Isolationism to WWII

• Know how the labor force was impacted during WWII in the United States • Understand the implications of Pearl Harbor • Know the Neutrality Acts and what they accomplished • Know what the purpose of FDR’s Quarantine Speech was • Purpose of the United States using Atomic weapons on Japan • Know the different types of technology that were created during WWII • Be able to explain both the Yalta and Potsdam conferences

Women’s’ main contribution to WWII

Taking over the workforce (6.5 women entered)

African American’s contributions to WWII

more than 2.9 billion registered for the draft

1 million served in the war

forced to be in segregated units, but eventually demanded all black combat units

Native American’s contributions to WWII

enlisted in the military more than any other minority group

PACIFIC CAMPAIN

Code callers

Navajos complex, unwritten language used as a code, creating the Navajo code callers

Mexican Americans contributions in WWII

served in the army and navy

bracero program- millions of mexican “guest workers” needed due to labor shortages

Lend-Lease act

allowed the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nations that were necessary to the defense of the United States

Cash and carry policy

Passed in ‘39

allowing belligerents to purchase us arms if it used its own ships and paid in cash

Korematsu v. United States

Forced relocation was supported by the supreme court

Internment of Japanese Americans

Forced relocation into internment camps because people were scared that the Japanese Americans would sabotage the US

impact the war had on the United States Economy

women took over industries preventing collapse

the switch to many major industries producing war materials gave the us a lot of money

there was a shortage of civilian needed materials

D-Day

156,000 allied troops under general Eisenhower invaded Norway

Yalta conference

the big three met in Yalta

divided Germany into occupation zones

Soviets would enter the war against Japan

Soviets would control the southern half of some Pacific islands

the United Nations was formed

Potsdam Conference

FDR passed away in 1945 with Harry Truman taking over

After Germany surrendered, only Stalin remained of the big three

Stalin and the new leaders met and decided:

To demand that Japanese surrender unconditionally

Hold war crime trials on the Nazi leaders

Implications of Pearl Harbor

It brought the US together in unity

It forced the US into the war

the big three

stalin, Churchill, FDR

new technology

atomic bombs

radar

penicillin

purpose of the quarantine speech

to “quarantine” Japan from the world because of and the “epidemic of world lawlessness”

Tuskegee Airmen

African American fighter pilots in the air force

neutrality act of 1935

authorized the president to prohibit arms shipments and travel on belligerent nations’ ships

neutrality act of 1936

forbid extension of loans and credits to belligerents

neutrality act of 1937

forbid shipment of arms to the opposing sides in the SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Belligerents

Aggressive foreign powers