IMPERIALISM

PROGRESSIVE ERA

ROARING 20s

GREAT DEPRESSION

WW1

INTERWAR YEARS

WW2

• bombing of pearl harbor

• ABC-1 agreement

  • if u.s. entered war, first efforts would go towards Germany, then japan

• national unity during ww2 sped up the assimilation of immigrants

• japanese amerncans were forced into concentration camps

  • executive order 9066

  • korematsu v. u.s. ruled the camps were constitutional

• war production board - oversaw war production

  • stopped production of nonessential items

• office of price administration brought down scarcity of consumer goods that led to inflation

• war labor board - imposed ceilings on wage increases

  • labor unions were unhappy and called members to go on strike

  • smith-conally anti-strike act - authorized govt to operate industries under strike like coal mnes and railroads

• bracers - Mexican agricultural workers

• women enlisted in military

  • WAACs - women in army

  • WAVES - women in navy

  • SPARs - women in coast guard

• fair employment practices commission - used to monitor compliance with FDR executive order that forbade discrimination n defense industries

• mechanical cotton picker - cotton south’s need for cheap labor disappeared, so many blacks moved NORTH cause and effect.

• native Americans served in army forces and made contributions as “CODE TALKERS” - transmitted radio messages in native languages, which axis powers could not understand

• national debt rose under FDR

• japan got complete control over the Philippines

  • crucial battle at CORAL SEA - stopped Japanese advancement

  • naval battle near MIDWAY - japanwese retreated. turning point in the pacific war.

• roosevelt, Churchill, and stalin met in tehran to coordinate a second front. agreed on broad plans. eisenhower was given command.

  • invaded frnace, ormandy

• battle of buldge

  • allies were driven back, creating a “buldge” in the allowed front

  • they discovered the concentration camps where jews were mistreated during the holocaust

• soviets captured berlin

• hitler committed suicide 1945

• Manhatten project - developed atomic bomb

  • hirohipa and nagasaki