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World War II

2. Good Neighbor Policy? Officially recognized the Soviet Union (1933)
Pan-American Conference
Tydings-McDuffie Act

3. The Line-Up Benito Mussolini (Italy) Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Hirohito (emperor) and Tojo (military leader) - Japan
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)

4. U. S. Response NO MORE WAR! Nye Committee Neutrality Acts (1935-1937)
Ludlow Amendment
Quarantine Speech (1937)

5. Symbolic Gestures Summer Olympics in Berlin (1936) Japanese
Jesse Owens
Japanese
Refused to recognized Japanese controlled Manchuria
boycott on Japanese silk and eventually other products as well

6. Hitler at Full Steam! End of Munich Pact
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Non-aggression pact with Soviet Union

7. The Jewish Problem Nuremberg Laws (1935) Kristallnacht (1938)
Final Solution
60,00 Jewish refugees came to the U.S. between

8. Beginning of the War September 1, 1939 - Poland
FDR revised Neutrality Act (cash and carry)
The list of countries under Germany control
Fall of France
Battle of Britain

9. Election of 1940 Third term for FDR Republicans- Wendell Willkie
Much too busy to campaign
Lend-lease
America First Committee

10. Isolation to Intervention
Send Guns not Sons
Occupation of Finland and Iceland
Atlantic Charter
Response to German submarines
Shoot Axis vessels near U.S. on sight

11. Pearl Harbor Economic war on Japan Japan’s response was to attack
December 7, 1941 “a day that will live in infamy”
Dec. 8 war is declared

12. Homefront Mobilizing for war (blue pg 833-834/yellow 873-874)
War Economy (blue pg /yellow )
Science and War (blue 851/yellow )
Propaganda (yellow /posters)
Japanese Internment (blue pg /yellow 887)
Education (yellow )
Women and Family (blue 833/yellow )
African Americans (yellow 879/yellow )
Other Minorities (Native Americans, Mexicans, Jews) (yellow )

16. Europe Battlefront Focus first on defeating Germany Operation Torch
Eisenhower
Africa
Invasion of Sicily and Italy
Italy surrendered in 1943 but fighting continued

17. Conferences Casablanca, Morocco (1943) Tehran, Iran (1943)
FDR, Churchill and Stalin
French invasion plan
German zones of occupation

18. European Battlefront Russia D-Day Battle of the Bulge Stalingrad
Tide had turned
D-Day
Invasion of France
Response to Tehran Conference
Battle of the Bulge

19. D-Day

20. Pacific Battlefront Battle in the Philippines Battle of Midway (1942)
General Douglas MacArthur
Leap-frogging
By 1944, they were in bombing range of Japan

21. Election of 1944 Democrats re-elect FDR but change VP
Republicans nominate Thomas E. Dewey
Unprecedented 4th term

22. 1945!!! Yalta Conference Defeat of Germany End of FDR’s reign
Pinched from both sides
April 30 - suicide
May 8 - V-E Day
End of FDR’s reign
Cerebral hemorrhage (4/12)

23. End of Japan Iwo Jima and Okinawa Potsdam Ultimatum to Japan
Atomic bombs
August 14, Japan has had enough