HIST 150C3 1st Edition Lecture 15The United States and World War 2Germany-Hitler promised to do 3 things1. revitalize the country economically2. geographically expand the nation’s borders3. rid Europe of all Jews who he blamed for the spread of communism and Germany’s economic troubles-work of rebuilding the German empire required large military-started to prepare for war in mid 1930’s-credited the U.S. for indirectly helping Germany rebuild their empire-Denmark was taken over in one day-by the end of 1940 Germans had invaded FranceBlitzkrieg1. Germans employed mechanized infantry2. Armed forces3. Enemy’s lines of communication-main goal: to avoid trench warfare boycotts-Nazi’s called for boycotts of Jewish business’-marks a period of violent genocideNuremberg Laws-legally sought to define who was JewishThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-encodes restrictions on anyone of Jewish decent-did not define someone as Jewish who practiced a particular relgion-laws were based on ancestry-if anyone had Jewish grandparents (3-4) generations were deemed Jewish-paralleled one-drop rule-prohibited Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with German blood1942-Nazi’s did a systematic deportation of all Jews to concentration camps-extermination camps=more common-wave of genocide -3,000,000 killedFarm Worker Shortage-white and black farmers leave to do wartime manufacturing-agrarian/rural workers industrial workers-okies move to take agricultural jobsPearl Harbor-bombing by Japanese -leads U.S. to enter war on December 8, 1941“Preparedness”-3 goals for war preparedness1. enlarge military2. strengthen ties with Great Britain (behind the lend-lease act)3. corporations convert from producing consumer goods to weapons and other war materialsBracero Program-lasted 1941-1964-Sent Mexican farm workers to the U.S. during WW2-arrived by train-Mexican immigration increases as a result of this program-federally sponsored program-80,000 Bracero workers passed through Texas every year-Bracero Program workers register in the U.S.-majority of workers were experienced farmers from Mexico-harvested sugar beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, and grew cotton-backbreaking labor, 12-14 hour days-black/white formers move out of rural farm jobs in the south for industrial jobs in the North-helps to accelerate black migration out of the South especially in the southThe 2nd Great Migration-1940s-1960s-relocated 5 million black men/women from the rural south to the west and
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