How did the Cold War shape the American economy, society and politics from 1945 to 1992?
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lecture_text_chapter23-2.pptAmerica’s Rise to World Leadership, 1929-1945
Chapter 23
Road to War
- Diplomacy in a Dangerous World
- Roosevelt followed Hoover’s Good Neighbor Policy
- Cuba and Mexico soon tested the policy
- Roosevelt and Isolationism
- Nye Committee
- Neutrality Acts
- 1935
- 1937
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- War and American Neutrality
- Third Neutrality Act (1939)
- Burke-Wadsworth Act
- The Battle for the Atlantic
- Lend-Lease Bill
- Atlantic Charter
Road to War
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- Pearl Harbor
- FDR tried to balance US needs with Britain
- Americans prepared for war
- Japan moved first
- December 7, 1941
- US declared war on December 8
Road to War
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America Responds to War
- Japanese-American Internment
- Product of long-standing racist attitude
- Executive Order 9066
- Nisei and Issei
- Internment Camps
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- Mobilizing the Nation for War
- Arsenal of Democracy
- Office of Price Administration
- Office of War Mobilization
- The war brought an end to the Depression
America Responds to War
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- A People at Work and War
- Most were moving and taking jobs
- Women and minorities
- War industrial cities
- New Opportunities and Old Constraints
- Military pushed to create new roles for women
- Rosie the Riveter
America Responds to War
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- Wartime Politics
- GI Bill of Rights
- FDR won re-election in 1940
America Responds to War
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Waging World War
- Halting the Japanese Advance
- Midway
- Roads to Berlin
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Allies begin to meet with some success
- Tehran Conference
- Operation Overlord
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- Stresses in the Grand Alliance
- Yalta
Waging World War
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- The Holocaust
- “The Final Solution”
- Concentration camps
- War Refuge Board
- Not until 1944
Waging World War
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- Closing the Circle on Japan
- More and more American lives were being lost
Waging World War
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- Entering a Nuclear Age
- The Manhattan Project
- Potsdam Declaration
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ended WWII
- But most of the world lay in ruins
Waging World War
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