WORLD WAR II American Foreign Policy and the Coming of World War II Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928) Isolationism
WORLD WAR II Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini
WORLD WAR II
–Neutrality Acts –Appeasement of Hitler –Hitler’s blitzkrieg (Spring 1940) –FDR and Isolationism Lend-Lease (1941)
Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
“Taxis to Hell--and Back” Robert Sargent
Battle of Midway June 1942
Manhattan Project
WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity –John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics Women and World War II African Americans and World War II