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World War II• American entry into
WWII: US support of the allies and Pearl Harbor
• Debate over the 2nd Front: Tension between US, Britain, and USSR
• Radar; D-Day and V-E Day
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Home Front
• Mr. New Deal was replaced by Dr. Win-the-War
• Women: Rosie the Riveter• African Americans:
Segregated units but fought for Double-V
• Mexican Americans crucial to economy in the West
• Native American coders
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Japanese American Internment
• Contrast between Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans: Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Law but Internment of Japanese Americans
• Was it wrong to intern Japanese Americans? Why and why not?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Manhattan Project to make the bomb before Hitler
• Four alternatives to end the war against Japan: Invasion; Soviet entry; Keep Emperor; Atomic Bombs
• Enola Gay debate
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Impact of WWII
• The beginning of the “American Century”
• Bitter US-Soviet tension foreshadowed the Cold War
• Expansion of federal government in all walks of American life, including science and technology
• Rise of the American West: war industries