WORLD WAR II NCHE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Osceola
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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