904 ★ CHAPTER 22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II
- Explain how conservatives in Congress and business used the war effort to attack the goals
and legacy 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 to the status of women after the war? - 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? - Explain how World War II promoted an awareness of the links between racism in the
United States and colonialism around the world. - What was the impact of the GI Bill of Rights on American society, including minorities?
- Describe how the decisions made at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 created the
framework for postwar U.S. economic and foreign policy.
Four Freedoms (p. 861)
Good Neighbor Policy (p. 864)
isolationism (p. 866)
Neutrality Acts (p. 866)
Lend-Lease Act (p. 868)
Axis powers (p. 869)
D-Day (p. 871)
Holocaust (p. 873)
GI Bill of Rights (p. 882)
bracero program (p. 886)
zoot suit riots (p. 887)
Japanese-American internment
(p. 891)Korematsu v. United States (p. 892)
second Great Migration (p. 893)
double-V (p. 895)
V-E Day (p. 898)
Manhattan Project (p. 899)
Potsdam conference (p. 900)
Yalta conference (p. 901)
Bretton Woods conference (p. 901)
United Nations (p. 902)
Atlantic Charter (p. 902)KEY TERMS
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