Transcript World War II - Moreau Catholic High School

World War II
Fighting the War at Home
The Home front: Rationing
Office of Price Administration fixed prices on
all commodities (not farm) and rents in
defense areas
Rationing begins December 17, 1941 with
tires and coupons for sugar, coffee, fuel.
Point rationing meat, fats, cheese, butter and
later shoes
Price control 31% WW2 62% WW1 (go to
OPA link)
Japanese American Internment
Executive Order 9066
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jai
nternment/
War Production Board
Halting of nonessential state and
national highways
Production of synthetic rubber
Petroleum and solid fuels
Conversion from peacetime to wartime
Fair Employment Practice
Committee
A. Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters and a march on
Washington
Curb discrimination in war production
and government employment
Executive Order 8802
Women and the War!
Women in the
military WAACS,
WAVES, WAFS,
SPARS
Rosie the Riveter
National War Labor Board
Settle disputes by arbitration
April 1943 FDR freezes prices, wages, &
salaries
Coal strike (May1) FDR order takeover of
mines John L. Lewis (UMW) calls strike off
May 2
Smith Anti-Connally Anti-Strike Act Pres.
Power to seize plants-strikes illegal in govt.
seized plants-30 day notice
Army seize railroads Dec 1943
World War II
Diplomacy and the War
The Big Three: FDR, Churchill, &
Stalin
Atlantic Charter 1941
Churchill and FDR renounce aggression
Anti-territorial changes
Choice of government
Cooperation with economics and social
security
Freedom from fear and want (4 freedoms)
Freedom of seas
United nations
Moscow Conference 1942
No second front
Casablanca Conference 1943
“unconditional surrender”
A second front in the “soft underbelly”
of Europe “Operation Husky” Italy
Anglo-American Conference
1943
Operation Overlord for May 1944
D-Day June 6, 1944
Moscow Conference
Hull (U.S.), Eden (GB), & Molotov
(USSR)
Poland: USSR refuse recognize govt. in
exile
U.S.S.R. and Japan
Cairo Conference
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong
Japan and unconditional surrender
Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton
Woods(1944)
Establishing the United Nations
Establishing International Monetary
Fund $8.8b (US 25%) stabilization of
currency and world trade
Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)
Kurile Islands and Southern Sakhalin Is. To
USSR
East Poland to USSR (Curzon line)
Elections in Poland
Reparations
Korea occupation zone
Japan
Outer Mongolia
Potsdam Conference
Truman, Churchill (Attlee 7/28), and
Stalin
Unconditional surrender to Japan
Occupation and control of Germany
War Crimes
Decentralizing of German economy and
denazifying, disarming, and
democratizing.
The Manhattan Project
Einstein and the idea
Death of FDR April 12, 1945
Truman and the Trinity test and
Potsdam
August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945
Impacts of World War 2
Holocaust
End of Hitler and Mussolini
Rise of U.S. and U.S.S.R.
Technology
Impacts at home
Military heroes
Lessons?
Propaganda and the War
Office of War Information
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/po
wers.html