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1. World War Two, 1941-1945

2. Main Points
Causes of War
U.S. Entry into Conflict
Impact on Society, Economy,
Politics
Main Events
End of the War

3. An Unstable World
Global Depression
New Countries in Europe
(Inter)National Debt
U.S., Japan, German Expansion
No International Organizations

4. Germany and the U.S.
Hitler elected leader of Germany
Expansion into Rhine River, FR-G
Border
U.S. Neutrality
Italy into Ethiopia 1935
1937: Italy, Germany & Japan signed
Anti-Comintern Act, against Russia

5. German Expansion
1938 Nazis entered Austria
Sacrificed Czechoslovakia for
“Peace” with Hitler
1939 total invasion of Czech
1939 G-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
1939 G-invaded Poland
BR & FR declare war

6. U.S. Response
Slow and contradictory
1941 Lend-Lease to allies
Military modernization
Awareness of German expansion
American embargo and quarantine
of Japan in Pacific
December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor

7. Burning Ships in Pearl Harbor

8. A Global War
European Theater
Pacific Theater
War in Mediterranean, North Africa
All of British possessions in India
and Australia
Total War for U.S.
Fear of invasion

9. Yellow = Allies
Pink = Axis
Orange = Axis
controlled
Cream = Neutral

10. A Total War
War Mobilization
Federal Control of the Economy
Westward Shift of people and
industry
Sacrifice and Patriotism
Millions of men to war

11. Building Support for War
Office of War Information
War as fight for American
Way of Life, freedom
Censorship
Only positive images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4o0kVX7

12. War Propaganda

14. Masculinity and War

17. Women in Industries
Industries vacated by soldiers
Single & Married
45% of workers in shipbuilding
Women’s “duty” to work on the
“home front” while men were “away”
fighting
High wages, freedom, enjoyment,
personal pride

18. Rosie the Riveter

19. Women in the War
 140,000 in WACS
 100,000 in Navy
WAVES
 Challenge to gender
roles and norms
 Women’s freedom
and independence

20. Gendered Propaganda

21. Women = Home = Homefront

22. African Americans
Segregated Units
125,000 into San
Francisco & Oakland
Housing & school
shortages
Segregation in schools
increased

23. German Expansionism
 Two fronts
 Western Europe &
France
 Russia
 Blitzkrieg and massive
industrial output
 Air Raid on England
 Control of Northern Africa
through Italy

24. Allied Successes
Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942
 Pacific Success
Battle of Midway, June 1942
 Overturned J- Supremacy
Battle of El Alamien, Fall 1942
 Northern Africa
Operation Torch, May 1943
 Eisenhower’s invasion

26. Hitler Weakens
Turned east and tried to invade
Russia
Stalled for months, winter hit, millions
died
 August 1942-February 1943
Hitler pulled out of Russia and lost
momentum in war

27. The End is Near
Operation Overlord, Summer 1944
Second Western front
Landed in France
Beaches of Normandy
D-Day, June 6, 1944
2 million participated
Liberated Paris

28. D-Day June 6, 1944

29. End of the War
 Germany Surrounded
 Island Hopping in
Pacific
 February 1945: Yalta
Conference (UKR)
 Britain: Churchill
 Russia: Stalin
 US: Roosevelt

30. Race and the War
Home front
Segregated Units
A. Philip Randolph
Fair Employment
Practices Commission

31. Zoot-Suit Riots
 1940s LA
 Death of a Mex. Am
youth
 Police arrested,
convicted several for
murder
 Anti-Mexican riots
 Stripped “zoot-suiters”

33. Japanese/American
Internment
 Executive Order 9066 on
February 19, 1942
 110,000 relocated to “War
Relocation Camps”
 150,000 in Hawaii
 1944 US Supreme Court
supported it
 Over half were US citizens
 $1.6 billion in reparations

35. Bracero Program
 1942-1964
 1 yr contracts paid
 Over 4 million
 Some $ kept by gov’t
 Racism and economic
exclusion

36. Holocaust

37. Holocaust
Over six Million killed in gas
chambers & concentration camps
“Final Solution”
U.S. State Department had
information
Anti-Semitism in U.S

38. End of the War
 Roosevelt Died
 Poland Sacrificed to
Stalin
 Atomic Testing
 “Manhattan Project”
 $2 billion = $20 billion
today
 Trinity Test Site, NM

39. Post-War Situation
 Japan
 Truman agreed to dropping two Atomic Bombs
 Hiroshima & Nagasaki, 1945
 Nearly 120,000 died immediately
 USSR
 Roughly 25-35 million dead
 Fear of Germany
 Suspicion of the U.S.
 Control over eastern Europe

40. Continued
World Economy
 International Monetary Fund
 Investment, loans, economic growth
World Politics
 United Nations
 Security Council
 Member nations
 Debate, conflict resolution

41. Significance
 Ended the Great Depression
 Migration to the American West
 New economic opportunities for Women and
People of Color
 Brief unity and ongoing racism
 Defeat of Nazis and crippled Germany
 Destroyed Europe
 U.S. and Soviet Union became superpowers