1. World War II
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, freedom from want

2. Good Neighbors and Isolationism before World War II
Good Neighbor Policy
US needs Latin American support against European fascist dictators
Pan-American Conferences
End intervention in Latin America
Nullify Platt Amendment
However, US still supported undemocratic governments friendly to American business
Anastasio Somoza (Nicaragua)

3. Totalitarian governments in Italy, Germany, and Spain
Holocaust
While concerned, FDR’s main focus is dealing with Great Depression
Nye Committee (1934)
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937
1935-Prohibit arms shipments and travel to belligerent nations
1936-Forbade extension of loans and credits to belligerent nations
1937-forbade shipment of arms to both sides in the Spanish Civil War

4. Fascist Aggression Ethopia-1935 Rhineland-1936 China-1937
Anschluss with Austria-1938
Sudetenland-1938
Munich Conference-1938
Appeasement
Chamberlain- “Peace in our time.”
September 1, 1939-Hitler invades Poland and WWII has started
Blitzkrieg
“Phony War”

5. Arsenal for Democracy Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Change in “Cash and Carry” policy (1939)
Permitted Britain to obtain U.S. arms on credit
FDR’s “Garden Hose” analogy
Atlantic Charter (August 1941)-
Secret meeting with Churchill in Newfoundland
Churchill and FDR promised “final destruction of Nazi tyranny”

6. Pearl Harbor Embargo of Japan in 1937
Six months before Pearl Harbor, FDR freezes Japanese assets including the sale of oil
A month before, intercepted Japanese intelligence revealed an attack in the Pacific was near
Did FDR intentionally allow the attack to happen?

7. Sunday December 7, 1941- “A day that will live in infamy”
2,000 servicemen killed, 187 aircraft 18 naval vessels, 8 battleships
Next day by a vote of 477-1, FDR receives a declaration of war

8. The War at Home Dramatic improvement in economy
Economy-war production mode
Rosie the Riveter- By 1944, women made up 1/3 of civilian work force and 350,000 served in non combat military roles
Working role was only temporary

9. Japanese Internment Executive Order 9066 (February 1942)
Most Japanese interned where nisei or American born Japanese
110,000 men, women, and children
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Internment was constitutional
Greater good of the country outweighed individual rights
20,000 Japanese Americans served in the armed forces during WWII

10. African-Americans and Military Service
1 million blacks served in armed forces
Segregated units
Construction, transport, and other non combat tasks
Tuskegee Airman
Double V
President Truman in 1948 orders the armed forces to be desegregated

11. War in the Pacific “Island Hopping”
Doolittle Raids-Battle of Tokyo-June 1942
Battle of Midway-June 1942
Battle of Iwo Jima
February19-March 26, 1945
25,000 American casualties

12. D-Day

13. Goal was to liberate France Largest invasion by sea
June 6, 1944
Goal was to liberate France
Largest invasion by sea
What if D-Day didn’t work?
Eisenhower’s Letter
“The fault is mine and mine alone.”

14. Battle of the Bulge December 1944-January 1945
Last major German offensive
April 30-Hitler commits suicide
May 8-VE Day-Germany surrenders

15. End of the War Dropping of the Atomic Bombs- August 6th and August 9th
Manhattan Project (1939)
Einstein’s famous letter to FDR about Germany
Meetings between the “Big 3” took place at Yalta and Potsdam
Yalta (February 1945)
Germany would be occupied (zones)
Soviet would enter war against Japan
A new world peace organization established at a conference in San Francisco (United Nations)
Potsdam (July 1945)
Warning to Japan to unconditionally surrender
Nazi war crimes trials (Nuremberg Trials)

16. Yalta
Soviet control of Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) and a large section of Poland
Non communists in pro-Soviet government of Poland
“Free elections”
Intent on establishing communism in Eastern Europe

18. Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945