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
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