Table of Contents
Dedication 1
Introduction 2
1 What you will study 2
2 How you will be assessed 3
3 About this book 6
Chapter 1 The Americas from peace to the Depression 1919-32 9
1 US involvement and isolation 9
2 The USA and the global economy in the 1920s 12
Examination practice 16
Chapter 2 Hemispheric reactions to the events in Europe and Asia 1933-41 17
1 US foreign policy in the 1930s: the 'Good Neighbor' policy 17
2 The USA's policy of neutrality 22
3 The USA and Japan in the 1930s 29
4 Key debate: To what extent was Roosevelt's foreign policy isolationist during the 1930s? 33
5 The US response to the European war 1939-40 35
6 The 1940 presidential election 39
7 The US Navy 46
Examination advice 49
Examination practice 51
Chapter 3 The military role of the USA during the Second World War 52
1 The USA and Japan 1939-41 52
2 The USA and the Pacific War 58
3 Key debate: Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb? 65
4 The USA and the war against Hitler 69
Examination advice 82
Examination practice 84
Chapter 4 The diplomatic role of the USA in the Second World War 1941-5 85
1 The first Allied conferences: Washington 1941 to Quebec 1943 85
2 The Tehran Conference and its aftermath 91
3 The Yalta Conference, 4-11 February 1945 95
4 The Potsdam Conference, 17 July to 2 August 1945 100
5 US-Latin American relations during the Second World War 104
Examination advice 106
Examination practice 109
Chapter 5 The military and diplomatic role of Canada and Brazil in the Second World War 110
1 Canada's military role in the Second World War I 110
2 Canada's diplomatic role in the Second World War I 117
3 Brazil, Mexico and Argentina's role in the Second World War 121
Examination practice 126
Chapter 6 The social impact of the Second World War on the USA 127
1 The impact of the war on Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians 127
2 The impact of the war on other minority groups 134
3 The impact of the war on women 140
4 The impact of the war on African Americans 144
5 The impact of the war on civil rights 151
6 The impact of the war on everyday life 154
Examination advice 157
Examination practice 160
Chapter 7 Reaction to the Holocaust in the Americas 161
1 The US reaction to Nazi anti-Jewish policies during the 1930s 161
2 The SS St Louis case 166
3 The US reaction to Nazi policies during the war 168
4 Key debate: To what extent did Roosevelt attempt to save European Jews during the Second World War? 178
5 Latin America, Canada and the Holocaust 181
Examination practice 186
Chapter 8 Technological developments and the beginning of the atomic age 187
1 The impact of the war on military technology 187
2 The war and changes in US industry and technology 196
3 Medicine and the war 200
Examination practice 202
Chapter 9 The economic and diplomatic effects of the Second World War on the Americas 203
1 The economic effects of the Second World War on the USA 203
2 The problems of the US economy after 1945 209
3 US and Soviet relations during the war 213
4 Brazil and the Second World War 218
5 Canada and the Second World War 221
Examination advice 226
Examination practice 228
Timeline 229
Glossary 231
Further reading 237
Internal assessment 240
Index 241
