Henretta Brody Dumenil Ware Americas History Fifth Edition

Section I: The Road to War • • The Rise of Fascism Depression-Era Isolationism Retreat from Isolationism The Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Road to War: The Rise of Fascism • • • Background Rise of fascism Japan Italy Germany – Munich Conference

Depression-Era Isolationism • Early years of the New Deal – Formal recognition of the Soviet Union • Repealing of the Platt Amendment & the Good Neighbor Policy • Policy of Isolationism • Neutrality legislation – Cash and carry policy • Spanish Civil War – Popular front

Depression-Era Isolationism • Merchants of Death • Nye Committee • Failure of Appeasement – Nonaggression Pact

Retreat from Isolationism • Keeping US neutral • Blitzkrieg • Support for intervention grows – Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies • Isolationists – America First Committee • The National Defense Advisory Commission & the Council of National Defense

Retreat from Isolationism • • • Destroyers for Bases deal Election of 1940 Lend-Lease Act “Four Freedoms” Atlantic Charter

The Attack on Pearl Harbor • • Panay incident Quarantine Speech Tri-Partite Pact Embargo Freezing Japanese assets Pearl Harbor Declaration of war

Pearl Harbor (p. 754)

Section II: Organizing for Victory • • • Financing the War Mobilizing the American Fighting Force Workers and the War Effort Civil Rights during Wartime Politics in Wartime

Financing the War • • War Powers Act Federal Budget Revenue Act of 1942 A larger bureaucracy – Dollar-a-year men

Financing the War • The Office of Price Administration (OPA) • The War Production Board (WPB) – military-industrial complex • The numbers – The trade-off

Mobilizing the American Fighting Force • More state presence • Race & Sex

Workers & the War Effort • Rosie the Riveter • Organized Labor – NWLB (The National War Labor Board) • Profits soared during the war – John L. Lewis – Smith-Connally Labor Act

Civil Rights during Wartime • Double V • March on Washington – Executive Order 8802 – Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) • League of United Latin American Citizens • NAACP grows

Politics in Wartime • FDR drops New Deal Programs • Second bill of rights • The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944) (AKA: the GI Bill) • Midterm Election of 1942 • Election of 1944

Section III: Life on the Home Front • “For the Duration” • Japanese Internment

“For the Duration” • The Civilian’s job at home – Victory Gardens • Office of War Information (OWI) • “four freedoms” Worship Fear Want Speech

“For the Duration” • Popular Culture • Consumption Patterns and Rationing – Office of Price Administration

“For the Duration” • Migration & Family Life – Where people lived – Defense production in California – Relocation Strains – Racial conflicts • Detroit Riot • Zoot Suiters and the Riots – German Americans & Italian Americans &

Japanese Internment • Background • Executive Order 9066

Section IV: Fighting and Winning the War • • • Wartime Aims and Strategies The War in Europe The War in the Pacific Planning the Postwar World The Onset of the Atomic Age and the War’s End

Wartime Aims & Strategies • The statistics • Wartime Aims and Strategies

The War in Europe • Our first six months of war • Turning Point • Africa • Italy • D-Day

The War in Europe • Victory in Europe – Battle of the Bulge – May 8, 1945 • Holocaust • The War Refugee Board • What inhibited the US response?

The War in the Pacific • What did Japan conquer after Pearl Harbor? • Battle of the Coral Sea • Midway • Submarines • Military Command • Reconquest of the Philippines • Kamikazes Battle of the Coral S Midway • Kamikazes

Planning the Postwar World • The Big 3 • Yalta Conference – United Nations Security Council • Roosevelt’s Death

Manhattan Projec The Onset of the Atomic Age & the War’s End Hiroshima • Manhattan Project • To Bomb or not to Bomb • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • Formal surrender • Nagasaki

Chapter 26: The World at War (1939– 1945) • • • • • Map 26. 1 World War II in the North Atlantic, 1939– 1943 (p. 752) Map 26. 2 Japanese Relocation Camps (p. 766) Map 26. 3 World War II in Europe, 1941– 1943 (p. 768) Map 26. 4 World War II in Europe, 1944– 1945 (p. 769) Map 26. 5 World War II in the Pacific, 1941– 1942 (p. 772) Map 26. 6 World War II in the Pacific, 1943– 1945 (p. 773) Figure 26. 1 Government Spending as a Percentage of GDP (p. 755) A B-17 Crew “Somewhere in England” (p. 748) Pearl Harbor (p. 754) Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad (p. 760) Please Stay Home (p. 763) A Family Effort (p. 764) Behind Barbed Wire (p. 766) The Living Dead (p. 770) Hitting the Beach at Normandy (p. 771) The Big Three at Yalta (p. 775) Hiroshima (p. 776)