The document is a series of lecture slides about how the US was transformed during World War 2 from 1939-1946. It covers the shift from isolationism to involvement in the war, including fighting in both the Pacific and Europe. It also discusses how the war effort mobilized the home front through the government-business partnership and industrial boom, as well as the entrance of more women and minorities into the workforce. Finally, it addresses the end of the war with victory in Europe and Japan's surrender, followed by the conversion to a peacetime economy.
1. A Nation Transformed: The US in WWII
1939-1946
US History Survey Mini-Lectures
1865 to the Present
2. Week 10 Virtual Classroom
The Origins of the Second World War
Mini-Lecture 1: Militarism and Fascism
Abroad; From Isolationism to
Internationalism; The End of the New Deal
26. A Nation Transformed: The US in WWII
1939-1946
US History Survey
1865 to the Present
27. Week 10 Virtual Classroom
Mobilizing the Home Front
Mini-Lecture 3: Government-Business
Partnership; The Wartime Industrial Boom;
Labor’s War at Home
36. A Nation Transformed: The US in WWII
1939-1946
US History Survey
1865 to the Present
37. Week 10 Virtual Classroom
Economic Citizenship for All?
Mini-Lecture 4: Women in the Workforce;
Origins of the Modern African American
Civil Rights Movement; The Limits of
Pluralism
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The Great "isms" of the 20th Century
1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years
US Move to Intervention
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1931 Japanese Invasion of Machuria, Part of "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere"
1937 Japanese capture of Nanking While Chinese Embroiled in Civil War (Mao Zedong vs. Chiang Kai-shek)
American Ideas of Chinese (Peaceful Peasants) vs. Japanese (Yellow Peril)
1935 Italian Invasion of Ethiopia
1933 Germany Elects Adolph Hitler as Chancellor -- Germany Withdraws from the League and Starts to Rearm Germany
Spring 1936 German Troops in the Rhineland
1937 Axis Forms (Japan, Italy and Germany)
Hitler Annexes Austria and Demands Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Munich, Sept. 1938 Neville Chamberlain "Peace in Our Time"
By March 1939, Germany had Annexed Call of Czechoslovakia
Sept. 1, 1939 - Germany Invades Poland and France and Britain Declare War on Germany
June 1940 - France Falls
June 22, 1941 - Germany Invades Russia
World War I and the "Merchants of Death"
Late 1930s Sentiment Shifing From Isolation to Internationalism
Case of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
Picture of "Volunteers of America" and Abe Osheroff's Speech
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Nazi Conquest of Europe in Spring 1940 - Americans Began War Preparation (Trippled War Dept. Budget and Enacted the Draft)
March 1941 - Lend-Lease to Finance the Allies: America to be the "Arsenal of Democracy"
August 1941 - Atlantic Charter (US-Britain) Brings US Sea Power Into War (See Map)
Next Americans Freeze All Japanese Assets in the US
America First Committee in US Holds on to Isolationist Committee (Charles Lindberg) - Conservative Isolationists' Anti-Semetism
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1940 FDR Replaces Key Posts With Conservatives and Advocates of Intervention
Move to "Tame and Contain" Unionism
January 1941 FDR Appoints a National Defense Mediation Board
April 1941 UAW Strike at Ford's River Rouge Complex. Ford Becomes a Union Shop.
June 1941 Strike at a California Aircraft Plant, FDR Sends in 2,500 Troops and Ends Strike
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December 7, 1941 - Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (2,400 Soldiers and Sailors Died)
"War Without Mercy" In the Pacific Theater
General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz (1941-2) Advances "Bathed in Blood"
Soviets Holding Off German Invasion - Germans Surrender in January 1943
1942-3 Soviets Had Pushed for the Allies to Open a Second Front in Europe to Relieve Pressure on Russia
Instead Allies Focused on Mediterranean Theater
And Allies Launched Arial Bombardment on German Industry - Area Bombing of Cities in Germany
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June 6, 1944 Final Year of the War Allies Open Second Front With Normandy Invasion
1944 American Troops Saw Battle In Europe
"Coming Out Under Fire" (Blue Discharges)
Jim Crow in the Army, The Tuskegee Airmen, and the Battle of the Bulge
Mexican American and Native American Experiences (Navajo Code Talkers)
September 1943 - Government Blocked Publication of American KIAs
Sketch of Army Camp Life in Italy
Poster of "True Towel Tales"
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New Deal Replaced With Wartime Control of the Economy and Near Full Employment by 1943
New Rules of the Road for Government Business Relations: Anti-Trust Out; Government Built Plants; Low Interest Rates: "Cost Plus" Contracts
The New "Dollar a Year" Men
Office of Price Administration and War Manpower Commission
Wave of Corporate Consolidations With Small Businesses Pushed Aside
Chesterfied Poster Linking Buying to Patriotism
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Manual Labor Required for Industry, Boom in Blue Collar Employment
Benefits to the American West (ex. Aviation Industry in California)
Full Employment; African American Migration to the North; Massive Redistribution of Wealth and Dramatic Rise in Standard of Living
Vision of Cultural Pluralism that Included "White Ethnics" But Did Not Cross the Color Line
Chart of Wages (Note 1945 Dip)
Picture of Detroit Labor Exchange Job Board in July 1941
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No Strike Pledges and Maintenance of Membership Policies
"Speed Ups" and Safety Issues - Work Stoppages as Unpatriotic
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers
June 1943 Congress Passes Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act Over FDR's Veto
November 1943 UMW Stike, FDR Seizes Mines & Threatens to End Miners' Draft Exemptions -- In the end Miners Got The Pay Raise (Cartoon on UMW Strike)
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New Deal Replaced With Wartime Control of the Economy and Near Full Employment by 1943
War Manpower Commission Campaign to Recruit Women & "Rosie the Riveter" (Popular Song)
Continued Segregation into Lower Wage Jobs and Resistance to Training Women
Issue of Child Care - Inadequate Attempt at Day Care Programs
Chart Showing Employment Trends in WWII
Photo of Workers Getting Off Work at Richmond, CA Shipyard (Sept. 1943)
Oral History Video of a "Rosie the Riveter"
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Northern Migration
NAACP Challenged "Whites Only" Primaries (Thurgood Marshall)
Double V Symbol
War Labor Board Ordered End to Wages Based on Race
CIO Multiracial Union Drive & Defense of African American Housing Rights in Detroit
1943 Race Riots in Detroit
1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles (Mexican-Americans)
1940 Plans March on Washington
Roosevelt Administration Established the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
Attack by Sen. James Eastland - FEPC as "Communist Program for Racial Amalgamation
1944 Intervention in the North - FEPC Order in Phili to Promote Eight African Americans to Streetcar Drivers, White Workers With on Strike, 8,000 Soldiers Ended Strike
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1939 Turning Away Jews Fleeing Europe (Case of the St. Louis) &Treatment of Conscientous Objectors
Worst Treatment for Japanese Americans, the "Enemy Race"
March 1942 All Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be put in "Relocation" Camps
Irony of Young Japanese in American Army Liberating Dachau While Parents at Home Behind Barbed Wire in Camps
Army Manual - "How to Tell a Chinese from a Jap" & Map of "Geography of Shame"
Government Film Justifying Relocation & Interview With "Mr. Sulu"
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Triumph of American Production: By 1944 US Alone Producing Half of All Goods Manufactured GLOBALLY!
D-Day to VE Day to VJ Day
D-Day: June 6, 1944, 156,000 American Troops Hit the Beaches at Normandy ... Saving Private Ryan
By Sept. 1944 France and Belgium Fall to the Allies
December 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge" - German Counter-Attack in the Ardennes Forrest
March 1945 Eisenhower Crosses the Rhine River Into Germany
US Army Films of Concentration Camps
April 12, 1945 Roosevelt Died, Harry Truman Became President
Truman Did Not Change War Goal of "Unconditional Surrender"
April 30, Soviet Troops Surround Berlin and Hitler Commits Suicide
May 7, 1945 Germany Surrendered Unconditionally
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Photo of American Troops in Battle of Peleliu Island in September 1944
Context of Brutality of Pacific Theater Combat on Both Sides (Recent Clint Eastwood Films - Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/
Dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima (Aug 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 8)
Hiroshima - 80,000 People Died Instantaneously, 10s of Thousands Died Later
Nagasaki - 35,000 Died Immediately (60,000 Injured)
August 6, 1945 Photo of Survivors One Mile From Ground Zero
Japan Surrendered on September 2, 1945
Bombings Had Made the Manhattan Project Public Knowledge
"US and Britain Waiting on Soviet Invasion of Manchuria; Truman Didn't Wait ...
Was it Necessary? Eisenhower Thought Not
Feb. 1945 FDR's Meeting With Stalin and Churchill at Yalta
July 1945 Truman's Meeting With Stalin and Churdchill at Potsdam
1945 Documentary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What Would Happen When the Boys Came Home?
G.I. Bill of Rights
Price Controls at Issue:
Industry Emerged Hostile to Government Control: Labor Party Victory in Britain
American Labor Resented Loss of Workers' Spending Power Due to Decrease in Overtime
Labor Activism in the Military in 1945
Wave of Strikes in 1946
Chart of Deficit Spending in Peace and War
Cartoon "Welcome Back" - Returning GIs and the Housing Crisis
"Tests Have Shown ... That Our Three Average Men are Equal" (Still From a 1946 Interracial Organizing Drive of the UAW)
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