CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Professor Brinkley provides a concise overview of the strategies used by Americans to win the war, and then concentrates on the home front, The central controversy is, of course, the dropping of the atomic ‘bomb. Focus on a comparison question that requires students to reflect back to World War I and view the parallels and changes that made this war unique. With the exam looming near, students must begin to think in larger periods of time, and to consider America’s emergence as a world power as an evolution of many factors, both political and cultural. GUIDING QUESTIONS 1, “The United States decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second-World-War era rather than a strictly ‘military measure designed to force Japan’s unconditional surrender.” Evaluate this statement using documents and your knowledge of the diplomatic and military history of the years 1939-1947, (1988 A.P.U.S.H. document-based question) Note that this DBQ requires information from the next chapter, but it seems like this is an appropriate time to introduce it, and let it run for two chapters. 2. Compare and contrast America’s domestic response to World War I and World War II. 3. Compare and contrast the European and Pacific wars in terms of strategies, casualties, leaders, locations, effectiveness, and outcomes. 4. Compare and contrast the impact of the war on the many ethnic, gender, and racial groups in America, TERMS, CONCEPTS, NAMES General Douglas MacArthur Betty Grable Korematsu v. U:S., 1944 ‘Admiral Chester Nimitz “Swing era” “Doctor Win-the-War” Battle of Coral Sea Japanese Internment ‘Thomas E. Dewey Midway Island Henry J. Kaiser Harry S. Truman General George C. Marshall _Little Steel Formula Incendiary raid on Dresden General George S. Patton “No-strike pledge” D-Day Stalingrad Smith-Connally Act (War Labor General Dwight D. Eisenhower The Holocaust Disputes Act) Battle of the Bulge Congress of Racial Equality __Anti-Inflation Act VE Day (CORE) Office of Price Administration Iwo Jima “Code-talkers” War Production Board Kamikazes Braceros Fair Employment Practices ‘Manhattan Project Pachucos ‘Commission J. Robert Oppenheimer “Zoot suit riots” A. Philip Randolph Enola Gay “Rosie the Riveter” 84