WWII Unit 9
FRQ (Free Response Question) Preparation
Directions: These are writing prompts to guide your studying for the FRQ portion of your test. They may or may not be worded exactly like this, but these are the concepts you will be required to write about.
1. What effect did World War II have on the lives of women and African Americans?
2. What opportunities, adjustments, and tensions did the war create for Americans? Do you think most of the changes were positive for American society?
3. How did mobilizing for the war transform American society? What were some short-term and long-term effects of this mobilization?
4. How did the United States succeed in defeating Japan? Do you think this defeat could have been accomplished in any other way?
Directions: These are writing prompts to guide your studying for the FRQ portion of your test. They may or may not be worded exactly like this, but these are the concepts you will be required to write about.
1. What effect did World War II have on the lives of women and African Americans?
2. What opportunities, adjustments, and tensions did the war create for Americans? Do you think most of the changes were positive for American society?
3. How did mobilizing for the war transform American society? What were some short-term and long-term effects of this mobilization?
4. How did the United States succeed in defeating Japan? Do you think this defeat could have been accomplished in any other way?
Lend-Lease Act
Selective Service Act Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor Winston Churchill George Marshall Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC) A. Philip Randolph Manhattan Project Office of Price Administration (OPA) War Production Board (WPB) rationing Dwight D. Eisenhower D-Day Battle of the Bulge V-E Day Harry S. Truman |
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz Battle of Midway kamikaze J. Robert Oppenheimer Hiroshima Nagasaki Nuremberg trials GI Bill of Rights James Farmer Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Zoot suit riots Detroit riots internment Japanese American Citizens League Fred Korematsu |