WWII

Chapter 17 review

Leading up to WWII• Roosevelt’s good-neighbor policy

– U.S. pledge not to intervene in Latin America

• Isolationism during the 1930s• Japanese invasion of China

• Lend Lease Program– the United States provided critical aid to

Great Britain and the Soviet Union– “Cash and carry basis”

Pearl Harbor

WWII Military Strategies

• Main Strategies• unconditional surrender• an eventual second front by invading Europe• victory in the European area first.• Then onto the Pacific Theater.

The Pacific Under Japan

Macarthur Nimitz

Island Hopping

Eisenhower- Europe

End of War In EuropeBattle of The Bulge

V.E. DayMay 7-8 1945

The Home Front

• African-American Phillip Randolph demanded equal employment opportunities for blacks during World War II

• Executive Order No. 8802 required defense industries to make jobs available without discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin.

• Executive Order 9066- sent ethnic groups to Internment Camps during WWII Feb. 19, 1942

• Korematsu v. U.S. the Supreme Court upheld the government’s practice of placing Japanese Americans in internment camps

The Home Front• Selling war bonds not only raised

money for World War II but also contributed to the national debt

• Increased employment for women

• Women• work in factories.• establish themselves as a vital part of the

economy.• participate in the war effort.• define a new role in society.

WWII Propaganda Cartoons

War in the Pacific….

The Atomic Bomb

• Consequences of Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan

– the surrender of Japan– the end of WWII– destruction of two Japanese cities– the deaths of thousands of civilians

Manhattan Project

• Albert Einstein and FDR

• Little BoyHiroshima Aug. 6, 1945

• Fat Man

Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1945

Japan Surrenders

• September 2, 1945 Japan surrenders

• USS Missouri

• V-J Day

Aftermath of WWII

Chapter 36 review

Aftermath Trends

• Issue of a 2nd Depression

• Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944

(GI Bill)

• Permanent war economy = Economic boom from 1950-1970

• Growth of suburbs

• Sift towards the “Sunbelt”

Cold War Beginnings

• Yalta Feb. 1945– Hold free elections in the countries of Eastern

Europe– The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against

Japan once Germany was defeated.– Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping

organization * Bernard Baruch 1946 call for all countries to

disarm atomic energy/research

U.N. in NYC

Issue of Europe

Germany

• Issue of Berlin • Berlin Airlift 1948

Cold War Beginnings• Soviet specialist George Kennan stance

on S.U. = “get-tough-with-Russia”• Truman Doctrine• Marshall Plan• NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization “to keep Russians out, Germans down,

and the Americans in”• September 1949- Soviets test their 1st A-

Bomb = birth of an arms race

The 2nd Red Scare

• Truman’s “loyalty program”

• Nixon and Joseph McCarthy head of “red hunt”

• McCarran Internal Security Bill- gave authority to the gov. to detain and arrest suspicious people

• Julia and Ethel Rosenberg

You know you’re a red if..

• You have declining religious sentiment

• Increased sexual freedom

• Your for civil rights

• You’re a drunk

• Your in debt

The Red Scare Game

• Are you Red enough????