• textbook --> pp. 820 - 829.
• AMSCO --> pp.  527 - 529.

1. Explain how the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere reflected Japanese ambitions in Asia.
2. What was the historical significance of the Battle of Britain?
3. List the major factors that defined American neutrality between 1939 and 1941.
4. What issue motivated the initial steps toward American intervention in World War II?
5. Identify the issues that reflected continued American commitment to neutrality during 1940.
6. What was the historical significance of the Lend-Lease program?  What was the basis of the national debate regarding Lend-Lease?
7. Outline the provisions of the Atlantic Charter.  Explain its relevance to future American decisions regarding involvement in World War II.
8. Discuss the debate among historians regarding Roosevelt's "undeclared war" in the North Atlantic.
9. Briefly describe the political, economic, and military relations between Japan and the United States during 1941.  Explain the historical significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
10. Why were the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway so historically significant?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 829 - 838.
• AMSCO --> pp. 529 - 531.

1. What was the impact of World War II on the American family?
2. How did the federal government maintain the loyalty of American to the war effort?
3. What was the impact of World War II on the American economy?  Identify the federal agencies created to regulate the wartime economy.
4. Explain the purpose and the accomplishments of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.  What was the specific task of the Manhattan Project?
5. What impact did World War II have on the economies of the American South and West?
6. How were new opportunities created for women by the wartime economy?
7. Explain the justification for and the circumstances surrounding the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. 
8. What was the impact of the war on African-Americans and Native Americans?
9. Why were there racial and ethnic tensions in the United States during World War II?
10. Identify the candidates and indicate the outcome of the presidential election of 1944.

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 838 - 848.
• AMSCO --> pp. 531 - 537.

1. What was the historical significance of D-Day?
2. Describe the nature of Allied bombing raids over Germany and Japan between 1944 and 1945.
3. What were the major provisions of the decisions made by the Allies at the Yalta Conference?
4. Why was the Potsdam Declaration historically significant?
5. What factors influenced the American decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan?  Why was this such a controversial decision?
6. How did the Holocaust affect the conduct of the immediate post-war occupation of Germany?