1. Civilisation des Etats-Unis 11c: World Wars Prof. Sämi LUDWIG

2. 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 (1936-1939) 1940 FDR’s 2nd re-election: “Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

3. 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?)

4. Pearl Harbor: December 7th, 1941, 7:50, Sunday morning General Tojo

5. Japanese Internment Camps “Relocation Centers” for Japanese Americans John Okada: No-No Boy

6. 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: 9’000’000 1945: 15’000’000 “Rosie the riveter”

7. 1943 Teheran conference (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt) “Uncle Joe”

8. 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

9. 1945 Yalta conference, then FDR dies Harry S. Truman becomes president 1945 Potsdam conference

10. Pacific theater → General Douglas MacArthur 1942 Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal “island hopping” Philippines back, etc. - Battle of Iwo Jima

11. 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

12. the carrier of “Fat Boy”