World War 2

Japan Pre WW2

• Midevil

• Expand and fight the war

• Needed to either trade or conquer since they had no natural resources on the island

  • They Conquer

Hoover Stimson

Denounce Japan’s expansion

Peace Movement - Good Neighbor Policy

The U.S. allied with Latin America - common front against facsim

London Economic Conference

Break away from Isolationism

Kellogg Brand Pact

signed by 62 countries - said war was bad

Disarmament

want to disarm after war and depression to prevent another war

Washington peace Conference

• 5 power treaty

• 9 power treaty

5 power treaty

US established quota of number of ships need, based of need - bigger countries need more ships

9 Power Treaty

Upheld the Open door policy

Roosevelt in 1940

Scared of the war and figured FDR would be the best choice

Appeasment

Apeased Hitler - let him take the land

Poland 9-1-39

Hitler Invades Poland - start of ww2

Neutrality Acts

Kept the US out of war

Land Lease

Lended arms to other countries for a greater nation (First england then soviets)

Antlantic Charter

Churchill and FDR meeting - Secret, left soviets out

Gas Embargo

Put gas embargo on Japaneese, most cas came from the US

Pearl Harbor

• Gas embargo led to this

• Dec. 7, 1941 - Japan sunk the entire US pacific fleet

• US official enters war

Japaneese Internment (1942)

• All Japanese put into Internment camps after pear harbor - afraid they were spies, ect. Even American citizens

• Hirabayshi v US

• Koremastu v US

• Gained from apology in 1998 - $20,000 pension

St. Louis

• Passanger ship with Jews - left Germany to escape Nazis, went to Cuba and if you count pay for off the rest were sent to consentration camps

Mobilization in US

• Propaganda spread war

• War bonds supported war

• Rationing (Ex. 3 gallons of gas per week)

• Victory Gardens: Were 85% of our food came from - farms feed war overseas

2 Groups

• Tuskegee Airman: Group of African American fighter pilots, flew many missions - no deaths

• 442: All Japanese out of internment camps, only faught in europe

War plan - Germany

Worry about Germany first - 2 front war

Teheron Conference (1943)

• First conference

• FDR, Churchill and Stalin

• Discussion: 2nd front promised (happens in June of 44) come together to fight as a group

• D-Day

• VE-Day

D-Day

Invasion of Normandy, start of second front (June 44)

VE-Day

Victory in Europe (May, 1945)

War in pacific: Japan

• Island hopping

• Manhattan project

Manhattan Project

Building of nuclear bomb (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) - Truhman says to drop the bomb to save time, money, lives and scare communists

Yalta (1945)

• Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin

• Roosevelt's health bad

• East Europe - divided it into 4 for the four of us (us, Frace, Russia, England)

• Ending war - told Germany they need to surender there will be no seasfire

• Our Berlin territory in Comminist area

• UN - United nations

• Germany unconditional surrender

Potsdam (July 1945)

• Roosevelt has died

• Stalin, Truhman and Atlee (GB prime minister)

• Post war positioning

• Common enemy gone: Hitler - no need for Us to be allied - Cold War

• US atomic bomb

• Unconditional surrender - Japan : Told Japan there would be no truce

Communist vs. Non Communist

• North and east: Communist

• South and West: Non communist