1. WORLD WAR II American Foreign Policy and the Coming of World War II Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928) Isolationism

2. WORLD WAR II Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini

3. WORLD WAR II

4. –Neutrality Acts –Appeasement of Hitler –Hitler’s blitzkrieg (Spring 1940) –FDR and Isolationism Lend-Lease (1941)

6. Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

11. “Taxis to Hell--and Back” Robert Sargent

13. Battle of Midway June 1942

15. Manhattan Project

18. WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity –John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics Women and World War II African Americans and World War II