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THE EFFECTS OF World War II Copy starred pages Don’t copy gold type. Essential Question: How did World War II change America? Post World War I Foreign Policy Isolationism Nye Committee Neutrality Acts Rise of Totalitarianism Appeasement World War II Began: Sept. 1, 1939: Hitler’s June Invasion of Poland 1940: Fall of France Bombing FDR’s of Britain Response: Cash-and-Carry Lend-Lease Japanese Aggression: Invaded: Korea Manchuria Southeast French U.S. (China) Asia Indochina response: Embargo on Oil & Scrap Iron Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 The Date which will live in infamy! U. S. Losses: 2 battleships destroyed 6 “ near destruction 12 “ out of action 150 planes destroyed 2,300 killed 1,100 wounded War In Europe Turning Points: Stalingrad D-Day Invasion of Normandy Battle Bulge of the Allied Conferences Yalta Potsdam Nuremberg Trials War in the Pacific Turning Points Midway Battle Iwo 8 of Coral Sea Jima sq. miles 6,000 killed 20,000 injured War in the Pacific Decision to Drop Atomic Bomb President FDR Truman died April, 1945 Factors American Est. Casualties; 1,000,000 Japanese Fight to Death Unconditional Russia Surrender Home Front Rationing Migration to West Coast—Defense Jobs New Opportunities: Women African-Americans Mexican Immigrants Discrimination & Civil Rights Racism Japanese 442nd Internment Combat Team Segregated Military Blood Discrimination Discrimination & Civil Rights Tuskegee Eleanor E.O. A. Roosevelt 8802 Philip Randolph Equal Zoot Airmen Pay Defense Jobs Suit Riots Post World War II America America Power #1 Economic & World Post War World Communism Eastern North West v. Democracy v. Western Europe v. South Korea Germany & Japan Constitution Democratic Marshall Plan reforms G.I. Bill 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act $4 Billion in benefits to 9 million veterans of WWII Education> low interest loans for homes & businesses Result: Prosperity for children of depression Baby Boom Women back to Housewives Civil Rights Movement Nuclear Age Cold War