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World War II
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I. American Involvement in WWII 1.FDR recognizes Soviet Union 2.Neutrality Acts 3.Neutrality Act 1935: No U.S. weapons to any “belligerent” nation 4.2 nd Neutrality Act 1936: No U.S. $ to any nation at war 5.3 rd Neutrality Act: Previous laws permanent; no passengers on warring ships 1.“Cash-and-carry”
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6. Destroyers for bases
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II. FDR Prepares 1.1938 begins to prepare 2.Isolation or Intervention? 3.Selective Service Act ages 21-35 4.1940 FDR elected to 3 rd term 5.4 Freedoms 1.Speech 2.Religion 3.From want 4.From fear
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FDR Prepares (cont’d) 6.Lend-Lease Act: Britain gets U.S. war materials 7.Atlantic Charter 1.Self-determination 2.Free trade 8.1940- Sel.Ser. males 18-65
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III. Wartime Mobilization 1.260,000 women enlisted 2. Women’s Army Corps
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3.Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES)
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4. Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squandron 5.Office of War Mobilization 6.Unemployment vanishes
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Wartime Mobilization(cont’d) 7.Price Administration 8.Economic Stabilization 1.Price floors/ceilings 2.Tax code 3.Rationing
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Wartime Mobilization(cont’d) 9. Americans saved help spending after the war 10.Nation debt ↑ $200 bill. 11. War bonds 12. OWI (Office of War Information)
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IV. Women and Minorities During Wartime 1.“Rosie the Riveter” 2.Women earned 2/3 of male salary.
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Women and Minorities During Wartime (cont’d) 3.Afr.-Am. move to industrial centers 4.Race riots
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5. Mex. Am.-return under bracero Program 6.Nat. Am.- enlisted; a. Navajo Code Talkers
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Bracero Program
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V. Japanese
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Japanese (cont’d) 1.100,000 Japanese Am. relocated; citizens 2.Executive Order 9066 3.Fear that Japanese-American citizens might turn on the U.S. 4.Only 30% foreign born 5.Korematsu v. United States, 1944
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VI. Diplomacy and Conferences
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Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d) 1.Big Three: FDR, Churchill, Stalin 2.Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam 3.1943, Casablanca 1.Invade Sicily 2.“Unconditional Surrender” 4.Nov. 1943—Tehran 1.Seeds of D-Day sown 2.Stalin declare war against Japan
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Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d) 5.1 st disagreements 6.Stalin wanted a “buffer zone” 7.Churchill wanted a free Europe 8.Feb. 1945, Yalta 1.Stalin agreed to go to war w/Japan in 90 days 2.Free Eastern Europe w/free elections 3.“Skeleton” of the UN 4.Germany divided into 4 zones
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Diplomacy and Conferences (cont’d) 9.April 12, 1945—FDR dies 10. Potsdam Conference (Post-Nazi defeat) 11. Truman, Atlee, Stalin 12. Unconditional Surrender of Japan; war- crimes tribunals; occupation of Germany 13. Much disagreement brink of a breakup
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