HY 121 Final Study Guide
Roosevelt's Four Freedom - correct answer ✔✔- Spoken by Roosevelt at his State of the Union address in
1941. Favorite statement of the allied aims. Compared them to Magna Carta, Emancipation
Proclamation.
- Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear
- Illustrated by magazine illustrator Norman Rockwell. He linked them to traditional American values.
Translated Four Freedoms into small town American livings.
- Paintings first appeared in Saturday Evening Post in early 1943
- embodied "the rights of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live" and made clear "the
crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today."
Rosie the Riveter - correct answer ✔✔- symbol of American women who went to work in factories
during the WWII (1944)
- depicted as muscular and self reliant by Norman Rockwell
- New opportunities for women opened up though most still worked clerical jobs
- many women hoped to remain in the labor force when peace returned
- Eventually Rosita the Riveter took her place alongside Rosie to represent Mexican-Americans
Hitler's Final Solution/Holocaust - correct answer ✔✔Who: Adolf Hitler
What: Culmination of Nazi belief that Germans were the master race, destined to rule the world. Mass
extermination of undesirable people. Slaves, gypsies, homosexuals, and Jews. 6 million died in death
camps.
When: 1945
Where: German concentration camps
GI Bill of Rights - correct answer ✔✔- The 1944 legislation that provided money for education and other
benefits to military personnel returning from World War II
- "Servicemen's Readjustment Act"
, - Aimed to reward members of the military for their service and prevent widespread unemployment and
economic disruption
- 1946 - more than 1 mil vets in college
- almost 4 million receive home mortgages, spurring postwar housing boom
American Indians during WWII - correct answer ✔✔some 25,000 served in the army. Insisting that the
U.S. lacked the authority to draft Indian men into the army,
- the Iroquois issued their own declaration of war against the Axis Powers
- Thousands left reservations for jobs in war industries. many did not return to the reservations. some
took advantage of the GI bill. (the opportunity wasn't available to many earlier)
U.S. Propoganda on Japanese - correct answer ✔✔- Depicted American's as self-indulgent people
contaminated by ethnic and racial diversity as opposed to the racially "pure" Japanese.
- Prejudice remained against Japan because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. American's viewed Japanese
ethnicity as a potential spy.
Japanese-American Internment - correct answer ✔✔- Roosevelt signed a document Feb. 19,1942 stating
that all people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona,
needed to be removed
- Put them in internment camps because of their fear for another attack by the Japanese
- Removed more than 110,000 people
- did not apply to Hawaii
- provided truth to Japanese claim that it's aggression in Asia were to protect the rights of non-white
people and against the racist US
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - correct answer ✔✔- August 6, 1945 (over Hiroshima) dropped and
killed almost 70,000
- at least 140,000 died in relation to radiation
- August 9, 1945 (over Nagasaki) killed 70,000
- Japan surrendered within a week
- the use of bombs remains controversial
Roosevelt's Four Freedom - correct answer ✔✔- Spoken by Roosevelt at his State of the Union address in
1941. Favorite statement of the allied aims. Compared them to Magna Carta, Emancipation
Proclamation.
- Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear
- Illustrated by magazine illustrator Norman Rockwell. He linked them to traditional American values.
Translated Four Freedoms into small town American livings.
- Paintings first appeared in Saturday Evening Post in early 1943
- embodied "the rights of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live" and made clear "the
crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today."
Rosie the Riveter - correct answer ✔✔- symbol of American women who went to work in factories
during the WWII (1944)
- depicted as muscular and self reliant by Norman Rockwell
- New opportunities for women opened up though most still worked clerical jobs
- many women hoped to remain in the labor force when peace returned
- Eventually Rosita the Riveter took her place alongside Rosie to represent Mexican-Americans
Hitler's Final Solution/Holocaust - correct answer ✔✔Who: Adolf Hitler
What: Culmination of Nazi belief that Germans were the master race, destined to rule the world. Mass
extermination of undesirable people. Slaves, gypsies, homosexuals, and Jews. 6 million died in death
camps.
When: 1945
Where: German concentration camps
GI Bill of Rights - correct answer ✔✔- The 1944 legislation that provided money for education and other
benefits to military personnel returning from World War II
- "Servicemen's Readjustment Act"
, - Aimed to reward members of the military for their service and prevent widespread unemployment and
economic disruption
- 1946 - more than 1 mil vets in college
- almost 4 million receive home mortgages, spurring postwar housing boom
American Indians during WWII - correct answer ✔✔some 25,000 served in the army. Insisting that the
U.S. lacked the authority to draft Indian men into the army,
- the Iroquois issued their own declaration of war against the Axis Powers
- Thousands left reservations for jobs in war industries. many did not return to the reservations. some
took advantage of the GI bill. (the opportunity wasn't available to many earlier)
U.S. Propoganda on Japanese - correct answer ✔✔- Depicted American's as self-indulgent people
contaminated by ethnic and racial diversity as opposed to the racially "pure" Japanese.
- Prejudice remained against Japan because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. American's viewed Japanese
ethnicity as a potential spy.
Japanese-American Internment - correct answer ✔✔- Roosevelt signed a document Feb. 19,1942 stating
that all people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona,
needed to be removed
- Put them in internment camps because of their fear for another attack by the Japanese
- Removed more than 110,000 people
- did not apply to Hawaii
- provided truth to Japanese claim that it's aggression in Asia were to protect the rights of non-white
people and against the racist US
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - correct answer ✔✔- August 6, 1945 (over Hiroshima) dropped and
killed almost 70,000
- at least 140,000 died in relation to radiation
- August 9, 1945 (over Nagasaki) killed 70,000
- Japan surrendered within a week
- the use of bombs remains controversial
