Give Me Liberty Chapter 22 Review Questions

Why did most Americans support isolationism in the 1930s?

-WWI was a mistake

-1930's idea of Isolationism

-passed series of neutrality acts

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

-cash and carry

-FDR 3rd term

-Lend Lease Act 1941

-FDR announced US

would become arsenal of democracy providing Britain and china with military supplies

-December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

How did government, business, and labor work together to promote wartime production?

-FDR created agencies to lower unemployment from 14% to 2%.

-Gov built housing for war workers and turned civilian industries into war production

-Federal funds gave new energy manufacturing. created new industrial centers

-employers recognize union. union leaders wont strike

-mobilization of women power 1/3 of labor force. 350k auxiliary military units

-Patriotic assimilation

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

-to blacks freedom from fear meant an end to lynching

-to blacks freedom from want included doing away with discrimination in getting jobs

-to whites freedom was a possession to be defended

-to blacks and other freedom was a goal to be achieved

Explain how conservatives in Congress and business used the war efforts to attack the goals and legacy of the New Deal.

There was a hope that after WWII, that there would be united between New Dealers and conservatives. However, some conservatives held different views. In one conservative essay, it outlined how American imperialism (America as a dominant force) would make America abundant and prosperous. Also, a business leader argued that if American capitalism is acceptable because there could be a redistribution of economic resources and elimination of poverty. The ideas of imperialism and capitalism were not exactly the goals of the New Deal.

How did the war alter the lives of women on the home front, and what did different groups

think would happen after the war?

There was a hope that after WWII, that there would be united between New Dealers and conservatives. However, some conservatives held different views. In one conservative essay, it outlined how American imperialism (America as a dominant force) would make America abundant and prosperous. Also, a business leader argued that if American capitalism is acceptable because there could be a redistribution of economic resources and elimination of poverty. The ideas of imperialism and capitalism were not exactly the goals of the New Deal.

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?

blacks - discrimination with GI bill of rights and Second great migration

Indians - 25k served in army. code talkers. issued own declaration of war against axis powers. left reservations for jobs in war industries. reservations still did not share in wartime prosperity.

Japanese - viewed every Japanese person as a potential spy. Executive order 9066 February 1942. interment camps revealed how easily war can undermine basic freedoms

Mexican - Bracero program 1942 zoot suit riots of 1943

Explain how World War II promoted an awareness of the links between racism in the United

States and colonialism around the world.

-Gandhi wrote to FDR that allies fighting to make the world safe for freedom and democracy seemed meaningless if US and Britain were going to continue to exploit India and Africa as the negro problem at home

-although allied victory saved mankind from dictator control and slave labor disputes over the freedom of colonial peoples and non whites in US foretold more wars and social upheavals

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

1944 congress passed it. gave returning vets unemployment insurance, scholarships, pensions, low rate mortgage loans, and job training. by 1946 1 million vets were attending college and 4 million got home loans. Blacks were at the discrepancy of the local authority administering the bill

Describe how the decisions made at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 created the

framework for postwar U.S. economic and foreign policy.

-45 nations

-replace

-world bank

-international monetary fund