1939-1945 World War II

Good Neighbor Policy? Officially recognized the Soviet Union (1933) Pan-American Conference Tydings-McDuffie Act

The Line-Up Benito Mussolini (Italy) Adolf Hitler (Germany) Hirohito (emperor) and Tojo (military leader) - Japan Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)

U. S. Response NO MORE WAR! Nye Committee Neutrality Acts (1935-1937) Ludlow Amendment Quarantine Speech (1937)

Symbolic Gestures Summer Olympics in Berlin (1936) Japanese Jesse Owens Japanese Refused to recognized Japanese controlled Manchuria boycott on Japanese silk and eventually other products as well

Hitler at Full Steam! End of Munich Pact Czechoslovakia Poland Non-aggression pact with Soviet Union

The Jewish Problem Nuremberg Laws (1935) Kristallnacht (1938) Final Solution 60,00 Jewish refugees came to the U.S. between 1933-1938

Beginning of the War September 1, 1939 - Poland FDR revised Neutrality Act (cash and carry) The list of countries under Germany control Fall of France Battle of Britain

Election of 1940 Third term for FDR Republicans- Wendell Willkie Much too busy to campaign Lend-lease America First Committee

Isolation to Intervention Send Guns not Sons Occupation of Finland and Iceland Atlantic Charter Response to German submarines Shoot Axis vessels near U.S. on sight

Pearl Harbor Economic war on Japan Japan’s response was to attack December 7, 1941 “a day that will live in infamy” Dec. 8 war is declared

Homefront Mobilizing for war (blue pg 833-834/yellow 873-874) War Economy (blue pg 837-838/yellow 874-876) Science and War (blue 851/yellow 876-877) Propaganda (yellow 877-878/posters) Japanese Internment (blue pg 830-831/yellow 887) Education (yellow 879-880) Women and Family (blue 833/yellow 880-882) African Americans (yellow 879/yellow 882-884) Other Minorities (Native Americans, Mexicans, Jews) (yellow 884-886)

Europe Battlefront Focus first on defeating Germany Operation Torch Eisenhower Africa Invasion of Sicily and Italy Italy surrendered in 1943 but fighting continued

Conferences Casablanca, Morocco (1943) Tehran, Iran (1943) FDR, Churchill and Stalin French invasion plan German zones of occupation

European Battlefront Russia D-Day Battle of the Bulge Stalingrad Tide had turned D-Day Invasion of France Response to Tehran Conference Battle of the Bulge

D-Day

Pacific Battlefront Battle in the Philippines Battle of Midway (1942) General Douglas MacArthur Leap-frogging By 1944, they were in bombing range of Japan

Election of 1944 Democrats re-elect FDR but change VP Republicans nominate Thomas E. Dewey Unprecedented 4th term

1945!!! Yalta Conference Defeat of Germany End of FDR’s reign Pinched from both sides April 30 - suicide May 8 - V-E Day End of FDR’s reign Cerebral hemorrhage (4/12)

End of Japan Iwo Jima and Okinawa Potsdam Ultimatum to Japan Atomic bombs August 14, Japan has had enough