Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e America in a World at War
War on Two Fronts America Unified Containing the Japanese Battle of the Coral Sea-May 1942 Midway (June 1942)-Turning Point Naval Battle Stunning Defeat for the Japanese Navy Guadalcanal (1942-43)-Solomon Islands Two-Prong Offensive Against the Japanese General Douglas MacArthur Admiral Chester Nimitz Aid from Australia and New Zealand 2
3 World War II in the Pacific
4 War on Two Fronts Holding Off the Germans Stalingrad (Aug.1942-Feb.1943) Greatest Battle of World War II Dispute over the Second Front Stalin and Molotov Pushed for an Invasion of W. Europe Operation Torch (1942-43)-Invasion of N. Africa Casablanca Conference-1943 Invasion of Sicily Defeat of Italy- (1943-44) America and the Holocaust Official Anti-Semitism Plight of the St. Louis Laborers at Buchenwald, 1945
World War II in North Africa and Italy: The Allied Counteroffensive, 1942-1943 5
The American People in Wartime Prosperity War-Induced Economic Recovery Increased Fed. Spending 7 Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (Library of Congress)
The American People in Wartime The War and the West U.S. Aircraft Industry Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, Calif. (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 8
The American People in Wartime Labor and the War Union Gains War Boosted Membership Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II (Library of Congress) 9
The American People in Wartime Stabilizing the Boom Office of Price Administration Price and Wage Controls Bank in Alexandria. Exterior of bank in Alexandria, lower floor (Library of Congress) 10
The American People in Wartime Mobilizing Production War Production Board Work to Win (NARA) 11
The American People in Wartime Wartime Science and Technology National Defense Research Committee Radar and Sonar German V-1 and V-2 Rockets Ultra Magic 12 Radar Scope, 1944 (NARA)
The American People in Wartime African Americans and the War FEPC CORE Racial Segregation Relaxed "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. Dorie Miller with his Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor, May 27, 1942. (Library of Congress) 13
The American People in Wartime Native Americans and the War Code Talkers 14
The American People in Wartime Mexican-American War Workers Employment Gains for Mexican Americans Braceros Program-1942 Zoot-Suit Riots-1943 15 Washington, D.C. Soldier inspecting a couple of "zoot suits" at the Uline Arena during Woody Herman's Orchestra engagement there (Library of Congress)
The American People in Wartime Women and Children at War Dramatic Increase in Female Employment Rosie the Riveter Limited Child Care Juvenile Crime Increases Beginning of the Baby Boom Marriage and Divorce Rates Women at War (Library of Congress) 16 Increases
The American People in Wartime Wartime Life and Culture Economic Good Times Shortages of Consumer Goods Consumerism and Monetary Resources Fighting for Future Prosperity USO-Young Women to Hostess Illicit Relationships Tolerated Healthy Heterosexuality 17 Home is where the good things are- the generosity, the good pay, the comforts, the democracy, the pie. John Hersey
The American People in Wartime The Internment of Japanese Americans Ethnic Distinctions Blurred Anti-Japanese Prejudice Relocation Centers -1942 Violation of Due Process Rights Korematsu v. U.S.(1944) The Hirano family at the Colorado River Relocation Center; Poston, AZ (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 18
War Relocation Authority Center, Manzanr, CA (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 19
The American People in Wartime Chinese Americans and the War Chinese Exclusion Acts Repealed The Retreat from Reform Dismantling the New Deal 1944 Election FDR vs. Thomas Dewey 20
The Defeat of the Axis The Liberation of France Strategic Bombing D-Day-Operation Overlord-June 6,1944 Largest Land, Air and Sea Operation in History Battle of the Bulge-Dec. 1944 Last Major German Offensive on Western Front Battle of Kursk-1943 Germany Defeated-May 8,1945 V E Day US Infantrymen show off spoils (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 21
World War II-European Theater
23 WWII in Europe, 1943-1945
D-Day Landing (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 24
The Defeat of the Axis The Pacific Offensive Battle of Leyte Gulf-1944 Largest Naval Battle in History Admiral Chester Nimitz Marshall Islands-1944 Battle of Iwo Jima-1945 Costliest Marine Battle Battle of Okinawa June 1945 25 Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima (CORBIS / Royalty-Free)
The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project Enrico Fermi Einstein s Warning Manhattan Project $ 2 Billion Spent on Project The Trinity Bomb Los Alamos, N.M. Atomic Blast, 1945 (CORBIS / Royalty-Free) 26
The Defeat of the Axis Atomic Warfare Debating the Bomb s Use Truman Issues Ultimatum Hiroshima-Aug.6,1945 Nagasaki-Aug.9,1945 U.S.S. Missouri Japan Surrenders-Sept.2,1945 28 Hiroshima, September 1945
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Age of Swing 29
Where Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb 30