AP History Students should be able to explain:

1. Events leading to the war with Japan.

2. The effect of World War II on the American economy.

3. The impact of World War II on ethnic and racial minorities.

4. Why the Japanese-Americans were interned.

5. The changes experienced by women during the war.

6. The reasons for the decision to concentrate on the defeat of Germany first.

7. American strategy in the Pacific.

8. The controversy surrounding Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb.

9. Points of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Define the following:

1. “economic czar”
2. payroll-deduction
3. collaborationist
4. “zoot suit”
5. kamikazes
6. island hopping

Describe the following:

7. Ex parte Endo
8. Afrika Korps
9. D-Day
10. Battle of the Bulge
11. Iwo Jima
12. Enola Gay
13. Hiroshima
14. Potsdam/Yalta Conferences

Identify the following:

15. James F. Byrnes
16. A. Philip Randolph
17. Charles de Gaulle
18. Erwin Rommel
19. Henry A. Wallace
20. Joseph Stalin
21. Winston Churchill