World War II

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World War II
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I. American Involvement in WWII

• FDR recognizes Soviet Union
• Neutrality Acts
• Neutrality Act 1935 No U.S. weapons to any
  belligerent nation
• 2nd Neutrality Act 1936 No U.S. to any nation
  at war
• 3rd Neutrality Act Previous laws permanent no
  passengers on warring ships
• Cash-and-carry

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• 6. Destroyers for bases

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II. FDR Prepares

• 1938?begins to prepare
• Isolation or Intervention?
• Selective Service Act?ages 21-35
• 1940?FDR elected to 3rd term
• 4 Freedoms
• Speech
• Religion
• From want
• From fear

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FDR Prepares (contd)

• Lend-Lease Act Britain gets U.S. war materials
• Atlantic Charter
• Self-determination
• Free trade
• 1940- Sel.Ser.?males 18-65

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III. Wartime Mobilization

• 260,000 women
• enlisted
• 2. Womens Army
• Corps

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• Women Appointed
• for Voluntary Emergency
• Service (WAVES)

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• 4. Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squandron
• Office of War
• Mobilization
• Unemployment
• vanishes

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Wartime Mobilization(contd)

• Price
• Administration
• Economic
• Stabilization
• Price floors/ceilings
• Tax code
• Rationing

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Wartime Mobilization(contd)

• 9. Americans saved?help spending after the war
• Nation debt ? 200 bill.
• War bonds
• OWI (Office of War Information)

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IV. Women and Minorities During Wartime

• Rosie the
• Riveter
• Women earned
• 2/3 of male salary.

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Women and Minorities During Wartime (contd)

1. Afr.-Am. move to industrial centers
2. Race riots

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• 5. Mex. Am.-return under bracero
• Program
• Nat. Am.- enlisted
• a. Navajo Code Talkers

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Bracero Program
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V. Japanese
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Japanese (contd)

1. 100,000 Japanese Am. relocated citizens
2. Executive Order 9066
3. Fear that Japanese-American citizens might turn
   on the U.S.
4. Only 30 foreign born
5. Korematsu v. United States, 1944

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VI. Diplomacy and Conferences
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Diplomacy and Conferences (contd)

1. Big Three FDR, Churchill, Stalin
2. Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
3. 1943, Casablanca
4. Invade Sicily
5. Unconditional Surrender
6. Nov. 1943Tehran
7. Seeds of D-Day sown
8. Stalin declare war against Japan

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Diplomacy and Conferences (contd)

• 1st disagreements
• Stalin wanted a buffer zone
• Churchill wanted a free Europe
• Feb. 1945, Yalta
• Stalin agreed to go to war w/Japan in 90 days
• Free Eastern Europe w/free elections
• Skeleton of the UN
• Germany divided into 4 zones

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Diplomacy and Conferences (contd)

1. April 12, 1945FDR dies
2. Potsdam Conference (Post-Nazi defeat)
3. Truman, Atlee, Stalin
4. Unconditional Surrender of Japan war-crimes
   tribunals occupation of Germany
5. Much disagreement?brink of a breakup

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