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Facism
Formed as a response to disrupted economic life and collapse of traditional political institutions in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan, whose nations instituted a powerful authoritarian militaristic governments
Hitler’s facism
combined centralized authoritarian, doctrine of Aryan racial supremacy, intense nationalism, and a spiritual awakening of Germans
Japan’s motivation for imperialism
wanted raw materials and colonies to become an industrial power (like Britain)
Leader of Italy and why he wanted to expand
Benito Mussolini; wanted overseas power and colonial resources
invaded Ethiopia, league condemned them but did nothing
Japans invasion of China
Occupied Manchuria, an industrial province, league condemned them but did nothing
Events that led to the rise of Hitler and Nazi party
WWI reparation payments
economic depression
fear of communism
labor unrest
rising unemployment
How Hitler gained power
The reichstag (German legislature) gave Hitler dictatorship powers to resolve the economic crisis. Hitler outlawed all other parties, jailed political opponents, and declared himself leader
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Included:
European Domination
plans to overturn the territorial settlements of the Treaty of Versailles
Unite Germany and create “Germany Fatherland”
annex inferior races
lebensraum
a new region in Germany after removing “inferior races” that allowed for settlement, farming, and natural resources
Rome-Berlin Axis
a political and military alliance between Italy, Germany, and Japan against Soviet Union, giving them military advantage
Nye Committee report
a report that said that munition makers coerced Wilson into WWI, caused congress to laws to prevent the nation from being drawn into war
“good war” meaning
American and British leaders saw it as defense against facism
Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936
1935: imposed embargo on selling weapons to warring countries and that Americans traveling to hostile nations were at risk
1936: Congress banned loans to belligerent (hostile) countries
1937s “cash and carry”
If warring countries wanted to buy non military goods from the US, they had to pay cash and carry their own ships to avoid naval warfare
Isolationists
Robert Taft; distrusted Roosevelt and European nations
National League of Mothers; anti communism, Christian morality, anti-semitism
Charles Lindbergh
First man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Face of the American First Committee to keep the US from joining the war through protests, posters, and brochures
Popular Front
Americans who wanted greater involvement in Europe
Types of people who joined: American Communist party, African American civil rights activists, trade unionists, left wing writers, intellectuals, New Deal administrators
Munich Conference
Britain and France agree to let Germany seize Sudetenland if he agreed to stop taking territory; he didn’t and war followed
Deal between Hitler and Stalin
signed a mutual non aggression pact that meant that Germany did not have to face war from Britain, France, AND soviet union
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
interventionists led by William White who wanted to engage with international developments
Destroyers for Bases deal
US gives 50 destroyers to Britain for the right to build military based on British territory
Acts congress approved in 1940
Peacetime draft
large increase in defense spending
Four Freedoms speech FDR
spoke of a future world order founded on the essential human freedoms including, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Lend Lease Act
allowed the president to lease, lend, or dispose of arms and equipment to Britain of any country vital to the safety of the US
Atlantic Charter
Called for economic cooperation, national self determination, and political stability after the war
Impact: Basis of American led transatlantic alliance after the war and set up future conflict with Asia and Africa colonies with Europe
Rape of Nanjing
Japan invaded Nanjing, massacred 300,000 chinese residents and raped thousands of women
Hideki Tojo
he occupied the French colony of Indochina and wanted to create a “greater east asia co-prosperity sphere” and match overseas empires of British and US
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombers killed many Americans in Hawaii and destroyed many war weapons
United the US against Japan and US joins war
War Powers Act and Imperial Presidency
Gave the president control over all aspects of the war effort; start of a far reaching use (and sometimes abuse) of executive power during late 20th century
Revenue Act of 1942
expanded the # of people paying income tax from 3.9 million to 42.6 million; to pay for the rest of the war
War production Board
awarded defense contracts, allocated scarce resources (rubber, copper, and oil) for military uses, and persuaded businesses to convert to wartime production
Liberty Ships
Henry Z Kaiser used Henry Fords model of mass production on these large ships that carried cargo and troops to the war zone
Military Industrial Complex
The largest corporations produced 70% of the US’s industrial output; complex= the relationship between the military, government, and businesses to increase military production
Code Talkers
Navajo Native Americans intercepted enemy messages and communicated orders in a language no other people could understand
Rosie the Riveter
A symbol for working women during the war; urged women to take jobs in defense industries
Double V Campaign
Called for victory over Nazisim as well as racisism in the US; didn’t make sense that they were fighting for freedom when there was still Jim Crow laws
Philip Randolph
demanded that the government require defense contractors to hire more black workers and suggested a March to Washington
Executive Order 8802
prohibited discrimination in employment of workers in defense industries because if race in response to the march to washington
Fair Employment Practices Commission
established by the Executive Order 8802; was a federal commitment to black employment rights
it was limited because it didnt affect segregation in the armed forces, and it couldnt enforce compliance with its orders.
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality, founded by James Farmer. They held direct action protests such as sit-ins.
Bracero Program
To meet wartime labor demands, the US brought tens of thousands of Mexican contract laborers into the US under this program. Braceros highlighted oppressive conditions of farm labor.
National War Labor Board
established wages, hours, and working conditions and had the authority to seize manufacturing plants that didnt comply.
Smith-Connally Labor Act
allowed president to prohibit strikes in defense industries and forbade political contributions by unions.
Second Bill of Rights
proposed by FDR, to guarantee all Americans access to education, jobs, food, clothing, housing, and medicare.
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
authorized the government to provide war veterans with funds for education, housing, healthcare, and loans to start businesses/buy homes.
Harry Truman
was chosen as new VP running mate for FDR. after FDR died, he became president.
victory gardens
backyard gardens that produced 40% of the nation’s vegetables
Office of War Information
disseminated news and promoted patriotism
Hollywood and the war effort
producers/actors offered their talents to the War Department. they portrayed heroic American soldiers in films.
rationing
Americans’ food, clothing, etc was regulated/rationed during the war. But some people secretly bought stuff on the black market.
zoot suits
oversized suits of clothing in fashion among young male blacks and Mexicans. they underlined rejection of middle class values.
Zoot suit riot - After a rumor of Mexicans beating a white sailor, whites attacked zoot suiters.
Executive Order 9066
Authorized the War Department to force Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes and hold them in relocation camps for the rest of the war.
War Relocation Authority
Moved the Japanese prisoners to camps in desolate areas. Ironically the ones in Hawaii, who were closer to Japan, were not imprisoned.
442nd Regimental Combat Unit
Composed almost entirely of Nisei volunteers, served with distinction in Europe.
Hirabayashi v. United States and Korematsu v. United States
in both cases, the Court allowed the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast on the basis of “military necessity”
Big Three (Grand Alliance)
FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.
What they agreed to do first: to defeat Germany.
What they disagreed on: military strategy and timing.
Stalin wanted to open a second front with a major invasion of Germany through France to relieve pressure on the Soviet Army.
What was agreed in Tehran: Churchill and FDR agreed to open the second front within 6 months, in return for Stalin’s promise to join the fight against Japan. The long delay angered Stalin.
D-Day
June 6, 1944 - the Allied invasion of northern France. Largest seaborne assault in history. Opened a 2nd front against Germans and moved Allies closer to victory in Europe.
Holocaust
Hitler’s extermination of 6 million Jews + 6 million other “undesirables”.
When it first began, the US refused to let fleeing Jews in.
SS St. Louis
A German ocean liner carrying 1000 Jewish refugees, sought permission from FDR to dock at an American port - FDR refused, and it was forced to return to Europe.
Battle of Bulge
Germanys final offensive
American and Britain drove toward Berlin West, while Soviet Union went East
Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders (May 7, 1945)
Final Solution
6 million jews and other undesireables like Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, and homosexuals, killed in Nazi camps
War Refugee Board after the war
helped move 200,000 European Jews to safe havens in other countries
Bataan death march
Forced surrender of US forces in philippines, death of 10,000 American prisoners of war
Battle of Coral Sea
used aircrafts to halt Japanese offensive against Australia (1942)
Battle of Midway
American navy severely damaged the Japanese fleet
Douglas Mac Arthur and Chester Nimitz and strategy
led offensive in the pacific, slowly toward Japan, taking one island after another
Battle of Leyte Gulf
reconquest of the Philippines, Japanese lose almost entire fleet
Kamikaze pilots
Japanese suicide planes flying into US ships
Death of FDR
April 12, 1945 of cerebral hemorrhage
Harry Truman becomes president
Manhattan Project
testing of the Atomic Bomb
2 billion $ and hidden from everyone
General Leslie Graves and Oppenheimer
Los Alamos, New Mexico
where the 1st successful bomb was tested
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truman and his advisors bomb Japan believing it’s the only way to get them to surrender
they surrender 1945 Sept 2
Impact on cities
hundreds of cities bombed and obliterated, Germany and Japans industrial economies in ruin
Impact of the war on Imperialism
Asia and Africa took Atlantic Charter seriously and imperialism was unacceptable
Dwight D Eisenhower
General that led allied troops to defeat German Afrika Corps
Potsdam Conference
Allies decided Japan could only be defeated with unconditional surrender
Gordon Hirabayashi
Among the nisei who actively resisted incarceration. Turned himself into FBI and had US v korematsu and Hirabayashi v US
Executive order of 8802
stopped discrimination of race in defense industries