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2 1. What was required by the Neutrality Acts?
Did they succeed in keeping the US neutral 2. Why did Roosevelt ask Congress to pass the Lend Lease Act? 3. What was the relationship between Japan and the US before the attack on Pearl Harbor? 4. How much did President Roosevelt consider American public opinion when deciding how to respond to the conflict in Europe? 5. Why did he need to consider public opinion at all?

3 DECEMBER 8, 1941

4 JEANNETTE RANKIN

5 SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT - 1940

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7 G I ’ s

8 War production War Related Production 1939 = 2% 1944 = 44% M-1 Carbine
1945 – 6 mil. 161,000/mo. Liberty Ships 200 days 40days

9 War production By mid-1945 the U.S. had produced 300,000 airplanes
80,000 landing craft 100,000 tanks 5,600 merchant vessels 6,000,000 rifles 41,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition

10 Workforce

11 African American Migration
≈ 700,000 left the south North & West Washington Pop. ↑ 35.3% b/w

12 finance

13 MEATS & CANNED FISH CHEESE & CANNED MILK FATS TYPEWRITERS NYLONS TIRES CARS BICYCLES GAS FUEL OILS & KEROSINE STOVES RUBBER SHOES SUGAR COFFEE PROCESSED FOODS

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16 VICTORY GARDENS

17 TOTAL WAR recycling Cans Tires Pots & Pans Razor Blades Old Shovels
Old Lip-Stick tubes TOTAL WAR

18 ASSIGNMENT (SORRY) C18s1 DO: 1-4 ALL KEY TERMS (PICT. DICT.)

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