1. World War II

3. I. American Involvement in WWII
FDR recognizes Soviet Union
Neutrality Acts
Neutrality Act 1935: No U.S. weapons to any “belligerent” nation
2nd Neutrality Act 1936: No U.S. $ to any nation at war
3rd Neutrality Act: Previous laws permanent; no passengers on warring ships
“Cash-and-carry”

4. 6. Destroyers for bases

6. II. FDR Prepares 1938begins to prepare Isolation or Intervention?
Selective Service Actages 21-35
1940FDR elected to 3rd term
4 Freedoms
Speech
Religion
From want
From fear

7. FDR Prepares (cont’d) Lend-Lease Act: Britain gets U.S. war materials
Atlantic Charter
Self-determination
Free trade
1940- Sel.Ser.males 18-65

9. III. Wartime Mobilization
260,000 women
enlisted
2. Women’s Army
Corps

10. Women Appointed
for Voluntary Emergency
Service (WAVES)

11. 4. Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squandron
Office of War
Mobilization
Unemployment
vanishes

12. Wartime Mobilization(cont’d)
Price
Administration
Economic
Stabilization
Price floors/ceilings
Tax code
Rationing

13. Wartime Mobilization(cont’d)
9. Americans savedhelp spending after the war
Nation debt ↑ $200 bill.
War bonds
OWI (Office of War Information)

17. IV. Women and Minorities During Wartime
“Rosie the
Riveter”
Women earned
2/3 of male salary.

18. Women and Minorities During Wartime (cont’d)
Afr.-Am. move to industrial centers
Race riots

19. 5. Mex. Am.-return under bracero
program
Zoot Suit Riots
Nat. Am.- enlisted;
Navajo Code Talkers

20. Bracero Program

21. Navajo Code Takers

22. V. Japanese

24. Japanese (cont’d) 100,000 Japanese Am. relocated; citizens
Executive Order 9066
Fear that Japanese-American citizens might turn on the U.S.
Only 30% foreign born
Korematsu v. United States, 1944

25. VI. Diplomacy and Conferences

26. Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d)
Big Three: FDR, Churchill, Stalin
Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
1943, Casablanca
Invade Sicily
“Unconditional Surrender”
Nov. 1943—Tehran
Seeds of D-Day sown
Stalin declare war against Japan

27. Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d)
1st disagreements
Stalin wanted a “buffer zone”
Churchill wanted a free Europe
Feb. 1945, Yalta
Stalin agreed to go to war w/Japan in 90 days
Free Eastern Europe w/free elections
“Skeleton” of the UN
Germany divided into 4 zones

28. Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d)
April 12, 1945—FDR dies
Potsdam Conference (Post-Nazi defeat)
Truman, Atlee, Stalin
Unconditional Surrender of Japan; war-crimes tribunals; occupation of Germany
Much disagreementbrink of a breakup