Exploration Am' Culture TJ1812AJ GildedProgWW1 1960

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Exploration Am. Culture TJ-1812-AJ
Gilded/Prog/WW1 1960gt Colonization
Am. Revolt Sect./CW/R GD-WW2-Cold
War
ESSAY Describe the political climate in the US
from 1872-1890 Presidents Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur, Cleveland Events 1876, assassination,
corruption Issues end of Reconstruction, rise
of business, discontent of farmers Terms Gilded
Age (Twain), laissez-faire, Civil Service
(reform), political machines, agrarian discontent
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Chapter 36 World War II The attack on Pearl
Harbor starts WW2 for us -national unity
extraordinary (hatred aimed at Japan) -FDR guided
the US toward a Hitler first policy Sadly,
American distrust hatred made life terrible for
Japanese-Americans (Korematsu-v-US) The New Deal
disappears so does the Depression FDR had
espoused support for the Atlantic Charter
(freedom of seas, speech, religion, and from
fear) Minorities play a key role in firing up
American productivity blacks move North, women
get involved, the Bracero program brings in
Spanish workers Navajo code talkers
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Japan makes great gains in the Pacific that dont
stop until Coral Sea (carriers) Midway US
strategy in the Pacific is island hopping The
key island chain for the US are the Marianas
(within bombing range of Japan) Encoding machines
help US (enigma magic) Soviets beg for a 2nd
front used scorched earth policy to battle Nazis
Key conferences for war/post-war planning
(Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam) Allies
land in France (Normandy) June, 1944
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FDR, now sickly, elected to 4th term Nazis make
one last push at Battle of Bulge Hitler kills
himself April, 45 VE Day in May US turns tide
at sea against Japan at Leyte Gulf (first
kamikazes) Iwo Jima Okinawa US drops atomic
bombs on Hiroshima Nagasaki Japan surrenders
Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri Great cost
to the world, but US not physically damaged by
battlefield attacks