The End of an Era WWII Zoot Suit

The End of an Era WWII, Zoot Suit Riots, Chicano Labor, Internment Camps, and Bretton Woods Conference

Pearl Harbor � Tensions were not new—Japan’s attack of China led to possible aggression in the Pacific. Especially their tactics of cutting China off from the world market � The US moved ships to preempt Japanese aggression—refused to stop trade with China � Hull note declares economic war � December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy

WWII--Abridged � Japan begins to expand in the Pacific—US loses a major battle at Bataan Falls and Philippines � British and US freeze Japan at Midway � Final Solution � Stalingrad � Mussolini arrested and Italy falls � D-Day � The Battle of the Philippine Sea—Philippines re-instilled with a legitimate government � Germany Surrenders � A-bomb—Japan Surrenders

America at Home � John Maynard Keynes is thought to have been right � Business leaders began running government departments � Women in the factory—unemployment hits all time low � Rationed supplies—everyone participates in the war � Victory gardens � Volunteer Organizations: USO, Red Cross � Population Movement

Propaganda �Lend-Lease Act �United States Office of War Information �Areas of Propaganda �War Bonds �Double V campaign

Executive Order 9066 �Immigration Ban of 1924 �Japanese not permitted to become naturalized citizens �US Government begins spying on Japanese residents �Alien Enemies Act �Niihau incident �Executive Order 9066 �Life in the Camp

Immigration/ Racial tension �Bracero Program �Over a million ethnic minorities fight on behalf of the US �Native Americans and Navajo Code Talkers �Zoot Suit Riots � 1943 Detroit Riots �Chester Himes If He Hollers Let Him Go

Lasting Effects �Paris Peace Treaty 1947 �War reparations �United Nations �Brentwood Conference �Neo-Liberal world economics