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

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

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?

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

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