Units 12:World War II
Totalitarianism: Fascism & Communism
American Neutrality, 1939-1941
Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937
Cash & Carry Policy, 1939
Lend-Lease Act 1941
U.S. declaration of war after the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan, 1941
World War 2 begins, 1939
Changes on the American Home Front
Office of Price Administration fixed priced & created ration books to save resources
Office of War Information directed press, print, radio, & film propaganda
War Production Board directed U.S. industry
Mobilization for war
Changes on the American Home Front
Impact on women, African Americans, Japanese Americans
Unit 13:The Cold War & 1950s
Post War Foreign Policy•United Nations •Israel, Japan, & Germany•Cold War:
Democracy & Capitalism vs. Communism
•Yalta & Potsdam Conferences
•Soviet Satellites•Iron Curtain
•Containment• Truman Doctrine• Marshall Plan • NATO
• Berlin Airlift
•Arms Race (Hydrogen Bomb)•“New Look”: ICBMs, CIA,
Massive Retaliation & Brinksmanship
•Red Scare, McCarthyism, Loyalty Review Board, HUAC
•Spies: Alger Hiss, Rosenbergs
The “Affluent Society”