HIST 121 Chapter 28
Transcript of HIST 121 Chapter 28
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
America in a World At War
Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e
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War on Two Fronts Containing
the Japanese Japan Victorious Battle of Midway
World War II in the Pacific
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War on Two Fronts Holding Off the Germans
Dwight Eisenhower Battle of Stalingrad Italy Invaded
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World War II in North Africa and Italy: The Allied Counteroffensive 1942-1943
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War on Two Fronts America and the Holocaust
The St. Louis
Rabbi Stephen Wise speaks (Library of Congress)
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War on Two Fronts America and the Holocaust
The St. Louis Moral Failure
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The American Economy in Wartime Prosperity and the Rights of Labor
Massive Government Spending
Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (Library of Congress)
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The American Economy in Wartime Prosperity and the Rights of Labor
Massive Government Spending Union Membership Posted
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Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II (Library of Congress)
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The American Economy in Wartime Stabilizing the Boom and Mobilizing Production
Office of Price Administration War Production Board
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The American Economy in Wartime Wartime Science and Technology
National Defense Research Committee Sonar
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Radar Scope, 1944
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The American Economy in Wartime Wartime Science and Technology
National Defense Research Committee Sonar Long-Range Bombing Importance of Code-Breaking
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Race and Gender in Wartime America African Americans and the War
A. Philip Randolph Wartime Race Riots
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"Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.” Dorie Miller with his Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor, May 27, 1942.(Library of Congress)
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Native Americans and the War
Navajo “Code-Talkers”
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Mexican-Americans War Workers
Braceros Program Zoot-Suit Riots
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Washington, D.C. Soldier inspecting a couple of "zoot suits" at the Uline Arena duringWoody Herman's Orchestra engagement there (Library of Congress)
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Race and Gender in Wartime America The Internment of Japanese-Americans
“Relocation Centers”
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The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-Americans going to camp at Owens Valley gather around baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station (Library of Congress)
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Chinese Americans and the War
Declining Prejudice toward Chinese Americans
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Women and Children in Wartime
“Rosie the Riveter”
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Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. (Library of Congress)
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Women and Children in Wartime
“Rosie the Riveter” WAACs and WAVEs
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Women at War
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Race and Gender in Wartime America Women and Children in Wartime
“Rosie the Riveter” WAACs and WAVEs Start of the “Baby Boom”
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Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture Consumerism Reborn
“Home is where the good things are- the generosity, the good pay, the comforts, the democracy, the pie.”
John Hersey
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Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture Wartime Entertainment and Leisure
Popularity of Swing
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Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture Women and Men in the Armed Services
Importance of USOs
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Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture Retreat from Reform
Conservative Assault on the New Deal
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Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture Retreat from Reform
Conservative Assault on the New Deal Roosevelt Reelected
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Statue of Thomas E. Dewey (Library of Congress)
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The Defeat of the Axis The Liberation
of France Invasion of France Battle of the Bulge Germany Invaded
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The Defeat of the Axis The Pacific Offensive
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Sailor. Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
(Library of Congress)
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The Defeat of the Axis The Pacific Offensive
Battle of Leyte Gulf Tokyo Firebombed
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The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
Atomic Fission J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and hiscolleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943 (Library of Congress)
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The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
Atomic Fission J. Robert Oppenheimer Persistent Controversy
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
Atomic Fission J. Robert Oppenheimer Persistent Controversy Hiroshima Destroyed
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Hiroshima, September 1945
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The Defeat of the Axis The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
Atomic Fission J. Robert Oppenheimer Persistent Controversy Hiroshima Destroyed Nagasaki Surrender of Japan
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Debating the Past:
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
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