1. America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition CHAPTER 24 The World at War, 1937‒1945 Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s James A. Henretta Eric Hinderaker Rebecca Edwards Robert O. Self

3. I. The Road to War A. The Rise of Fascism 1. Japan and Italy 2. Hitler’s Germany

5. I. The Road to War B. War Approaches 1. The Popular Front

7. I. The Road to War B. War Approaches (cont.) 2. The Failure of Appeasement 3. Isolationism and Internationalism

8. I. The Road to War C. The Attack on Pearl Harbor 1. Provocation 2. Plans for war

10. II. Organizing for Victory A. Financing the War 1. Business and industry 2. War Production Board (WPB)

14. II. Organizing for Victory B. Mobilizing the American Fighting Force 1. Soldiers and workers 2. Women

15. II. Organizing for Victory C. Workers and the War Effort 1. Rosie the Riveter 2. Wartime Civil Rights 3. Organized Labor

18. II. Organizing for Victory D. Politics in Wartime 1. A second Bill of Rights 2. Election of 1944

20. III. Life on the Home Front A.“For the Duration” 1. Popular culture 2. Consumer goods

21. III. Life on the Home Front B. Migration and the Wartime City 1. Racial Conflict 2. Gay and Lesbian Communities

23. III. Life on the Home Front C. Japanese Removal 1. Anti-Asian sentiment 2. Executive Order 9066 and relocation 3. Hirabayashi v. United States

25. IV. Fighting and Winning the War A. Wartime Aims and Tensions 1. The Big Three 2. Battle of Kursk

26. IV. Fighting and Winning the War B. The War in Europe 1. D-Day 2. The Holocaust

30. IV. Fighting and Winning the War C. The War in the Pacific 1. Naval victories 2. Racial overtones

32. IV. Fighting and Winning the War D. The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War 1. Manhattan Project 2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

35. IV. Fighting and Winning the War E. The Toll of the War 1. Human Casualties 2. Economic and political transformations