The United States Reacts

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

• Lend-Lease Act (help other countries)– Federal gov’t power– Lend or rent military goods– $50 billion – Page 397

Pearl Harbor

Explosion of the USS Shaw

USS West Virginia (foreground) USS Tennessee (background).

USS California

USS Maryland (left) and the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma

USS Arizona

Airfield at

Ford Island

The War Begins

• F.D.R. (1882-1945) • 32nd President of the

United States • Franklin Delano Roos

evelt - Pearl Harbor Address

The War Continues

Georgia’s Contribution to the War

• 300,000 Georgia men and women

• 7,000 died

• Women served as nurses, clerks, and pilots (WAVS)

B-29s

• Bell Aircraft

• Marietta, GA

• 28,000 jobs

• 6,000 women

Page 405

Liberty Ships

• 447-foot long

• Brunswick 16,000 jobs

• Savannah

• 200 ships built

Page 405

Military Training

• Camp Stewart (Fort Stewart)• Camp Gordon (Fort Gordon)• Fort Benning• Warner Robins Air Force Base

The Impact of the War at Home

• German attacks at St. Simons Island

• Victory Gardens

The Impact of the War at Home

• Ration cards

• Racial tension–Camp

Stewart Riot• Page 411

Concentration Camps

D-Day

• June 6, 1944

• Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

• 600 ships

• 175,000 Allied soldiers

• 11,000 airplanes

V – E Day

The Pacific Theater

MidwayIwo Jima

Atomic Bomb

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