Transcript Meanwhile, in the USA. . . US Isolationism Americans wanted to stay

Meanwhile, in the USA. . .
US Isolationism
• Americans
wanted to stay
out of Europe’s
wars.
• FDR wanted to
help Britain
anyway
U. S. Lend-Lease Act,
1941
Great Britain.........................$31 billion
Soviet Union..........................$11 billion
France..................................$3 billion
China..................................$1.5 billion
Other European......................$500 million
South America.......................$400 million
The amount totaled:
$48,601,365,000
Lend Lease Act
• FDR sent
war
materials
to foreign
countries.
KEY EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES…
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. America enters
WWII.
December 7, 1941
ECONOMIC GAINS
• Unemployment fell
to only 1.2% by 1944
and wages rose 35%
• Farmers too
benefited as
production doubled
and income tripled
Internment camp
EXCUTIVE ORDER 9066
Allied Powers
• The Allies were the USA, Great
Britain, and the Soviet Union (USSR).
These are called the “big three.”
Internment of Japanese Americans
• USA was afraid if
Japan were to
attack the Pacific
coast
• The Government
ordered them to
move to camps.
Strangely, Japanese Americans served
in the Army
TUSKEGEE
AIRMEN
• Among the brave men
who fought in Italy
were pilots of the
all-black 99th
squadron – the
Tuskegee Airmen
• The pilots made
numerous effective
strikes against
Germany.
Women in workforce…
Rosie the Riveter
WOMEN JOIN THE FIGHT
• Under Women’s Auxiliary
Army Corps (WAAC) program
women worked in noncombat roles such as nurses,
ambulance drivers, radio
operators, and pilots
Paying for the War
ATOMIC BOMB
DEVELOPED
• Japan had a huge army that
would defend every inch of
the Japanese mainland
• So Truman decided to use a
powerful new weapon
developed by scientists
working on the
Manhattan
Project – the
Atomic Bomb
The Manhattan Project:
Los Alamos,
NM 1942
Major General
Lesley R. Groves
Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer
I am become
death,
the shatterer
of worlds!
Little Boy
Fat
Man
Enola Gay
FDR DIES; TRUMAN PRESIDENT
• President
Roosevelt did not
live to see V-E Day
• On April 12, 1945,
he suffered a stroke
and died– his VP
Harry S Truman
became the
nation’s 33rd
president