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”