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