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Main Points
Causes of War
U.S. Entry into Conflict
An Unstable World
Global Depression
New Countries in Europe (Inter)National Debt U.S., Japan, German Expansion No International Organizations
Border U.S. Neutrality Italy into Ethiopia 1935 1937: Italy, Germany & Japan signed Anti-Comintern Act, against Russia
German Expansion
1938 Nazis entered Austria
Sacrificed Czechoslovakia for
Peace with Hitler 1939 total invasion of Czech 1939 G-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact 1939 G-invaded Poland BR & FR declare war
U.S. Response
Slow and contradictory
1941 Lend-Lease to allies Military modernization Awareness of German expansion American embargo and quarantine
A Global War
European Theater
Pacific Theater War in Mediterranean, North Africa All of British possessions in India
A Total War
War Mobilization
Federal Control of the Economy Westward Shift of people and
Way of Life, freedom Censorship Only positive images http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=A4o0kVX7iNc&f eature=related
War Propaganda
Women in Industries
Industries vacated by soldiers Single & Married 45% of workers in shipbuilding
home front while men were away fighting High wages, freedom, enjoyment, personal pride
WAVES Challenge to gender roles and norms Womens freedom and independence
Gendered Propaganda
African Americans
Segregated Units
125,000 into San
Francisco & Oakland Housing & school shortages Segregation in schools increased
German Expansionism
Two fronts
Western Europe & France Russia Blitzkrieg and massive industrial output Air Raid on England Control of Northern Africa through Italy
Allied Successes
Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942
Pacific Success
Overturned J- Supremacy
Northern Africa Eisenhowers invasion
Hitler Weakens
Turned east and tried to invade
Russia Stalled for months, winter hit, millions died August 1942-February 1943 Hitler pulled out of Russia and lost momentum in war
2 million participated
Liberated Paris
Practices Commission
Zoot-Suit Riots
1940s LA
Death of a Mex. Am
youth Police arrested, convicted several for murder Anti-Mexican riots Stripped zoot-suiters
Japanese/American Internment
Executive Order 9066 on
February 19, 1942 110,000 relocated to War Relocation Camps 150,000 in Hawaii 1944 US Supreme Court supported it Over half were US citizens $1.6 billion in reparations
Bracero Program
1942-1964 1 yr contracts paid Over 4 million Some $ kept by govt Racism and economic
exclusion
Holocaust
Holocaust
Over
six Million killed in gas chambers & concentration camps Final Solution U.S. State Department had information Anti-Semitism in U.S
Stalin Atomic Testing Manhattan Project $2 billion = $20 billion today Trinity Test Site, NM
Post-War Situation
Japan Truman agreed to dropping two Atomic Bombs Hiroshima & Nagasaki, 1945 Nearly 120,000 died immediately USSR Roughly 25-35 million dead Fear of Germany Suspicion of the U.S. Control over eastern Europe
Continued
World Economy International Monetary Fund Investment, loans, economic growth World Politics
Significance
Ended the Great Depression
Migration to the American West New economic opportunities for Women
and People of Color Brief unity and ongoing racism Defeat of Nazis and crippled Germany Destroyed Europe U.S. and Soviet Union became superpowers