HIST 102: Chapter 22 Reading Guide

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II

Instructions

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Review Question 1

On Page 679, (Under the "Isolationism" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "To most Americans..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Why did most Americans support isolationism in the 1930s?

Review Question 2

On Page 681, (Under the ""America First" and Lend-Lease" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "As the United..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What factors after 1939 led to U.S. involvement in World War II?

Review Question 3

On Page 686, (Under the "Mobilizing for War" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "By the end..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did government, business, and labor work together to promote wartime production? How did the war affect each group?

Review Question 4

On Page 688, (Under the "Fighting for the Four Freedoms" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Talk of freedom..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did different groups understand or experience the Four Freedoms differently?

Review Question 6

On Page 689, (Under the "Women at Work" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "During the war..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did the war alter the lives of women on the home front, and what did different groups think would happen after the war?

Review Question 9

On Page 691, (Under the ""The Way of Life of Free Men"" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "But in 1944..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What was the impact of the GI Bill of Rights on American society, including minorities?

Review Question 7

On Page 692, (Under the "THE AMERICAN DILEMMA" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The unprecedented attention..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did a war fought to bring "essential human free-doms" to the world fail to protect the home front liberties of Blacks, Indians, Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans?

Review Question 8

On Page 705, (Under the "Black Internationalism" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "In the nineteenth..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Explain how World War II promoted an awareness of the links between racism in the United States and colo-nialism around the world.

Review Question 10

On Page 709, (Under the "Yalta and Bretton Woods" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "A meeting of..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Describe how the decisions made at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 created the framework for post-war U.S. economic and foreign policy.