World War II I. American Involvement in WWII 1.FDR recognizes Soviet Union 2.Neutrality Acts 3.Neutrality Act 1935: No U.S. weapons to any belligerent nation 4.2 nd Neutrality Act 1936: No U.S. $ to any nation at war 5.3 rd Neutrality Act: Previous laws permanent; no passengers on warring ships 1.Cash-and-carry 6. Destroyers for bases II. FDR Prepares begins to prepare 2.Isolation or Intervention? 3.Selective Service Act ages FDR elected to 3 rd term 5.4 Freedoms 1.Speech 2.Religion 3.From want 4.From fear FDR Prepares (contd) 6.Lend-Lease Act: Britain gets U.S. war materials 7.Atlantic Charter 1.Self-determination 2.Free trade Sel.Ser. males 18-65 III. Wartime Mobilization 1.260,000 women enlisted 2. Womens Army Corps 3.Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES) 4. Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squandron 5.Office of War Mobilization 6.Unemployment vanishes Wartime Mobilization(contd) 7.Price Administration 8.Economic Stabilization 1.Price floors/ceilings 2.Tax code 3.Rationing Wartime Mobilization(contd) 9. Americans saved help spending after the war 10.Nation debt $200 bill. 11. War bonds 12. OWI (Office of War Information) IV. Women and Minorities During Wartime 1.Rosie the Riveter 2.Women earned 2/3 of male salary. Women and Minorities During Wartime (contd) 3.Afr.-Am. move to industrial centers 4.Race riots 5. Mex. Am.-return under bracero Program 6.Nat. Am.- enlisted; a. Navajo Code Talkers Bracero Program V. Japanese Japanese (contd) 1.100,000 Japanese Am. relocated; citizens 2.Executive Order Fear that Japanese-American citizens might turn on the U.S. 4.Only 30% foreign born 5.Korematsu v. United States, 1944 VI. Diplomacy and Conferences Diplomacy and Conferences (contd) 1.Big Three: FDR, Churchill, Stalin 2.Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam , Casablanca 1.Invade Sicily 2.Unconditional Surrender 4.Nov. 1943Tehran 1.Seeds of D-Day sown 2.Stalin declare war against Japan Diplomacy and Conferences (contd) 5.1 st disagreements 6.Stalin wanted a buffer zone 7.Churchill wanted a free Europe 8.Feb. 1945, Yalta 1.Stalin agreed to go to war w/Japan in 90 days 2.Free Eastern Europe w/free elections 3.Skeleton of the UN 4.Germany divided into 4 zones Diplomacy and Conferences (contd) 9.April 12, 1945FDR dies 10. Potsdam Conference (Post-Nazi defeat) 11. Truman, Atlee, Stalin 12. Unconditional Surrender of Japan; war- crimes tribunals; occupation of Germany 13. Much disagreement brink of a breakup