Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945
Four Freedoms
Good Neighbor Policy With the Soviet Union Latin America
Road to War JAPAN
Adolph Hitler’s German Expansion Campaign
Benito Mussolini (Fascist)
General Francisco Franco
Munich Conference 1938
Isolationism Overseas markets in Germany & Japan Legacy of WWI Nye’s Committee Neutrality Acts
German Invasion of Poland
Battle of Britain
Lend Lease Act Helped Britain, China & Russia
Other Steps Toward Intervention US froze Japanese assets and no longer traded with them Interventionists tried to awaken a reluctant country to prepare for war
PACIFIC THEATRE
PEARL HARBOR
Baaton Death March
Pacific Turning Tides: Coral Sea & Midway Battles
EUROPEAN THEATRE
Erwin Rommel: Desert Fox North Africa Erwin Rommel: Desert Fox
D-Day
Stalingrad
Holocaust
AMERICAN HOME FRONT
Mobilizing the War National government’s role transformed Gov built housing for workers and forced civilian industries to retool for war production
Business and War Incentives to spur production: low interest loans, tax concessions and contracts with guaranteed profits Economy focused on wartime goods, utilized science & technology West coast growth South still tied to agriculture
Union Established Institutions
Freedom From Want: Office of War Information
Women at War
National Resources Planning Board Full employment Expanded welfare state Widely shared American standard of living Based on Keynesian Economics (massive spending on job creation & public works, urban redevelopment, and rural electrification programs) Congress eliminated funds… ideas went to far
Economic Bill of Rights Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) Full Employment Bill (Congress dropped word full)
Patriotic Assimilation Melting pot Promotion of pluralism Equality was definition of Americanism… the opposite of Nazism Racism and nativism stripped of American respectability
Mexican American Rights Bracero Program
Native Americans
Asian Americans In Wartime
Blacks and the War
Civil Rights Movement March on Washington Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Philip Randolph
Atomic Bomb
Planning the Post War World Tehran Yalta Potsdam
Complaints between the Big Three Russia’s western front Eastern Europe India and other British Colonies
Bretton Woods Replaced British pound with American dollar as main currency Put US back on gold standard Est World Bank Est International Monetary Fund
United Nations Dumbarton Oaks US dominant power Atlantic Charter