1. Review for WW II

2. Rise of Dictators FDR Stalin Hitler Mussolini Hirohito and Tojo
Manchuria
Appeasement
Hitler’s road to war (The Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Poland)
The Holocaust
Wansee Conference
Churchill
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Britain Neutrality Acts
Four Freedoms
Lend-Lease
America First
Pearl Harbor
Isolationism
League of Nations vs. Hitler and Japan
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression Pact

3. Home front Years of WW 2 (US involvement) Rationing
Economic mobilization
Office of Price Administration
Japanese internment
Korematsu v. the United States
Women and the war
Migration
Executive Order 8802
United Nations
Double V Campaign

4. European Theater of Operation
Axis Powers
Importance of Stalingrad
Operation Torch
Invasion of Sicily and Italy
Importance of the Normandy Invasion.
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Nuremberg Trials

5. Pacific Theater of Operations
Turning point of the Pacific War
Island Hopping
Truman and the Bomb
Einstein and the bomb
Manhattan Project
Tokyo Trials

6. Technology
OSRD
Sonar
Radar
X-ray
Manhattan Project

7. Essay Question Bring a notecard with an outline for this question:
Did Truman make the right decision to drop the bomb on Japan? Give reasons for and against his decision. The final paragraph should be your opinion. All opinion should be based on fact.