Opening Question: Describe the meaning behind

this political cartoon. Give specific details.

World War II
 I. The Road to War

A. The Rise of Fascism

1. Causes
-Great Depression
- Treaty of Versailles
2. Japan (Hideki Tojo) and Italy (Benito Mussolini)
3. Hitler’s Germany
-Takes Rhineland in 1936
-Mein Kampf
 I. The Road to War

B. War Approaches
1. Isolationist
2. Neutrality Act of 1935
3. Cash and Carry
4. The Popular Front
 I. The Road to War

B. War Approaches (cont.)

5. The Failure of Appeasement
-Austria
-Munich-Conference: Sudetenland
-Rest of Czechoslovakia
-Poland: September 1, 1939
-Britain and France declare war
 I. The Road to War

B. War Approaches (cont.)

6. Isolationism and Internationalism
7. Four Freedoms Speech
8. Lend-Lease Act
Opening Question:
What does this
image of street
fighting in
Germany suggest
about the impact of
the war on cities in
Europe?
 I. The Road to War

C. The Attack on Pearl Harbor

1. Provocation
-Japan invades China
-Quarantine Speech
-Nanking (Nanjing) Massacre
2. Plans for war
-Pearl Harbor attacked on December 7, 1941
 II. Organizing for Victory

A. Financing the War

1. Business and industry
-War Powers Act
-Revenue Act
2. War Production Board (WPB)
 II. Organizing for Victory

B. Mobilizing the American Fighting Force

1. Soldiers and workers
2. Women
 II. Organizing for Victory

C. Workers and the War Effort

1. Rosie the Riveter
2. Wartime Civil Rights
3. Organized Labor
 II. Organizing for Victory

D. Politics in Wartime
1. A second Bill of Rights
2. Election of 1944
 III. Life on the Home Front
A. “For the Duration”
1. Popular culture
2. Consumer goods
 III. Life on the Home Front

B. Migration and the Wartime City

1. Racial Conflict
-Great Migration
-Zoot Suit Riots
2. Gay and Lesbian Communities
 III. Life on the Home Front
C. Japanese Removal
1. Anti-Asian sentiment
2. Executive Order 9066 and relocation
3. Korematsu v. United States
 IV. Fighting and Winning the War

A. Wartime Aims and Tensions

1. The Big Three
-US: Franklin D. Roosevelt
-GB: Winston Churchill
-Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin
2. Second Front
 IV. Fighting and Winning the War

B. The War in Europe

1. D-Day
-Led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. The Holocaust
 IV. Fighting and Winning the War

C. The War in the Pacific

1. Naval victories
-Battle of Coral Sea
-Battle of Midway
2. Racial overtones
 IV. Fighting and Winning the War

D. The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War

1. Manhattan Project
2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 IV. Fighting and Winning the War
E. The Toll of the War
1. Human Casualties
2. Economic and political transformations