APUSH Pre-reading Notes (SQ3R method)

DIRECTIONS: Follow the steps outlined in the left margin as you preread the chapter. Write your answers in the lined area of the page. 1. Write down the chapter title and FDR and the Shadow of War the dates the chapter covers. 2. Read the opening quote. What do This quote means that there is not you think this means? enough discipline in the world. People like Hitler are doing whatever they want. 3. Skim the entire chapter. Look at each graph, map, and picture and read the caption. How many of each? 4. Skim the entire chapter and read all headings. List them here Graphs:1 Pictures:11 The London Conference Freedom from the Filipinos and Recognition for the Russians Becoming a Good Neighbour Sec. Hulls Reciprocal Trade Agreements Storm Cellar Isolationism Congress Legislates Neutrality America Dooms Loyalist Spain Appeasing Japan and Germany The chapter will be about how US is involved with the rest of the world before entering WW2. Why did Japan choose Pearl Harbor? Maps:2

Hitlers Belligerency and US Neutrality The Fall of France Bolstering Britain with the Destroyer Deal FDR Shatters the Two Term Tradition Congress Passes the Landmark Lend Lease Law Hitlers Assault on the Soviet Union Spawns the Atlantic Charter US Destroyers and Hitlers U boats Clash Surprise Assault on Peral Harbor

5. Predict what you think this chapter will be about. 6. Write down any questions you have at this point.

7. Read the entire first paragraph; summarize it in a few sentences. Make sure you get the main point (This will probably be the main idea for the whole chapter).

War was inevitable for the US. They tried to stay away but Europe was calling the US to join the war.