Chapter Questions
Why did most Americans support isolationism in the 1930 ??
What factors after 1939 led to U.S. involvement in World War II?
How did government, business, and labor work together to promote wartime production, and how did the war affect each group?
Describe the impact of federal defense spending on the West Coast and the South.
Explain how conservatives in Congress and business used the war effort to attack the goals and legacy of the New Deal.
How did the war alter the lives of women on the home front?
How did a war fought to bring "essential human freedoms" to the world fail to protect the home-front liberties of blacks, Indians, Japanese-Americans, and Mexican-Americans?
Explain how World War II promoted an awareness of the links between racism in the United States and colonialism around the world.
What was the impact of the GI Bill of Rights on American society, including minorities?
Describe how the decisions made at the Bretton Woods conference in r944 created the framework for postwar U.S. economic and foreign policy.