• Outline the tensions within the Grand Alliance, the strategies used to win the war in Europe and the Pacific, and the key turning points in both military theaters.

• Describe the United States' economic and psychological mobilization for war, and the impact of that mobilization on the overall economy, labor, farmers, businesses, and various regions.

• Discuss the mobilization of science during the war, and the impact of both Allied and Axis technological advances on military strategy and the experiences of troops and civilians.

• Summarize the effects of the war on the home front, paying particular attention to the experiences of women, African Americans, Japanese Americans, and members of other minority groups.

• Explain U.S. responses to the Holocaust, and the impact of the war on domestic politics.

1941 FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech.

Fair Employment Practices Committee established.

1942 Japanese occupy Manila.

United States interns Japanese Americans.

Doolittle raid.

OPA freezes prices.

Battle of the Coral Sea.

Battle of Midway.

Steel strike leads NWLB to impose Little Steel formula.

British and Americans launch bombing offensive against Germany.

Darlan affair.

1942–43 Operation Torch.

Battle of Guadalcanal.

1943 Casablanca Conference.

Germans lose battle of Stalingrad.

Congress repeals the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Wildcat strikes.

Detroit race riots.

"Zoot Suit" riots.

Mussolini resigns; Badoglio government surrenders.

Invasion of Italy.

Teheran Conference.

1944 War Refugee Board created.

Liberation of Rome.

Allies launch cross-channel invasion of Normandy.

Allies free Paris.

Hitler launches V-1 and V-2 rockets against London.

Battle of Saipan.

MacArthur returns to the Philippines.

Japanese launch kamikaze attacks.

Congress passes G.I. Bill of Rights.

FDR wins fourth term.

Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma.

1944–45 Battle of the Bulge.

1945 Firebombing of Dresden.

Americans and Russians meet at the Elbe.

Germany surrenders.