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Alan Brinkley,
American History 14/e
Chapter 26:
America in a World at War
Highlights
War on Two Fronts
 The American People in Wartime
 The Defeat of the Axis
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War on Two Fronts
– America Unified
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Containing the Japanese
– Midway
– Guadalcanal
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War on Two Fronts
World War II in the Pacific
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War on Two Fronts
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Holding Off the Germans
– Stalingrad
– Dispute over the Second Front
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America and the
Holocaust
– Official Anti-Semitism
Laborers at Buchenwald, 1945
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War on Two Fronts
World War II in North Africa and Italy:
The Allied Counteroffensive, 1942-1943
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The American People in Wartime
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Prosperity
– War-Induced Economic Recovery
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The War and the West
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Labor and the War
– Union Gains
Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia
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The American People in Wartime
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Stabilizing the Boom
– Office of Price Administration
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Mobilizing Production
– War Production Board
Work to Win
(NARA)
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The American People in Wartime
Douglas Aircraft Factory,
Long Beach, CA
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The American People in Wartime
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Wartime and Science and Technology
– National Defense Research Committee
– Radar and Sonar
– Ultra
– Magic
Radar scope, 1944
(NARA)
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The American People in Wartime
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African Americans and the War
– Fair Employment Practices Commission
(FEPC)
– Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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The American People in Wartime
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Native Americans and the War
– “Code-Talkers”
"Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.”
Dorie Miller with his Navy Cross at
Pearl Harbor, May 27, 1942.
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The American People in Wartime
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Mexican American War Workers
– Employment Gains for Mexican Americans
– Zoot-Suit Riots
Soldier inspecting a couple of
"zoot suits" at the Uline Arena
during Woody Herman's Orchestra
engagement there, Washington, D.C.
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The American People in Wartime
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Women and Children
at War
– Dramatic Increase
in Female Employment
– “Rosie the Riveter”
– Limited Child Care
– Beginning of the
“Baby Boom”
Women at war
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The American People in Wartime
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Wartime Life and Culture
– Economic Good Times
– Fighting for Future Prosperity
– USO
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The American People in Wartime
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The Internment of Japanese Americans
– Ethnic Distinctions Blurred
– Anti-Japanese Prejudice
– “Relocation Centers”
– Korematsu v. U.S.
The Hirano family at the
Colorado River Relocation
Center; Poston, AZ
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The American People in Wartime
War Relocation Authority
Center, Manzanar, CA
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The American People in Wartime
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Chinese Americans and the War
– Chinese Exclusion Acts Repealed
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The Retreat from Reform
– Dismantling the New Deal
– 1944 Election
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The Defeat of the Axis
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The Liberation of France
– Strategic Bombing
– D-Day
– Battle of the Bulge
– Germany Defeated
U.S. infantrymen show off spoils
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The Defeat of the Axis
World War II in Europe: The Allied Counteroffensive, 1943-1945
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The Defeat of the Axis
D-Day landing
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The Defeat of the Axis
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The Pacific Offensive
– Battle of Leyte Gulf
– Okinawa
Raising the flag at Iwo Jima
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The Defeat of the Axis
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The Manhattan Project
– Enrico Fermi
– The Trinity Bomb
Atomic blast, 1945
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The Defeat of the Axis
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Atomic Warfare
– Debating the
Bomb’s Use
– Hiroshima
– Nagasaki
Hiroshima, September 1945
(NARA)
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