REVIEW & RELATE

1. How did American public opinion shape Roosevelt’s foreign policy in the years preceding U.S. entry into World War II?

2. What events in Europe and the Pacific ultimately brought the United States into World War II?

3. How did the war accelerate the trend that began during the New Deal toward increased government participation in the economy?

4. How did the war affect life on the home front for the average American?

5. What new challenges and opportunities did the war present to minority groups?

6. Why were Japanese Americans singled out as a particular threat to national security?

7. How did the Allies win the war in Europe and in the Pacific, and how did tensions among them shape their military strategy and postwar plans?

8. Why did the United States fail to do more to help victims of the Holocaust?