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The United States Reacts. National Defense at any Expense but Keep Our Boys at Home. ISOLATIONISM. The United States Reacts. Neutrality Acts (keep US out of war) No passage on ships belonging to warring nations No loans or credit to warring nations Page 396 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The United States Reacts
National Defense at any Expense
but
Keep Our Boys at Home
ISOLATIONISM
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The United States Reacts
• Neutrality Acts (keep US out of war)– No passage on ships belonging to warring
nations– No loans or credit to warring nations– Page 396
• Lend-Lease Act (help other countries)– Federal gov’t power– Lend or rent military goods– $50 billion – Page 397
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Pearl Harbor
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Explosion of the USS Shaw
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USS West Virginia (foreground) USS Tennessee (background).
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USS California
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USS Maryland (left) and the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma
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USS Arizona
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Airfield at
Ford Island
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The War Begins
• F.D.R. (1882-1945) • 32nd President of the
United States • Franklin Delano Roos
evelt - Pearl Harbor Address
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The War Continues
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Georgia’s Contribution to the War
• 300,000 Georgia men and women
• 7,000 died
• Women served as nurses, clerks, and pilots (WAVS)
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B-29s
• Bell Aircraft
• Marietta, GA
• 28,000 jobs
• 6,000 women
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Liberty Ships
• 447-foot long
• Brunswick 16,000 jobs
• Savannah
• 200 ships built
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Military Training
• Camp Stewart (Fort Stewart)• Camp Gordon (Fort Gordon)• Fort Benning• Warner Robins Air Force Base
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The Impact of the War at Home
• German attacks at St. Simons Island
• Victory Gardens
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The Impact of the War at Home
• Ration cards
• Racial tension–Camp
Stewart Riot• Page 411
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Concentration Camps
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D-Day
• June 6, 1944
• Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
• 600 ships
• 175,000 Allied soldiers
• 11,000 airplanes
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V – E Day
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The Pacific Theater
MidwayIwo Jima
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Atomic Bomb
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V – J Day
• Victory in Japan
• August 14, 194520 million killed worldwide
• 400,000 Americans
• 21 million victims– Orphans– Prisoners– Survivors of Nazi concentration camps– Refugees from war-torn areas