Before the bell rings Put WS p. 245-248 in basket. Put Extra Credit answers in basket. Get a sheet of paper out and a pen/pencil. If you did not finish yesterday’s 2 question assignment, get it out as well.

EXTRA CREDIT write answers in complete sentences Why were the buffalo important to the Plains Indians? Why were the Plains Indians nomadic? What is significant about the Battle of the Little Bighorn? Describe the Gilded Age. Give an example of horizontal integration. How do nativist feel about immigrants?

FDR ABANDONS ISOLATIONISM America Enters the War FDR ABANDONS ISOLATIONISM

FDR’s early take on WWII Delivered Quarantine Speech War is a disease avoid it because it is deadly Instead of war, sign peace agreements Quarantine (isolate) aggressive nations Connected to America’s traditional isolation and neutrality

Neutrality Acts attempts at avoiding US involvement in WWII revised US involvement in 1939 allowed FDR to sell goods and weapons to nations paid cash and transported the goods themselves this helped the Allies and violated true neutrality but Germany was winning and we had to do something

FDR Moves Toward War After his re-election (3rd term) FDR pushed for war FDR delivered his Four Freedom’s Speech suggested the only way Americans could keep their: freedom of speech freedom of worship freedom from want freedom from fear was to help Britain combat Nazi Germany and Japanese militarism

Lend-Lease Act US plan to sell, lease or lend defense materials to Allies economic declaration of war against Axis Powers violated neutrality In response Germany starts to attack merchant ships delivering these war materials to Britain using U- Boats BIG IDEA: …America is practically fighting in World War II with dollars not bullets

Pearl harbor (“A day that will live in infamy”) Japan relied on the US for natural resources (specifically oil) US ended trade (place embargo) with Japan… negotiations were unsuccessful In response, General Hideki Tojo sent troops to bomb the US military base of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 a surprise attack 2,500 killed Disabled the base and supplies for six months FDR asked Congress to declare war and America enters the war with the Allies

EFFECTS OF PEARL HARBOR US starts to restrict the rights of Japanese living in America because they were seen as disloyal Government starts to detain Japanese- Americans in internment camps (temporary imprisonment) Korematsu vs. US upheld the governments ability to use internment camps against citizens during times of war

America Mobilizes (Prepares for War) Huge patriotism following Pearl Harbor Attack People enlisted, gave blood, volunteered People bought war bonds to fund the war, connected to victory Women’s Army Corps (WACs): gave army jobs to women - nurses, clerical work, typists, truck drivers, etc Rosie the Riveter became symbolic for women to show their war efforts making war materials women had to step aside when men came back from war

AMERICA MOBILIZES War Production Board: oversaw the transition of peacetime industries to war time industries in America Ford made planes not cars Other government agencies were created to distribute scarce resources, create patriotism Rationing: Americans were issued coupon books that limited the amount of certain goods they could buy

Propaganda or Patriotism?