WWII

The Lead-up to War

Depression

“Men and women all over the world were seriously contemplating and frankly discussing the possibility that the Western system of Society might break down and cease to work.”

AutarkyEconomic independence or self-sufficiency

FascismRadical authoritarian nationalism

Two StrategiesSelf-sufficiency

Free trade

Isolationism

Global Outlook“The Arsenal for Democracy” (Dec. 29, 1940)

The Four Freedoms Speech (Jan. 6, 1941)

The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)

The US Goes to WarPearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcOI6GrcDvM

The Homefront

Total War

Jobs & Enlisting

Portraying the Enemy

Protecting Soldiers

Contributing to the war effort

Ironies

American Anti-Semitism

The St. Louis, 1939

938 Jewish refugees

Japanese Internment Camps

Over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage

62% of internees were US citizens

The Aftermath

How was the war won?The Western front

The Eastern front

A New Global Outlook

The “Good War”?

The GI Bill

The Marginalized and the War

Women

African AmericansSegregation in the defense industries & armed

forces A. Philip Randolph

Double V Campaign

Ethnic Americans

The GI Bill