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1 Alan Brinkley, American History 15/e
Chapter 26: America in a World at War Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

2 Highlights War on Two Fronts The American People in Wartime
The Defeat of the Axis Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

3 War on Two Fronts Containing the Japanese America United Midway
Guadalcanal Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

4 WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC
War on Two Fronts WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

5 War on Two Fronts Holding Off the Germans America and the Holocaust
Stalingrad Dispute over the Second Front America and the Holocaust Official Anti-Semitism Laborers at Buchenwald, (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

6 War on Two Fronts WORLD WAR II IN NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY: THE ALLIED COUNTEROFFENSIVE, 1942–1943 Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

7 The American People in Wartime
Prosperity War-Induced Economic Recovery The War and the West Labor and the War Union Gains Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

8 The American People in Wartime
Stabilizing the Boom Office of Price Administration Mobilizing Production War Production Board Work to Win (NARA) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

9 The American People in Wartime
Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, CA (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

10 The American People in Wartime
Wartime and Science and Technology National Defense Research Committee Radar and Sonar Ultra Magic Radar scope, 1944 (NARA) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

11 The American People in Wartime
African Americans and the War Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Native Americans and the War “Code-Talkers” "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.” Dorie Miller with his Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor, May 27, 1942. (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

12 The American People in Wartime
Mexican American War Workers Employment Gains for Mexican Americans Zoot-Suit Riots Soldier inspecting a couple of "zoot suits" at the Uline Arena during Woody Herman's Orchestra engagement there, Washington, D.C. (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

13 The American People in Wartime
Women and Children at War Dramatic Increase in Female Employment “Rosie the Riveter” Limited Child Care Beginning of the “Baby Boom” Women at war (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

14 The American People in Wartime
Wartime Life and Culture Economic Good Times Fighting for Future Prosperity USO Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

15 The American People in Wartime
The Internment of Japanese Americans Ethnic Distinctions Blurred Anti-Japanese Prejudice “Relocation Centers” Korematsu v. U.S. The Hirano family at the Colorado River Relocation Center; Poston, AZ (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

16 The American People in Wartime
War Relocation Authority Center, Manzanar, CA (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

17 The American People in Wartime
Chinese Americans and the War Chinese Exclusion Acts Repealed The Retreat from Reform Dismantling the New Deal 1944 Election Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

18 The Defeat of the Axis The Liberation of France Strategic Bombing
D-Day Battle of the Bulge Germany Defeated U.S. infantrymen show off spoils (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

19 WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: THE ALLIED COUNTEROFFENSIVE, 1943–1945
The Defeat of the Axis WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: THE ALLIED COUNTEROFFENSIVE, 1943–1945 Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

20 The Defeat of the Axis D-Day landing (CORBIS/Royalty-Free)
Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

21 The Defeat of the Axis The Pacific Offensive Battle of Leyte Gulf
Okinawa Raising the flag at Iwo Jima (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

22 The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project Enrico Fermi
The Trinity Bomb Atomic blast, 1945 (CORBIS/Royalty-Free) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

23 The Defeat of the Axis Atomic Warfare Debating the Bomb’s Use
Hiroshima Nagasaki Hiroshima, September 1945 (NARA) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.


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