AMH2020 July 16th Chapter 35 U S in WWII 1941 1945 1941 Four Freedom Speech o January 6 1941 o FDR Annual Address to Congress Annual Address Freedom of Speech and Expression Freedom of Religious Expression Freedom from Want Freedom from Fear Pearl Harbor Attacked Declaration of War Dec 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission FEPC o Equal labor for blacks and all other ethnicities and religions rules for fairness in the country and to deal with any other labor issues that would come up 1942 Executive Order No 9066 o 11 000 Japanese put into concentration camps Arkansas o Became illegal to be Japanese decent and to be in most Arizona California towns o Upheld in the Supreme Court in 1944 Japanese took Philippines o Bataan Death March o Met resistance o Japanese were successful in taking over the Philippines o Completely victorious until the Battle of Coral Sea Battle of Coral Sea May 1942 o Where Japanese became losers o Battle of just aircraft carriers o Heavy loses in both sides but Americans were catching up to Japanese attacks making it a more equal battle Battle of Midway o Admiral Chest Nimitz o Halted Japanese victory spree o Turning point of the war in the Pacific o American fleet only aircraft carriers were able to stop Japanese victory spree o Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers Submarine Warfare in the Atlantic o 500 merchant ships lost o Empire Mica o Valiant Mission U boats saved their torpedoed loaded homeward bound As the H M S Empire Mica ignited into flames just 21 miles due south San Blas FL and young men scrambled to save themselves and fellow crewmembers U 67 nicknamed the Raider slithered away at night to find other trophies The Countess Because the Coast Guard vessel was in for repairs the local Chevrolet dealer volunteered his personal boat the Countess for the rescue mission Apalachicola Armory Congress of Racial Equality Established o CORE o Double V victory over fascism abroad racism Manhattan Project established to develop the atomic bomb o Albert Einstein instigated o Directed by Robert Oppenheimer o 2 billion blank check War Production Board o Directed all war production o Procured allocated raw materials Office of Price Administration o Eventually brought prices under control National War Labor Board Imposed ceiling on wage increases Rationing limited consumption of critical goods Casablanca Conference o FDR and Churchill agree on unconditional surrender for Japan Smith Connally Anti Strike Act o Allowed federal government to seize and control all companies threatened by labor disputes o Criminalized strike action against government rule Allied Victory at Guadalcanal Tehran Conference o FDR Churchill Stalin The Big Three 1943 1944 D Day o June 6 1944 o Commanded by Dwight D Eisenhower o 156 000 troops o 4 600 vessels at Normandy Beachhead o Pivotal battle leading to liberation of France o Brought on final phases on WWII FDR Re elected o Fourth term o Truman selected as vice president Battle of the Bulge o Last major Axis counter offensive o Cost valuable German reserves equipment o Hastened war end 1945 Yalta Conference o FDR Churchill Stalin o February 4 1945 o Divided Poland o Soviet support Japanese victory o Promotion of World Organization FDR Died April 12 1944 Harry Truman became president Germany surrendered May 7 1945 July 6 1945 first successful atomic detonation desert near Alamogordo New Mexico Potsdam Conference o Truman Stalin British PM Clemet Attlee Churchill o Sought unconditional Japanese surrender by August or will use atomic bomb August 6 1945 o Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima o 180 000 casualties August 9 1945 o Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki August 10 1945 o Tokyo sued for peace
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