were some of the issues and outcome of the Election of 1944?
19.  What was the G. I. Bill?
20.  What was the significance of Smith v. Allwright?
21.  How did attitudes towards African Americans in combats change and why?
22.  Why did the Allied leaders back a plan for a United Nations?  What concrete actions did they take during the war to realize this plan?
23.  What moral and ethical questions were raised concerning the use of atomic weapons against Japan?