APUSH Chapter 38 Essay Questions

1. How did World War II affect

1. the role of the national government in American life?
2. the relationship between government and the economy?
3. minority groups in America?

0. Present both pro and con arguments for using the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. If it had been your decision, what would you have done? Why?
1. What are the pro and con arguments for the Japanese-American relocation camps used in World War II? Do you agree with the text’s authors that these camps were "unnecessary and unfair"? Why or why not?
2. Summarize the grand strategy of the Big Three allies in World War II. What aspect of that strategy became controversial? Why?
3. Explain why America’s participation in World War II never really became an idealistic crusade in the mold of World War I.
4. List at least three major turning points of World War II. Explain why you chose these three.
5. In terms of defending America’s national interests, which do you think was the most critical front in World War II, the European theater or the Pacific? Why?
6. Why, with major wars in Europe and the Pacific, did American troops see their first active combat in World War II in North Africa? What were the strategic objectives of that campaign?
7. In what ways did the United States emerge from World War II fundamentally different from how it entered the conflict? Consider

1. national power.
2. economic health.
3. the home front.