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20 Cards in this Set
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what happened to the new deal sentiment?
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lost during war
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maitaining isolationationism
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good neighbor policy, ludlow amendment, neutrality acts,
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steps away from isolationism
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cash and carry, lend and lease, war mobilization, selective service act, destroyers for bases
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what began the war? what comes from this?
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hitler's invasion of poland- broke nonagression pact with SU--> SU joins with the allies
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mistake that Europe made
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appeasement through giving germany sudentenland
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focus on germany:
battle of britain- operation overload, battle of the buldge, final solution |
- BB-air batle, defeated because of royal air force, radar, civilians, churchhill administraton helps inspire to defeat
- final solution- US was reluctant to help the Jews |
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1941 atlantic conference/atlantic charter
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created postwar plans
- condemned international agression - self determination - collective security |
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war mobilization
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- massive gov funded production for military pulls US out of depression
-OPA- price controls to combat inflation -propaganda- war bonds, posteres, OWI ???? - |
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1943 casablanca
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unconditonal surrender of axis
US aid to Russia - forces stalin to march to berlin |
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1943 Tehran
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US, SU, and Britain would work together and SU will help after Germany is defeated
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1945 Yalta
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divide germany into 4 military zones
set up the UN post war plans: free elections |
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Potsdam
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unconditonal surrender of Japan
occupy Germany |
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postwar veterans
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- gi bill of rights- helps increase middle class and education, housing, business $
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lift price controls
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- inflation, strikes
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continue economic growth
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bretton woods- IMF, world bank, US dollar
- opens up trade to all countries by valuing other currencies in exchange for the US dollar |
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postwar russia conflict
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- germany is split between US and russia
-self determination, but US wants to contain communism -->supports anti-communist ruler's regime even though he is a dictator so that the country wont become communist |
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japanese internment
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executive order 90666 (or something)
korematsu v. US upholds internment not until much later does the US apoligize to the surviving Japanese |
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focus on Japan
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- pearl harbor- US declared War on Japan (but after defeating germany)
- coral sea and midway- stopped Japanese advances in the Pacific -1945- Truman drops atomic bomb on Japan - careless about civilians lives - want to end war quickly and cost least American lives |
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women NA
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-worked in male jobs, Rosie the Riverter (OWI propaganda)
- helped fight and translate codes |
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mexicans and blacks
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brancero program
1943- zoot suit riot- discrimination against mexicans - NAACP membership rises -segregated armies - flocked to cities- great migration |
