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World War 2
- Internment and Xenophobia
- Executive Order 9066 decision
- long lasting anti Japanese
sentiment
- vengance after pearl harbour
- physical differences made
them an enemy race
- military advisors minipulated
information
- designated certian areas as
military zones, removed
J-A's from their homes to
internment camps on the
interrior
- Hirabayashi
- court declared cerfews
amungst minority groups
was constitutional when
nation was at war with the
country
- Koremastu
- court declared internment
of american citizens with
japanese dissent was
constitutional
- reasoning- prevent internal
dammage by those who may be loyal
to Japan, impossible to distingush
loyal from disloyal so they went for
everyone
- Ex Partie Endo (1944)- court ruled
that citizens who were loyal could
not be interned by the
government
- mexicans were also
targeted, people would
beat them up on the
street especially in CA
- lack of responce by FDR to the
holocaust- antisemetic feelings in
the US and fear of massive jewish
immigration
- simmilar to JA internment-
caused the hesitation by
FDR to approve
- The European Theater
- American Responce
- Germany invades Poland
- cash & carry- money and munitions
but allies have to come here to get it
- Germany defeats France
- Lend lease- Cash without carry
- Japan continues attack on China
- ban on trade (oil embargo)
- Pearl Harbour
- declaration of war on Japan
- Atlantic Charter- people
have right to govern them
selves w/out dictator
- conrtibution by the allies
- supplied 50% of all goods
- mobile army- men
were very handy
- invasion of Normandy- americans had fast mobile army
- D-day- won bc many troops and supplies
- Dresdon- intense fire bombing
(pilots felt bad)
- US had low amount of
civilian death- not fighting on
their own territory
- soviets lost many people
because of poor decisions
- VE day- war is over, divide up
countries, hitler kills himself
- The Home Front
- American View
- stay isolated
- horrifired by past events
- Women
- challenges
- payed less
- men didnt think they
could do as well as
them
- each represented a
man gone to war
- continued to
have to clean
house/ kids
- bennefits
- felt needed
- got social security
numbers
- payed more than
previous jobs
- type of work
- everything related to
war effort
- riveting, sifting
gunpowder etc
- Propaganda
- fear- protect children
- guilt- gave brother/
son/ husband, what
will you give
- Revenue Act of 1941-
raised taxes to get money
for the war
- The Atomic Age
- Manhattan Project- scientists work to
make nuclear bomb before Germany, when it
was finnished my scientists worried
about the strength of the bomb
- Potsdam Conference- separation of Germany and
other countries, US want for Japans unconditional
surrender, US had power after discovery of atomic
bomb
- signed by England, China, and Japan
- significance- US drops bomb of Japan, Russia
declares war and Japan does not respond to
surrender request, US drops another bomb
- Yalta conference- Roosevelt, Stalin, and
Churchill meet, three would join to draft a UN
charter (gave council responcibility for keeping peace
- contraversey- much info was kept secret, Americans
didnt trust Russia, but Roosevelt wanted to keep a
working relationship with them