U.S. Prepares for War

-”Cash and Carry “ policy begins

-Axis Powers formed

-_________________ begins draft process

-Roosevelt seeks ________ term

-_________

meant to help supply allies-Arsenal of Democracy

-_____________signed between U.S. and Britain

resembles 14 points of Wilson

Selective Service

3rd

Atlantic Charter

Lend-Lease Policy

U.S. enters the War

-U.S. has embargo on Japan for actions in the Pacific

-U.S. had warning of a possible Japanese attack somewhere

-Dec. 7th, 1941 is

“A day which will live in infamy”

Americans in the Service

-millions volunteered and millions more were drafted

-GI’s went to basic training for 8 weeks

GI stands for______________

-Who volunteered for the Auxiliary Corps?

-Minorities served in segregated units

Tuskegee Airmen

Government Issues

Life on the Home Front

-___________________

industries were retooled to make war materials, this board oversaw this retooling

-____________ are mobilized to help with war, invented and improved things like radar, sonar, penicillin

_______________ and ___________ helped build the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project)

-Entertainment propaganda

War Production Board

Scientists

OppenheimerEinstein

Life on the Home Front

-women stepped into many war materials jobs

-Entertainment propaganda

- ______________ used to promote your feelings and beliefs during wartime

“Rosie the Riviter”

Propaganda

Government Control

-Inflation controlled by price freezes

-many products rationed to conserve resources

-_________________ increased

-_____________ sold

to help pay for war

Income taxes

War bonds

Japanese Victories

-_______________ surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. Japanese victory, Japan doing well in Pacific

-___________, U.S. General, retreats from the Philippines, troops go on march known as the “Bataan Death March”

-”We will return to the Philippines” - MacArthur

Pearl Harbor

MacArthur

Government Control

Civil Rights

-________________ issue debated in the case Korematsu v. United States

discriminatory policy???

Japanese Internment

America Recovers

-Bombing of Tokyo April 1942

-_____________, Japan vs. U.S., shows air power in the navy, first time a naval battle aged from the air

-________________, 1942, U.S. military led by Adm. Chester Nimitz inflicted great damage to much larger Japanese fleet

-Japan never recovered its naval power

Battle of Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Island Hopping

-as the U.S. built its naval and air advantage the Japanese fortified every island

-U.S. bypasses many island and takes weaker ones for airfields

-Guadalcanal, 1942, Japan vs. U.S. – attrition and limited supplies = U.S. win

-Philippines, 1944, MacArthur Returns, U.S. regains territory

High Costs

-Japanese defending with every man

________________ – suicide missions by Japanese Pilots

-______________, 1945, U.S. victory, but 6,000 Marines die

Kamikaze attacks

Iwo Jima

American Life

Anti-Japanese and Anti-German Policies

Roosevelt will seek a _____ term before the end of war

Roosevelt is re-elected in 1944

4th

High Costs-Roosevelt dies, Truman takes

the helm

-Okinawa, 1945

higher death totals

Q: Invade Japan?

-warnings of what invasion would cost

Manhattan Project

-about 600,000 people worked in the project

-__________________ led the project at Los Alamos NM

- _______________ a popular scientist also helped in this project

-some scientists urged the gov’t not to use the weapon

-__________ made the decision to use the weapon on Japan

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Albert Einstein

Truman

Ultimate Weapon

-August, 1945 the bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, called ______________ over Hiroshima

-Second bomb, called _____________ was dropped on Nagasaki

-Japanese surrender

“Little Boy”

“Fat Man”

President Truman Decides: Drop Atom Bombs!!!

Truman decides to drop the bomb, why?

It will end the warIt will save lives (pimarily American & Allied lives)

Einstein regrets helping with the bomb, after it is dropped

Rebuilding the World

-___________, 1945 meeting of the Big Three

-Creation of the United Nations, to do what???

-__________, July 1945, Allis decide how to division of Germany

-________________ leaders put on trial for war crimes, several executed

Yalta

Potsdam

Nuremburg Trials

-General Douglas MacArthur

-reformed Japan’s economy

-established democratic government

-guaranteed basic freedoms

Constitution still exists as Japan’s government

Occupation of Japan