WW2 and the Cold War

Topics to be Covered during this Unit

Read pages 685-691and 715-719 How the War Started and Wartime production

Read pages 731-736 and 726-729 Women in the Labor Force and Discrimination during the War

Japanese Internment (web-based assignment)

Read pages 700-705 Victory in the Pacific – Bombing of Japan

Read pages 741-746 The Cold War Begins

Read pages 756-761 The Korean War

Round Robin Reading on Major Events of the Cold War– Berlin Airlift, HUAC, Rosenberg Trial, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis

Questions we will Answer during this Unit

1. Explain the effects of World War 2 on Americans at home using two or three groups of people as examples.

Questions to think about when writing this essay: 

What major changes occurred in the US during the War?  What groups of people were most affected by wartime changes and how?  What were the causes and effects of these changes?

2.  Explain the effects of the Cold War on Americans at home as well as America’s relationships with other countries using two to three major examples. 

Questions to think about when writing this essay:

What were the causes of the Cold War?  What events occurred because of the Cold War?  What institutions were a direct result of the Cold War?  How did Americans react to the Communist threat?