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Road to War
A. Diplomacy in a Dangerous World
1. Roosevelt followed Hoover’s Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America.
a) Cuba and Mexico soon tested the noninterventionism of the Good Neighbor policy.
b) Colonel Fulgencio Batista
B. Roosevelt and Isolationism
1. Tensions were increasing, however, in Europe and Asia.
a) Germany and Hitler
b) Japan and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
c) Soviet Union
2. Nye Committee
3. American isolationism
a) The Neutrality Act of 1935
b) The 1937 Neutrality Act
C. War and American Neutrality
1. As Europe rushed into war, the United States had little desire to do so.
2. The Third Neutrality Act of 1939
a) Winston Churchill
b) The Burke-Wadsworth Act
3. Axis Powers
D. The Battle for the Atlantic
1. Lend-Lease Bill
2. Atlantic Charter
E. Pearl Harbor
1. Throughout 1941, FDR had to balance Britain’s desperate needs with those of his own.
a) Japan and China
b) Restrictions
c) Americans prepared for war, but Japan moved first.
2. The Japanese planned to attack the American fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor.
3. On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war.
America Responds to War
A. Japanese American Internment
1. Product of long-standing racist attitudes and an immediate reaction to the war
a) Executive Order No. 9066
b) Nisei and Issei
c) Internment Camps
B. Mobilizing the Nation for War
1. President Roosevelt called on Americans to produce the goods necessary for victory.
a) By 1942, one-third of all American production was geared to the war.
b) the arsenal of democracy
c) Office of Price Administration
2. Office of War Mobilization
a) The war brought an end to the Depression.
C. A People at Work and War
1. One sure sign of war was that people were moving and taking new jobs.
a) Women and minorities
b) War industrial cities
c) Unsupervised teenage children
D. New Opportunities and Old Constraints in Wartime
1. The military branches were pushed to create new roles for women.
a) WAC, WAVES, and WASPS
2.
As more jobs opened, women did fill them.
a) Rosie the Riveter
b) Not all was ideal at work
3. War experiences of minorities.
E. Wartime Politics
1. Republicans and conservative Democrats moved to bury what was left of the New Deal.
a) GI Bill of Rights
b) Roosevelt won reelection in 1940.
III. Waging World War
A. Halting the Japanese Advance
1. Midway
B. Roads to Berlin
1. Allies began to meet with some success – Battle of Stalingrad
2. Tehran Conference
a) Operation Overlord
C. Stresses in the Grand Alliance
1. Yalta
D. The Holocaust
1.
“The Final Solution”
2. Brutalization and execution of Jews in concentration camps
3. FDR did not establish a War Refuge Board until 1944
E. Closing the Circle on Japan
1. More and more American lives were being lost as the Allies circled the Japanese.
F. Entering a Nuclear Age
1. The A-bomb
a) Manhattan Project
2. The Potsdam Declaration
3. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4. World War II was over, but much of the world lay in ruins.