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Ch25 WW2 80 Slides
Ch25 WW2 80 Slides
Introduction
The Second World War was the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the worlds seven continents and all of its oceans. It killed fifty million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization John Keegan, military historian.
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Introduction
The conflict began in 1939 with a blitzkrieg (lightening war) of German tanks on the plains of Poland. It ended in 1945 when American planes dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soldiers and civilians danced in the streets around Times Square in New York in August 1945.
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The Kiss
Soldiers and civilians danced in the streets around Times Square in New York in August 1945.
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Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler began to rearm Germany in violation of the Versailles treaty. 1936, he sent troops into the Rhineland.
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Politics in wartime
There were few attempts to promote progressive social reform during WWII. Roosevelt ended several New Deal work programs due to full employment. 1944, in the State of the Union address, FDR called for a second bill of rights which would guarantee Americans access to education, jobs, food and clothing and decent housing and medical care.
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Politics in wartime
The President sought to reinvigorate the New Deal political coalition in the elections of 1944. Party leaders, concerned about FDRs health, dropped Henry Wallace from the ticket and replaced him with Harry S. Truman of Missouri. The Republicans nominated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
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Politics in wartime
Dewey was known for his approval of the use of torture in interrogations against the Mafia. He supported the general principles of welfare state liberalism, and internationalism in foreign affairs. The majority of voters preferred continuity, giving Roosevelt 53.5 percent of the vote. The Democratic coalition stood triumphant, the era of Republican dominance (18961932) was over.
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Wartime prosperity
20 million backyard victory gardens produced 40% of the nations vegetables. The war time brought prosperity.
Defense spending ended the depression, Unemployment had vanished. Per capita income doubled.
The only major inconvenience was the shortage of consumer goods. There was a scarcity of rubber due to Japanese conquests of Malaysia.
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Congress issues a public apology in 1988 and awarded $20,000 to each of the 80,000 surviving Japanese-Americans.
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Fighting and Winning the War Wartime Aims and Tensions The War in Europe The War in the Pacific Planning the Postwar World
D-Day
June 6, 1944, D-Day The long-awaited invasion of France. The largest armada ever assembled crossed the English Channel under the command of Dwight Eisenhower. After terrible casualties, more than 1.5 million soldiers and thousands of tons of military supplies and equipment flowed into France. August, Allied troops liberated Paris. Sept. Germans were driven out of most of France and Belgium. (p.751)
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Summary
The rise of fascism in Germany, Italy and Japan led to military expansionism in Europe, Africa and China. Initially the American public favored noninvolvement. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the nation into war. War mobilization greatly expanded the federal government.
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Summary
It also boosted geographical and social mobility. Women, rural whites and blacks took up work in new defense plants. Government rules assisted the labor movement and the African American campaign for civil rights. Religious and racial animosity caused the exclusion of German Jewish refugees and the internment of 120,00 Japanese Americans.
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Summary
Germany and Japan almost won the war in 1942 The allies took the offensive in 1943. The Soviets advanced in Europe and the U.S. navy advanced in the Pacific. The U.S. emerged from the war with an undamaged homeland, sole possesion of the atomic bomb and a series of unresolved disputes with the Soviet Union.
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