1. Before the bell rings Put WS p. 245-248 in basket.
Put Extra Credit answers in basket.
Get a sheet of paper out and a pen/pencil.
If you did not finish yesterday’s 2 question assignment, get it out as well.

2. EXTRA CREDIT write answers in complete sentences
Why were the buffalo important to the Plains Indians?
Why were the Plains Indians nomadic?
What is significant about the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Describe the Gilded Age.
Give an example of horizontal integration.
How do nativist feel about immigrants?

3. FDR ABANDONS ISOLATIONISM
America Enters the War
FDR ABANDONS ISOLATIONISM

4. FDR’s early take on WWII
Delivered Quarantine Speech
War is a disease
avoid it because it is deadly
Instead of war, sign peace agreements
Quarantine (isolate) aggressive nations
Connected to America’s traditional isolation and neutrality

5. Neutrality Acts attempts at avoiding US involvement in WWII
revised US involvement in 1939
allowed FDR to sell goods and weapons to nations
paid cash and transported the goods themselves
this helped the Allies and violated true neutrality
but Germany was winning and we had to do something

6. FDR Moves Toward War
After his re-election (3rd term) FDR pushed for war
FDR delivered his Four Freedom’s Speech suggested the only way Americans could keep their:
freedom of speech
freedom of worship
freedom from want
freedom from fear
was to help Britain combat Nazi Germany and Japanese militarism

7. Lend-Lease Act
US plan to sell, lease or lend defense materials to Allies
economic declaration of war against Axis Powers
violated neutrality
In response Germany starts to attack merchant ships delivering these war materials to Britain using U- Boats
BIG IDEA:
…America is practically fighting in World War II with dollars not bullets

9. Pearl harbor (“A day that will live in infamy”)
Japan relied on the US for natural resources (specifically oil)
US ended trade (place embargo) with Japan… negotiations were unsuccessful
In response, General Hideki Tojo sent troops to bomb the US military base of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
a surprise attack
2,500 killed
Disabled the base and supplies for six months
FDR asked Congress to declare war and America enters the war with the Allies

11. EFFECTS OF PEARL HARBOR
US starts to restrict the rights of Japanese living in America because they were seen as disloyal
Government starts to detain Japanese- Americans in internment camps (temporary imprisonment)
Korematsu vs. US upheld the governments ability to use internment camps against citizens during times of war

12. America Mobilizes (Prepares for War)
Huge patriotism following Pearl Harbor Attack
People enlisted, gave blood, volunteered
People bought war bonds to fund the war, connected to victory
Women’s Army Corps (WACs):
gave army jobs to women - nurses, clerical work, typists, truck drivers, etc
Rosie the Riveter became symbolic for women to show their war efforts making war materials
women had to step aside when men came back from war

13. AMERICA MOBILIZES
War Production Board: oversaw the transition of peacetime industries to war time industries in America
Ford made planes not cars
Other government agencies were created to distribute scarce resources, create patriotism
Rationing: Americans were issued coupon books that limited the amount of certain goods they could buy

14. Propaganda or Patriotism?