Americans and a World in Crisis,

1933 – 1945

Chapter 25

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• E: 1: a Describe the circumstances at home and abroad prior to US involvement in WWII

• E: 1: b Identify the significant military and political aspects of WWII

• E: 1: c Analyze dimensions of the Holocaust and the Allies response to the Holocaust and war crimes

• E: 1: d Evaluate the social, political, and economic impacts of WWII on the home front

• E:1: e Identify and evaluate the scientific and technological developments in America during and after WWII

• E:1: f Analyze the social, cultural, and economic changes at the onset of the Cold War era

Core Standards

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Readings

• Read the entire chapter.

• Expect reading quiz each day.

• Pp. 764-774

• Pp. 774-782

• Pp. 782-794

Even the German soldiers knew to do

their readings!

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Introduction

• Eugene Bondurant Sledge

• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

• Read his book, you’ll love his colorful language

• When I knew

• Dr. Sledge he

• looked like this.

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The United States in a Menacing World, 1933-1939

• Italy

• Germany

• Japan

• World toward a precipice

• Neutrality

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Nationalism and the Good Neighbor

• “Good Neighbor Policy” FDR

• Aid to Cuba – Fulgencio Batista

– Overthrown by Castro in 1959

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The Rise of Aggressive States in Europe and Asia

• Adolf Hitler• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs&skipcontrinter=1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-nQgLehpE&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDUfLX0mTA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-Xryw_hKA

Appeasement

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German Propaganda

• Joseph Goebbels

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Luftwaffe

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Map 25.1: European Aggression Before World War II

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The American Mood: NO MORE WAR

• Neutrality Acts

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Map 25.2: Japanese Expansion Before World War II

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The Gathering Storm

• Joseph Stalin• Nonaggression pact• Mussolini: “FDR’s

paralysis must have reached his brain!”

• FDR takes action:– 300 million for military– 20,000 planes per year– 1.3 Billion Defense Plan– “two Madmen” who only

respect force

Stalin’s Kemlin

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America and the Jewish Refugees

• Kristallnacht• (Night of Broken glass)

• June 1939• St Louis• 950 Jews turned away on

ship in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (most died in Concentration Camps)

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Into the Storm, 1939-1941

• Rome-Berlin-Toyko Axis

• America is getting pushed to help

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British Monarchy

• George V

• Edward VIII– Abdicated

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBn06A-sdok

– George VI• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkMyKGx7TQ

• Elizabeth– Charles

• William• Harry

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The European War

• Poland

• Blitzkrieg

• Wehrmacht

• Winston Churchill

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc

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Dunkirk

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8q45vwf-0&feature=related

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From Isolation to Intervention

• Draft

• Lend-Lease

• Atlantic Charter

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Pearl Harbor and the

Coming of War

• December 7, 1941

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoUtoQLGQY

• Pentagon

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Organizing for Victory

• War Production Board (WPB)

• Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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The War Economy

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Figure 25.1A: U.S. Wartime Production

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Figure 25.1A: U.S. Wartime Production (cont’d)

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Figure 25.1A: U.S. Wartime Production (cont’d)

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“A Wizard War” Winston Churchill

• Office of Scientific Research Development

• Manhattan Project

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Propaganda and Politics

• Office of War Information

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The Battlefront, 1942-1944

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Map 25.3: World War II in Europe and Africa

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Liberating Europe• French

resistance

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North AfricaGeorge Smith Patton, Jr.

Bernard Montgomery

Erwin Rommel

Dwight D. Eisenhower landed troops in Morocco and Algeria

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Battle of Stalingrad

• Stalin wanted two fronts

Soviet Snipers at Stalingrad

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Battle of Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

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Invasion of Sicily

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D-Day, June 6, 1944

• Omaha

• Sword

• Juno

• Utah

• Gold

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Break Out from Normandy

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Battle of the Bulge

• Bastogne

• “Nuts!”

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Atrocities Against Americans During WWII

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Abuse of Americans by Japanese

• Bataan Death March• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=SnNf57112nI&feature=endscreen

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War in the Pacific

• Philippines fall in May 1942

• MacArthur “I shall return!”• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbwuehH35I

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Bill Grant

• Sting of the Wasp

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Map 25.4: World War II in the Pacific

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Battle of Coral Sea

• Admiral Thomas Kinkaid

• Admiral Nimitz

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Battle of Midway

US Signal Corps breaks Japanese codes

4 Japanese destroyers sunk

Hundreds of Japanese planes lost

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Guadalcanal

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Solomon Islands

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British move from India to retake Burma

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US Begins Two-Pronged Advance

• June 1943

• Retake of Philippines

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Mjbw0GBog

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Okinawa and Possible Invasion of Japan

• “Give ‘em the hot seat!”

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The Grand Alliance

• Roosevelt• Churchill• Giraud• De Gaulle• Casablanca• January 1943• First president to

travel abroad by plane while in office!

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Invasion of Italy

• Battle of Anzio• Tuskegee Airmen

– Red Tails

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Grand Alliance in Cairo

• Roosevelt

• Churchill

• Chiang Kai-shek– Anti-communist– Return Manchuria– Return Taiwan– “Free and

Independent Korea from USSR

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Grand Alliance in Tehran, Iran

• Roosevelt• Churchill• Stalin

– Invasion of France in June 1944

– Divide Germany into 4 military zones

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Domestic Issues

• Henry Wallace

• Harry S. Truman– Moderate

• Missouri• 1944 election

• Thomas E. Dewey

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War and American Society

• 15 million Americans served

• Women

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The GIs’ War

• “KILLROY WAS HERE!”

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War Bonds

“Buy a war bond, Darling…..”

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Map 25.5: The Home Front

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The Home Front

• Rosie the Riveter

• Victory Gardens

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Racism and New Opportunities

• A. Philip Randolph

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War and Diversity

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Interment of Japanese-Americans

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Triumph and Tragedy, 1945

• Yalta Conference “accords”– Russia declares

war on Japan– FDR “gives away

eastern Europe– Roosevelt very

tired

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Roosevelt DEAD!

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Victory in Europe

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Holocaust

• Jews

• Concentration

Camps

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Atomic Bombs

• Truman

• Potsdam Declaration

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USS Indianapolis

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Final Victory

• V-E Day• V-J Day

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The War’s Toll on America

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Conclusion