HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 24 Outline of Last Lecture I. “Pack a Court”II. New DealIII. WWII Outline of Current Lecture II. WWIIIII. Racial ClashesIV. Military ConflictCurrent LectureWWII -unemployment ends-16 million men go to war-the women step in to fill the men’s job positions-Women’s Army Corps-Oveta Hobby; 4% of women worked before men went to war; their main job was to be a housewife; at the end of war 50% women remained working-Idiology: a conspiracy of FDR knowing about the attack on Pearl Harbor in order for Americans to have a reason to go to warRacial Clashes-the U.S. army had to be brought into Detroit to control the people from violence -Zoot Suit: a suit that was usually too big for a person; extra clothing; it was a unpatriotic way of supporting the war because there was a shortage of fabric to make uniforms for the soldiers so citizens would over dress to symbolize they were against going to war-Internment camps were set up for the American-Japanese-112,000 went to camps and two thirds were American born and one third were immigrants; 18,000 were released to go to war to support the U.S. -the Japanese earned more metals because they were put on the frontline Military Conflict-first 6 months of the war were horribleThese 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.-one third of the land was controlled by the Japanese-Europe except Britain were controlled by Hitler-U.S. made the war in Europe a priority so Great Britain doesn’t fall-Stalingrad: major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad; It was a turning point in the European theatre of World War II–the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to reinforce their losses-D-Day: June 6, 1944 — the day of the Normandy landings — initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War IINuremberg: Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, trials were a series of 13 trials carried out between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide and was never brought to
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