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AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II

CHAPTER 35

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December 7th 1941

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The Allies Trade Space For Time

After Pearl Harbor, the free world was on the edge of disaster

Japan running amok in Pacific and Germany might drive England to the wall before US aid could stem the tide.

ABC-1 agreement Why is stopping Hitler a bigger priority?. Plan: Devote enough energy to Japan to keep them from

getting any more and begin to try to drive them back, but make Europe the first priority. This strategy criticized by public, pacific commanders, China

and far-east allies, but was sound.

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Revving the Economic Engine

US had massive economic potential, but needed time to get geared up.

Wasn’t clear that had time. England in desperate shape. America needed to time to convert

factories to all-out war production. Fear that skilled German scientists would

come up with dramatic new weapons. Had to feed and arm itself and allies.

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The Shock Of War National unity wasn’t a problem—Pearl Harbor

had silenced isolationists. US communists and socialists fully backed the war.

Why? No government witch hunts against American

Germans or most Japanese-Americans. Why? Exception: West-Coast Japanese,

110,000 interned in concentration camps. Why? Most interned were well integrated into US Lost millions in earnings and property. Upheld by Supreme Court in Korematsu v. U.S. Apologize in 1988 and pay reparations.

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Japanese Internment

Waiting for the Signal From Home

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Building The War Machine

War snapped US out of the depression.

Full employment. War Production Board. Henry J. Kaiser -Ship-building

king

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Rationing

War production board halted manufacture of non-essential items

War industries had first priority in transport and raw materials

National speed limit and gas rationing.

Food Rationing Farmers have bumper crops

and boom time.

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Many items were rationed, gas, meat, sugar, coffee, (no more silk stocking) and Victory gardens were planted.

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Do Your Part

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Economic Bumps

War caused Inflation. Why? WPB response. Unions gave no-strike pledge, but hated

wage caps and some staged labor stoppages. Mine workers under John L. Lewis were the

worst. Roosevelt took a tough stance.

1943 Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act

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Manpower and Womanpower Shortage

15 Million men served in WWII.

216,000 women served in military in one capacity or another WAACS (Army) ,

WAVES (Navy) Severe manpower

shortage at home. Braceros.

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Rosie the Riveter

6 Million women took jobs outside the home; over half had never worked before. Rosie the Riveter.

Effect on Women’s movement

2/3 left or lost their jobs after war.

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Production Miracle

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Wartime Migrations

Reason for wartime migrations. Detroit and LA, Dallas 1.6 million blacks moved from the south. New race problems in northern cities. Blacks resent their treatment. FDR issues executive order prohibiting

discrimination in defense industries Fair Employment Practices Commission.

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Internal Migration in the United States During World War II

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Blacks Demand Fairness

Blacks adopt the Double V slogan. Military segregation

NAACP membership shoots up and Congress for Racial Equality is established (CORE)

Move north continues after the war.

Creation of Sun Belt

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Holding the Home Front

Americans at home suffered very little from the war, especially when contrasted to the Brits and Russians.

War invigorated the US economy to an unprecedented level. GNP doubled from 1940 to 1945 and pay checks went way up.

Disposable income more than doubled, but not much to spend on because all factories devoted to war.

The war, even more than the New Deal, leads to the Big Government of the second half of the 20th Century.

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Federal Spending

All the federal spending finally cures the depression.

War cost $330 billion. Where did money come from?

Forced US to borrow at unprecedented level and to raise taxes.

Top brackets went as high as 90%. National debt goes from 49 Bill in 1941 to 259

Bill. in 1945.

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Figure 36.1: The National Debt, 1930–1950

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Fighting in the Pacific

THE RISING SUN IN THE PACIFIC JAPAN’S HIGH TIDE AT MIDWAY AMERICAN LEAPFROGGING TOWARD

TOKYO

Students get this stuff on their own.

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General McArthur leaves the Philippines March 1942

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Why was Doolittle and his raiders hero's?

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America Strikes Back!

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Battle of Midway: End of the Beginning

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Battle of Midway-End of the Beginning

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Island Hoping

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The Allied Halting Of Hitler

Battle of North Atlantic German subs were sinking

merchant ships faster than they could be built..

North Africa 9/42 Russia stalls the

German steamroller on the outskirts of Stalingrad High-water mark for Hitler

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The North African Second Front Soviets are begging the allies to open

second front. Allies recognize they need to. Stalin’s concerns and fears Allies concerns

Americans are willing to make a cross-channel invasion in 1942 but Churchill and England’s high command are against this.

British argue for an attack at the underbelly of Europe in the Mediterranean.

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Operation Torch Invade North Africa 11/42. Ike in command. Biggest sea-born invasion up to that time. American troops get pummeled by Germans in first battle at

Kasserine pass. Patton takes charge. U.S. and Brits begin to drive Germans East. Forced Germans to surrender in Tunisia 5/43

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North Africa: June 1942 “end of the beginning”

“Desert Fox” General Rommel stopped at the battle of El Alamein

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Casablanca

Churchill and Roosevelt Jan. 1943.

Agree to invade Sicily. The plan

Many on American staff don’t like this idea.

Churchill and Roosevelt agree to insist on unconditional surrender of Germany. Why?

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Sicily

Sicily invaded and falls 8/43.

Mussolini is deposed soon thereafter and Italy unconditionally surrenders.

Germans don’t leave and carry on fight in Italy

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Allies go on the offensiveNorth Africa opens the “second front” Dwight D. Eisenhower leads

the way Algeria 1942- Victory in May 1943 Sicily then Italy—General Patton Summer 1943 Mussolini resigns—Italy surrenders but Germans fight on– battle of Anzio

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Invasion of Italy 9/43 Allies invade toe of

Italy and start fighting up the boot.

Bogs down; amphibious invasion along the Western coast at Anzio.

Is very slow going in Italy fighting through the mountains.

Allies finally get Rome 2 days before D-Day.

Do not finish in Italy until 5 days before German surrender.

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Italy Assessed

Benefits: Does divert some German troops and provides us

with air bases from which we can easily bomb Germany.

Does open the Mediterranean to Allies greatly restricting Germans.

Problems: Delayed the cross-channel invasion by many months,

giving Soviets a chance to get further into Eastern Europe before the war ends.

Increased Soviet suspicion

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Heroes in combat

Navajo code talkers Tuskegee airmen and “Buffaloes”-tankers

442 fighting Nisei most decorated unit in U.S. history-”purple heart battalion”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEItXS35g8o#t=120

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Tehran Conference

Late Nov. 1943 Purpose First meeting of

Roosevelt and Stalin

Roosevelt attempts to placate Stalin

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Eisenhower’s D-day Invasion Of France

Eisenhower is given command of D-day landing.

June 6, 1944. Biggest sea-borne invasion in history.

Land near Normandy.

Five beaches. Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, Omaha

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“Ike” talking to 101st airborne June 5th 1944

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D-Day

Very hard fighting; Have to break out before Germans

bring in reinforcements and drive invasion back into the ocean. US has Air superiority. US has used paratroopers the night

of the D-day invasion Hitler dithers on the day of the

invasion. August, 1944, invasion of southern

France opens a second front. Patton breaks out and races to the

German border, but is forced to stall when he can’t get enough supplies.

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D-Day June 6th 1944- Omaha Beach

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June 6th 1944 The assault begins “D-Day”

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Election of 1944

Election of 1944 comes at a bad time—the war is reaching its climax

Republicans nominate Dewey, popular governor of New York. He is only 42 and is very liberal for a Republican. Platform?

FDR is renominated as a matter of course. Roosevelt is in very poor health. VP, Henry Wallace, dumped and replaced by

Truman. Why? Roosevelt relationship with Truman.

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Roosevelt Defeats Dewey

FDR stays in the White House running the war for most of the election.

Dewey position on New Deal Dewey position on war. Dewey is hurt by his VP candidate who

has been a staunch isolationist. FDR wins by 3 Million votes and 432-99 in

the Electoral College. Reasons

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The Last Days of Hitler

December 1944, Germany was wobbling. Dec. 16, 1944 Hitler unleashes a powerful

all-out counter-offense in the snow-shrouded and foggy Ardennes forest. Battle of the Bulge.

Allies are thrown back in disarray. German target is port of Antwerp. Goal?

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Bombing Germany as we advance

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Battle of the Bulge

Problem—Germans are very low on fuel and lack air support.

101st Airborne is surrounded but refuses to surrender at Bastogne. Constantly shelled, low

supplies, no winter clothing.

Patton drives north in record time and relieves Bastogne.

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V-E Day March 1945 American Troops reach the Rheine April, 1945 just outside Berlin, US forces meet up with Soviets who have

been driving in from the East. Discover the concentration camps. April 12, 1945, Roosevelt dies. Truman, who is totally out of the loop, is hastily sworn in. April 30, 1945, Hitler commits suicide as Berlin is falling around him. May 7, 1945, Germany surrenders unconditionally.

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End of the war in Europe May 8th 1945 V-E Day

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Japan Dies Hard American subs devastate Japan’s

merchant fleet. Massive fire-bomb raids of Japanese

cities. March, 1945, destroy ¼ of Tokyo and killed

over 80,000. As devastating as later Nuclear attacks.

MacArthur recaptures New Guinea.

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Island Hoping

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Leyte Gulf and Philippine

October, 1944, biggest naval battle in history. Leyte Gulf. Japan’s naval power is

destroyed. First Kamikazes.

Jan. 1945, recapture Philippine mainland.

Douglas MacArthur returns to Philippines

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Okinawa and Iwo Jima

Spring 1945 vicious battles on Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

Japanese fight to the last man, inflicting severe casualties.

Impact on US strategic thinking?

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Okinawa

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Yalta February 1945

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Atomic Awfulness

Invasion of Japan is assumed will cost America thousands of casualties.

Japan is sending out peace-feelers, but does not appear willing to surrender unconditionally.

Potsdam conference July 1945 Allies agree again to unconditional surrender.

Japan wants to keep the emperor. Manhattan project. Very secret. First atomic bomb in New Mexico July 1945. Nagasaki and Hiroshima—Japanese surrender.

Hiroshima—70,000 instant deaths and 60,000 more over next months due to radiation.

Soviets enter the war just after the first bomb and overrun Manchuria and Korea (hence North Korea)

Japan surrenders August 10, 1945

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Why Does Truman Use the Bomb?

Avoid US casualties, but clear Japan would likely surrender before Invasion.

To show Soviets what we have

To prevent Soviets from being involved in Pacific longer and grabbing more territory and having a say in rebuilding of Japan. Probably most important

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Manhattan Project

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The Home Front opportunities and adjustments

• Economic gains and population shifts

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G.I. Bill

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