1. WWII, The U.S. at War

2. Pearl Harbor
U.S. instituted an embargo on several resources to Japan, including oil
Japanese attack December 7, 1941, Hawaii
Over 2,300 American service personnel died
U.S. immediately declares war on Japan

3. Japanese Internment Executive Order 9066, signed in February 1942
Removal of 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans
Camps were closed in 1945
33,000 Japanese Americans joined the Armed forces

4. The Home Front Smith Act, 1940 Bracero Program, 1942
Repeal of Chinese Exclusion, 1943

5. Women during WWII Overall employment rose nearly 70% Rosie the Riveter
Opportunities for women in the Armed Services
Women’s Army Corps
Navy WAVES
Increase in domestic labor
“Victory Gardens”

6. Racial Tensions at Home
A. Philip Randolph and the Fair Employment Practices Commission
1943 Detroit Race Riots
Packard Auto Plant
Conflict in neighborhoods
34 deaths, 1,800 arrests
1943 Zoot Suit Riots
Los Angeles

7. Democracy at Home
Du Bois said WWII was a “War for racial equality” and a struggle for “democracy not only for white folks but for yellow, brown, and black.”
Fighting for the “Double V”
Navajo Code Talkers

8. Politics of War Allied Powers have different postwar goals
The Second Front
D-Day, June 6, 1944
Meeting at Yalta, February, 1945
Fall of Berlin, April 1945
V E Day, Germany surrenders, May 7, 1945

9. War in the Pacific & The Bomb
Potsdam Meeting, July 1945
Successful testing of A-bomb
Decision to drop the bomb
Saving lives vs. Warning to Soviets
Bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
V J Day, Japan surrenders, August 14, 1945

10. WWII, The U.S. at War
Key terms: Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment, Smith Act,
Bracero Program, Rosie the Riveter, Women’s Army Corps,
“Victory Gardens”, Detroit Race Riots, Zoot Suit Riots,
Navajo Code Talkers, Double V, Second Front, Potsdam