US in WW2 reading

[Ms. Butler]

the attached reading is to supplement your presentations--this is what EVERYONE is expected to know. we will have a quiz on the homefront & beginning of the war next week.  A map quiz on europe & asia next week too.  we can talk about contemporary v. ww2 era map & set date when you are in class. The week after we will have an exam--mc & essay & move on to the cold war topic. 

according to IB, this is what you need to be prepared to write about for this topic (It is on paper 3)

I will send you practice IB questions separately

5. The Second World War and the Americas 1933-45

• Hemispheric reactions to the events in Europe: inter-American diplomacy; cooperation and neutrality; Franklin D Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy, its application and effects

• The diplomatic and/or military role of two countries in the Second World War 

• Treatment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians 

• Reaction to the Holocaust in the Americas 

• Impact of technological developments and the beginning of the atomic age

• Economic and diplomatic effects of the Second World War in one country of the Americas