WORLD WAR TWO

EXCERPTS FROM THE GOOD WAR:

"This neighbor told me that what we needed was a damn good war, and we'd solve our agricultural problems. And I said, 'Yes, but I'd hate to pay for it with my son. Which we did.' He weeps. 'It's too much of a price to pay.'"

"The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time."

"The war changed our whole idea of how we wanted to live when we got back. We set our sights pretty high. All of us wanted better levels of living."

"Ours was the only country among the combatants in World War Two that was neither invaded nor bombed. Ours were the only cities not blasted to rubble."

I. Intro:   The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

II. PEACE IN THE 1920s

            A. Isolation

            B. Washington Conference

            C. Kellogg-Briand Pact

            D. The Peace Movement

III. ISOLATION TO WAR

            A. Isolationist Tension:

                        1. Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (1934)

“Foreign markets must be regained if producers are to rebuild a full and enduring domestic prosperity.” (FDR)

                        2. Nye Committee

                        3. Neutrality Acts

FDR: “no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.”

                        4. Ludlow Amendment

            B. Non-Belligerence:

                        1. Stockpile Act

                        2. Educational Orders Act

                        3. Civilian War Resources Board

                        4. Lend-Lease

                        5. The Atlantic Charter

            C. War: Attack of Pearl Harbor

IV. War:

                        16 million men and women entered
                        1/8^th in combat

                        33 months=average time of service       

World War Two was a Total War: What does that mean?

How does this war end? (trick question)

"A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from the US B-29 Superfortress."

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 (100,000 dead)

Nagasaki: August 8, 1945 (35,000 dead)