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WORLD WAR II
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WORLD WAR II
• American Foreign Policy and the Coming of World War II
• Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928)• Isolationism
WORLD WAR II
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
WORLD WAR II
WORLD WAR II
– Neutrality Acts– Appeasement of Hitler– Hitler’s blitzkrieg (Spring 1940)– FDR and Isolationism
• Lend-Lease (1941)
Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
“Taxis to Hell--and Back” Robert Sargent
Battle of MidwayJune 1942
Manhattan Project
WORLD WAR IITHE HOMEFRONT
• World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity– John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US
national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics
• Women and World War II• African Americans and World War II
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