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Fighting for the Four Freedoms:
World War II,
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Four Freedoms
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Good Neighbor Policy With the Soviet Union Latin America
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Road to War JAPAN
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Adolph Hitler’s German Expansion Campaign
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Benito Mussolini (Fascist)
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General Francisco Franco
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Munich Conference 1938
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Isolationism Overseas markets in Germany & Japan Legacy of WWI
Nye’s Committee Neutrality Acts
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German Invasion of Poland
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Battle of Britain
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Lend Lease Act Helped Britain, China & Russia
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Other Steps Toward Intervention
US froze Japanese assets and no longer traded with them Interventionists tried to awaken a reluctant country to prepare for war
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PACIFIC THEATRE
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PEARL HARBOR
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Baaton Death March
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Pacific Turning Tides: Coral Sea & Midway Battles
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EUROPEAN THEATRE
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Erwin Rommel: Desert Fox
North Africa Erwin Rommel: Desert Fox
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D-Day
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Stalingrad
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Holocaust
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AMERICAN HOME FRONT
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Mobilizing the War National government’s role transformed
Gov built housing for workers and forced civilian industries to retool for war production
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Business and War Incentives to spur production: low interest loans, tax concessions and contracts with guaranteed profits Economy focused on wartime goods, utilized science & technology West coast growth South still tied to agriculture
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Union Established Institutions
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Freedom From Want: Office of War Information
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Women at War
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National Resources Planning Board
Full employment Expanded welfare state Widely shared American standard of living Based on Keynesian Economics (massive spending on job creation & public works, urban redevelopment, and rural electrification programs) Congress eliminated funds… ideas went to far
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Economic Bill of Rights
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) Full Employment Bill (Congress dropped word full)
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Patriotic Assimilation
Melting pot Promotion of pluralism Equality was definition of Americanism… the opposite of Nazism Racism and nativism stripped of American respectability
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Mexican American Rights Bracero Program
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Native Americans
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Asian Americans In Wartime
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Blacks and the War
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Civil Rights Movement March on Washington Executive Order 8802
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Philip Randolph
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Atomic Bomb
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Planning the Post War World
Tehran Yalta Potsdam
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Complaints between the Big Three
Russia’s western front Eastern Europe India and other British Colonies
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Bretton Woods Replaced British pound with American dollar as main currency Put US back on gold standard Est World Bank Est International Monetary Fund
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United Nations Dumbarton Oaks US dominant power Atlantic Charter
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