WORLD WAR II NCHE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Osceola

WORLD WAR II NCHE – THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Osceola County, Florida Allan M. Winkler June 10, 2013

The Attack

Questions to Consider • How Did Conflict in Europe and Asia Affect the United States? • How Did the War Aims of the Grand Alliance Members Differ? • How did the War Unfold? • How Did the War Affect the American Home Front?

The Road to War • Collapse of the Peace – Europe – Asia • American Response – Neutrality Acts – End to Isolation • War – Europe -- Undeclared War for the U. S. A – Asia -- Pearl Harbor

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

The Road to War • Collapse of the Peace – Europe – Asia • American Response – Neutrality Acts – End to Isolation • War – Europe -- Undeclared War for the U. S. A – Asia -- Pearl Harbor

Emperor Hirohito

The Road to War • Collapse of the Peace – Europe – Asia • American Response – Neutrality Acts – End to Isolation • War – Europe -- Undeclared War for the U. S. A – Asia -- Pearl Harbor

The Attack on Pearl Harbor

War Leaders • United States -- FDR • Great Britain -- Winston Churchill • Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin

War Aims & Strategy • War Aims – USA – GB – USSR • War Strategy – Europe First – Cross-Channel Invasion? – Second Front?

Unfolding of the War • • North Africa Italy Europe via the English Channel Asia

Conferences • • Casablanca -- January 1943 Teheran -- November 1943 Yalta -- February 1945 Potsdam -- July 1945

Mobilization • • • Economic Organization Cost Plus Dollar-a-Year Men Conversion New Industries

Mobilization • • • Economic Organization Cost Plus Dollar-a-Year Men Conversion New Industries

War Aims • Official Aims – Four Freedoms – Atlantic Charter Commitments • Unofficial Aims – Home – Blueberry Pie

War Aims • Official Aims – Four Freedoms – Atlantic Charter Commitments • Unofficial Aims – Home – Blueberry Pie

American Mood • Propaganda – Office of War Information (OWI) – Selling Bonds – Maintaining Morale • Campaigns – Metal & Rubber – Victory Gardens • Consumer Spending – Books and Comics – Movies – Baseball

American Mood • Propaganda – Office of War Information (OWI) – Selling Bonds – Maintaining Morale • Campaigns – Metal & Rubber – Victory Gardens • Consumer Spending – Books and Comics – Movies – Baseball

American Mood • Propaganda – Office of War Information (OWI) – Selling Bonds – Maintaining Morale • Campaigns – Metal & Rubber – Victory Gardens • Consumer Spending – Books and Comics – Movies – Baseball

American Mood (continued) • Consumers and Inflation – Rationing – The OPA • Workers and the Labor Movement – Little Steel Formula – No Strike Pledge

American Mood (continued) • Consumers and Inflation – Rationing – The OPA • Workers and the Labor Movement – Little Steel Formula – No Strike Pledge

Outsiders • Women – Rosie the Riveter – Problems • African Americans – Discrimination – Seeds of the Civil Rights Movement • Native Americans • Japanese Americans – – Issei Nisei Sansei The War Relocation Authority

Outsiders • Women – Rosie the Riveter – Problems • African Americans – Discrimination – Seeds of the Civil Rights Movement • Native Americans • Japanese Americans – – Issei Nisei Sansei The War Relocation Authority

Outsiders • Women – Rosie the Riveter – Problems • African Americans – Discrimination – Seeds of the Civil Rights Movement • Native Americans • Japanese Americans – – Issei Nisei Sansei The War Relocation Authority

Outsiders • Women – Rosie the Riveter – Problems • African Americans – Discrimination – Seeds of the Civil Rights Movement • Native Americans • Japanese Americans – – Issei Nisei Sansei The War Relocation Authority

The War as Watershed • Continuity • Change