Civilisation des Etats-Unis 11c: World Wars Prof. Sämi LUDWIG
World War II: 1933 inauguration: “the policy of the good neighbor”... but conservative State Department organizes overthrow of liberal government of Cuba by military dictator Fulgenico Batista 1938 “permanent” Neutrality Act in Spanish Civil War ( ) 1940 FDR’s 2nd re-election: “Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
1941 U.S.S. Augusta in Argentina Bay, Newfoundland: secret meetings with Winston Churchill (American mother) → special relations! “Atlantic Charter” to support English through “lease and lend”: - increase from $7 to $50 billion - credit for war supplies - $16 billion for American defense (preparation?)
Pearl Harbor: December 7th, 1941, 7:50, Sunday morning General Tojo
Japanese Internment Camps “Relocation Centers” for Japanese Americans John Okada: No-No Boy
1942 War Production Board; Office of War Mobilization ship building: Victory ships Detroit: tanks, trucks B-29 bombers, build “military-industrial complex” 1942 War Labor Board against strikes ⇒ avoid labor battles union membership 1940: 9’000’ : 15’000’000 “Rosie the riveter”
1943 Teheran conference (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt) “Uncle Joe”
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Supreme Allied Commander of the West” 1943 city bombings: Hamburg, Dresden (“Bomber Harris”) D-Day, June 6, 1944, Normandy Battle of the Bulge
1945 Yalta conference, then FDR dies Harry S. Truman becomes president 1945 Potsdam conference
Pacific theater → General Douglas MacArthur 1942 Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal “island hopping” Philippines back, etc. - Battle of Iwo Jima
Tokyo bombed, Kamikaze attacks - June 1945 Battle of Okinawa: 110’000 Japanese, 49’000 Americans die Manhattan Project Albert Einstein’s letter to FDR in 1939 Roy Oppenheim, Berkeley New Mexico July 16, 1945 Vice President Truman not informed August 6, 1945: Hiroshima August 9, 1945: Nagasaki August 14, unconditional surrender peace treaty on Missouri in Tokyo Bay - keep Emperor
the carrier of “Fat Boy”