1. UNIT 11- World War 2/ Beginnings of Cold War
Why do we enter?
How do we change on the home front?
The bomb

2. UNIT 11- World War 2/ Beginnings of Cold War
In the 1930s, how did Congress attempt to remain neutral and not make the same mistakes that led them into World War I?
In what ways did America increasingly get involved in World War II prior to Pearl Harbor (December 1941)?

3. Please slow down and fill in notes (on back) for…
October Italy invades Ethiopia
September Munich Conference
September Germany invades Poland- WW2 begins
June France surrenders
January 1941
June Germany invades USSR
September Greer incident
December 1941

6. “America on the Sidelines”- due tomorrow
Did you….
Tally up your choices?- 5 pts
(Take notes on important events?)
*******Answer the questions at bottom, on a separate piece of paper? (10 pts)
Tally/ questions for Asia? (Extra credit)

7. The Neutrality Act of 1935 If there is a war anywhere in the world
Embargo (STOP) of arms sales to BOTH sides

8. Munich Conference/ Germany gets Sudetenland- 1938
APPEASEMENT- giving into an aggressive nation’s demands in return for guarantees of no more territorial gains
US’s response: No action taken (Europe’s problem)

9. Germany invades Poland; WW2 begins (in Europe)
REVISION OF NEUTRALITY ACT (1939)
“cash and carry”:
The US will sell arms to Britain, BUT
We WILL not lend Britain money; they must pay cash
We WILL not ship them over- Britain must carry goods across Atlantic themselves

10. Germany takes France 1st peacetime DRAFT in US history
Expand armed forces

11. Britain runs out of money
“Lend- Lease” Act- We will “lend” Britain arms, ammunition
(FDR- fireside chat- compares to a neighbor’s house burning down)

12. June 1941- Germany invades Soviet Union
Lend-Lease is extended to Soviet Union

13. September 1941- the “Greer Incident”
Uboat hits USS Greer??
“shoot on sight” order given-
fire at u-boats; don’t wait to be attacked

14. December 1941 We declare war on Germany after they declare war on us

15. How does WW2 impact America on the “home front”?

16. The U.S. Must be an “Arsenal of Democracy”

17. Feats of production 9 months- entire auto industry to war production….
Bomber every 5 minutes….

18. 1/3 of American workforce is female by war’s end….

19. Financing the War Taxes- income taxes raise substantially
Gov. starts taking out of paycheck
Rest? Borrow money
From banks
Sells war bonds
Government debt rises

20. Rationing:

21. War Ends the depression
A) production soars
B) employment and income raises
C) farmers prosper

22. https://archive.org/details/Japanese1943

23. February 1942- Executive Order 9066
110,000 Japanese Americans sent to relocation camps

24. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Convicted of defying order to leave home
Supreme Court: rules Executive Order 9066 constitutional (6-3)
Based on “military imperative”, not race
110,000 forced into camps
Prison like- under guard
Sold homes and businesses at great loss
Becomes national embarassment:
(Dred Scott, Plessy)
1976- President Ford repeals
1988- Congress sends $20,000
to each victim

26. Manhattan Project

27. MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE U.S. DURING WORLD WAR 2
DRAW AN IMAGE
WHY CHOSEN?