Winning the War
How Americans understood the war
- Americans viewed the war as a fight for the survival of freedom and democracy against fascist and militarist ideologies. This perspective was later reinforced by revelations about Japanese wartime atrocities, Nazi concentration camps, and the Holocaust.
- Viewed... as reports the understanding; later reinforced by revelations dates when the evidence arrived.
- So the CED distinguishes what people believed at the time from what confirmed it afterwards — a precise historical move.
'This perspective was later reinforced by revelations' shows the CED is...
It separates belief at the time from later confirmation.
Military service, and the same limit
- Military service provided opportunities for women and minorities to improve their socioeconomic positions for the war's duration, while also leading to debates over racial segregation.
- The CED repeats 7.12's sentence with military service in place of mobilisation.
- So the same claim holds in uniform and in the factory, including the same qualifier and the same resulting debate.
Select all four causes of victory the CED names.
The CED names servicemen and women together.
Four causes of victory, and two campaigns
- The United States and its allies achieved military victory through Allied cooperation, technological and scientific advances, the contributions of servicemen and women, and campaigns such as Pacific "island-hopping" and the D-Day invasion.
- Four causes, and the CED names servicemen and women together — the contribution is not gendered in its sentence.
- Two campaigns are given as examples, one in each theatre.
How the war was understood, a cause of victory, or a consequence?
Sort each element of the Allied victory.
Select both things the CED says about the atomic bombs.
The CED does not adjudicate the debate.
The CED separates what Americans believed at the time from what confirmed it afterwards. They viewed the war as a fight for the survival of freedom and democracy, and that perspective was later reinforced by revelations about atrocities and the Holocaust — a precise historical distinction worth reproducing.
The CED repeats 7.12's opportunity sentence with 'military service' in place of 'mobilisation'.
The same claim holds in uniform and in the factory.
The atomic bombs, and a debate
- The use of atomic bombs hastened the end of the war and sparked debates about the morality of using atomic weapons.
- Hastened and sparked debates are both in the CED's sentence, and the CED does not adjudicate the debate.
- So an answer should record the military effect and the moral argument, in that order, without resolving the second.
Record the military effect and the moral argument, without ____ the second.
The CED leaves the debate open.
Causes and effects of victory
- The objective is the causes and effects of the victory of the United States and its allies over the Axis powers.
- Causes: cooperation, technology and science, servicemen and women, campaigns, and the atomic bombs.
- Effects: 7.14's emergence as the most powerful nation, and a moral debate that outlived the war.
A belief held before the evidence arrives is not the same kind of thing as a conclusion drawn from it. Recording which one you mean is the difference between a history and a summary.
Americans viewed the war as a fight for the survival of freedom and democracy against fascist and militarist ideologies. This perspective was later reinforced by revelations about Japanese wartime atrocities, Nazi concentration camps, and the Holocaust. Military service provided opportunities for women and minorities... for the war's duration, while also leading to debates over racial segregation. Victory came through Allied cooperation, technological and scientific advances, the contributions of servicemen and women, and campaigns such as Pacific "island-hopping" and the D-Day invasion, and the use of atomic bombs hastened the end of the war and sparked debates about the morality of using atomic weapons.