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WWII
The Lead-up to War
Depression
“Men and women all over the world were seriously contemplating and frankly discussing the possibility that the Western system of Society might break down and cease to work.”
AutarkyEconomic independence or self-sufficiency
FascismRadical authoritarian nationalism
Two StrategiesSelf-sufficiency
Free trade
Isolationism
Global Outlook“The Arsenal for Democracy” (Dec. 29, 1940)
The Four Freedoms Speech (Jan. 6, 1941)
The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)
The US Goes to WarPearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcOI6GrcDvM
The Homefront
Total War
Jobs & Enlisting
Portraying the Enemy
Protecting Soldiers
Contributing to the war effort
Ironies
American Anti-Semitism
The St. Louis, 1939
938 Jewish refugees
Japanese Internment Camps
Over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage
62% of internees were US citizens
The Aftermath
How was the war won?The Western front
The Eastern front
A New Global Outlook
The “Good War”?
The GI Bill
The Marginalized and the War
Women
African AmericansSegregation in the defense industries & armed
forces A. Philip Randolph
Double V Campaign
Ethnic Americans
The GI Bill