Concept 7.

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Q: How do we promote international order while maintaining isolationism after WWI and before WWII?
Attitudes?

U.S. isolationism -

International investment
Dawes Plan in 1924

Conferences and treaties -

● Washington Naval Conference
● Five Power Treaty
● Nine Power Treaty
● Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

Military interventions in Latin America

● Dominican Republic
● Haiti
● Nicaragua
● “Good Neighbor” Policy

Neutrality Acts (1935, 36, 37,; 1939)

Arsenal of Democracy

“Cash and Carry” (1939)

“Bases for Destroyers” (1940)

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

Fascism:

Totalitarianism:

Nazi Germany:

America First Committee:

Asia:

Imperialists/Militarists:

America’s Stimson Doctrine (1932)

Pearl Harbor:
AP CLASSROOM - 7.12: World War II: Mobilization

Economic impact: preparations for war put Americans back to work and helped us get out of the Great
Depression; industrial and defense industries/jobs

Contributions to the war effort:

Sacrifices:
Draft: Actually started before officially entering the war;
Selective Service Act

Rationing: Basic consumer goods were rationed;

War Production Board:

Opportunities for women and minorities

● Socioeconomics: Improved for women during the war and AA overall , but not as much as politically
and socially
● “Rosie the Riveter”: Women obtained both economic and social opportunities; symbol of patriotism and
the war effort
● Racial segregation: Resulted in debates and laid a foundation for modern civil rights
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Double V campaign
- A. Philip Randolph
- Native Americans - Navajo Code Talkers -

Challenges to Civil Liberties

● Japanese Americans
- Internment of Japanese-Americans = More than 100k people were perceived as a threat to
national security
- Executive Order 9066
- Korematsu v. U.S = Constitutional because it was a wartime “necessity”

● German Americans
● Italian Americans
● Jewish Americans
● Mexican Americans
- Bracero Program - Mexican immigrants as wartime labor demands increased
- Zoot Suit Riots -

PROMPT: Evaluate the extent to which the Second World War changed the lives of
minorities in American society from 1941 to 1945.

African Americans Japanese Americans Jewish Americans Mexican Americans

Double V Campaign Internment Camp Holocaust Bracero Program

Tuskegee Airmen Executive Order #9066 Anti-Semitism Zoot Suit Riots
A. Phillip Randolph Korematsu v. U.S. case
Segregation/ Jim
 Crow

3 KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. War mobilization - Helped us overcome the Great Depression

2. Domestic issues - Impact with women and minorities

3. Migration patterns - Braceros

SAQs (pg. 561)

“Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and
against sabotage to national-defense….I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War...to prescribe
military areas...from which any and all persons may be excluded, with the respect to which, the right of any
person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or the
appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion.”
Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942

1. Using the excerpt, answer a), b), and c):

a) Briefly explain ONE specific effect that this order had on Japanese Americans
b) Briefly explain ONE specific Constitutional issue that was raised by this order
c) Briefly explain ONE additional effect that the wartime experience had on the civil rights movement in the
US.

U.S. Entrance in WWII

Pearl Harbour - Surprise Attack (4:48)
● Japan aggressive and determined
● Surprise attack
● Killed many civilian lives
● Bombed boats as well as harbor

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (Full Speech) | War Archives :34 -4:24
● “A date that will live in infamy”
● America was attacked by Japan (were peaceful)
● Lives lost and ships torpedoed

Japanese-Americans
Japanese-American Internment During WWII | History (3:38)
● Japan launched an attack on US
● Thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camp under the thought of unloyalty
● Was always resentment to immigrants
○ Grew after Pearl Harbor
● War Relocation Authority housed many Japanese Americans
● Internment camps in isolation
● Lived in 1 room apartments under constant surveillance
● Tried to create a community
● After 3 years they could return home
● Homes looted and possession gone
○ No assistance from federal government

African Americans
The Double V Campaign of World War II (2:53)
● More than 1 mil African Americans served
● AA at home were discriminated
● AA fought in all wars since US started
● Thought racism would get better after WWI
● Double V campaign
○ Victory over fascism abroad
○ Victory over racism at home
● Truman stopped desegregation of military

African Americans and the Civil Rights Movement During World War II (2:50)

Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? | Dogfights | History (5:54)

The Story Behind an American Hero, Ship's Mess Attendant Doris Miller (3:34)

Jewish Americans
GI JEWS: JEWISH AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II | Trailer | PBS
● Said ⅔ Jews weren’t coming back
● Concentration camps was worst experience for Jewish
● Wanted to reclaim who they were

Mexican Americans
The Bracero Program (2:50)

The Zoot Suit Riots (2:03)

Native Americans
Native Americans In World War 2 | Code Talkers Documentary (9:39)

Women
Beyond the Story: American Women During World War II (4:39)

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