I. Intro:
Abraham
Lincoln Brigade
II. PEACE IN THE 1920s
A.
Isolation
B.
Washington Conference
C.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
D.
The Peace Movement
III. ISOLATION TO WAR
A.
Isolationist Tension:
1.
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (1934)
“Foreign markets must be regained if producers
are to rebuild a full and enduring domestic prosperity.” (FDR)
2.
Nye Committee
3.
Neutrality Acts
FDR: “no state has the
right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.”
4.
Ludlow Amendment
B.
Non-Belligerence:
1.
Stockpile Act
2.
Educational Orders Act
3.
Civilian War Resources Board
4.
Lend-Lease
5.
The Atlantic Charter
C.
War: Attack of Pearl Harbor
IV. War:
16
million men and women entered
1/8th in combat
1/8th in combat
33
months=average time of service
Four Freedoms:
“Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom
from want, freedom from fear.”
"All this inanimate wreckage around us was
little enough compensation for the human wreckage we hauled back and forth,
back and forth.”
Lunebach, Germany. (March 1945)
D-Day
Deception
in Modern War
Operation Fortitude
Operation Skye
British Fourth Army
First U.S. Army Group
June 6,
1944 (to June 11, 1944)
--4,100 landing craft
--12,000 landing support aircraft
-- 1,000 air transports (paratroopers)
--10,000 tons of bombs dropped
--14,000 attack sorties flown.
--in all, 47 divisions (140,000 troops)
World War Two was a Total War:
What does that mean?
1936: 82% of Americans say married women should
not work
1941-1944: 6 million new women in workforce,
increase of 57%
“Your first duty is your beauty”—cosmetic slogan
How does
this war end?
Hiroshima:
August 6, 1945 (100,000 dead)
Nagasaki:
August 8, 1945 (35,000 dead)
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