Download Marbury v. Madison (1803)

#1: How and why did the United States attempt to
isolate itself from foreign troubles in the early and
mid-1930s?
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The London Conference
Freedom for the Filipinos & Recognition for Russia
Becoming a Good Neighbor
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Impulses Toward Storm-Cellar Isolationism *
#2: Discuss the effects of the U.S. neutrality laws of
the 1930s on both American foreign policy and the
international situation in Europe and East Asia.
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Congress Legislates Neutrality
America Dooms Loyalist Spain
Appeasing Japan and Germany
Hitler’s Belligerency and U.S. Neutrality *
• “The Only Way We Can
Save Her,” 1939
• Even as war broke out in
Europe, many Americans
continued to insist on the
morality of U.S. neutrality.
#3: How did Roosevelt manage to move the United
States toward providing effective aid to Britain while
slowly undercutting isolationist opposition?
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The Fall of France
Bolstering Britain with the Destroyer Deal (1940)
FDR Shatters the Two-Term Tradition
Congress Passes the Landmark Lend-Lease Law *
#4: Was American entry into World War II, with
both Germany and Japan, inevitable? Is it possible the
U.S. might have been able to fight either Germany or
Japan, while avoiding armed conflict with the other?
• Hitler’s Assault on the Soviet Union
• Spawns the Atlantic Charter
• U.S. Destroyers and Hitler’s U-boats Clash
• Surprise Assault on Pearl Harbor
• America’s Transformation from Bystander to
Belligerent *
• Unexpected Guest,
1941
• Stalin joins the
democracies, Britain
and America.
#1: What effects did World War II have on the
American economy? What role did American industry
and agriculture play in the war?
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The Allies Trade Space for Time
The Shock of War
Building the War Machine
Manpower and Womanpower
Wartime Migrations
Holding the Home Front *
#2: Most Americans, and the United States
government, now regard the internment of Japanese
Americans during World War II as an injustice and
unnecessary. Why was there so little opposition to it
at the time?
• Executive Order 9066
• Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
• Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) *
#3: What were the costs of World War II, and what
were its effects on America’s role in the world? *