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single largest event in world history
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Wilson belief on wht should be done with Germany |
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"Germany for the germans"
-helped draw map of territorial changes after wwI
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-austria excited bc in depression
-said that it was part of germany
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correct wilsons mistake
-it was part of germany also
-include rhineland |
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-sept 1938
-met w chamberlin adn french italian prime ministers.
-give germany sudetenland or he'll take it by force
give him what he wants in hope that he'll stop there
give him an incha dn he'll take a mile (takes czechoslovakia 6 months later)
basically feeding your friends to the gator in hopes that he'll eat you last
FDR response: Good Man, prevented war |
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soviet union dictator
-saw germany pushing east towards SU
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non aggression bn nazis and soviets |
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attacking manchuria
-rape of nanking
-WWII begins at diff times in diff places |
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thank God for the atlantic and pacific |
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fly across atlantic
-face of US isolationism |
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him in wheelchair. wasnt very public abt it
"i hate war" |
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cant trade atc with belligerents
keep America out of fire zone
(prevent what happened in WW1 |
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sad army- still on horseback while germany is in tanks |
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basically big wall in France to keep out germans
-they go around: though Belgium |
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able to bring up army quickly |
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"arsenal of democracy"-build weapons
meeting isolationists halfway
-Am money pay for Britian to fight, so Am not sucked into war |
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FDR and churchill meet to discuss plans for war and post war
-recycle Wilsonianism
-disarmament: churchill not planning to uphold bc would be death of british empire
-binds Am and Britain
!!!US IS NOT IN THE WAR YET!!! |
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join Germany (white supremists) nazis
-embargo on scrap metal adn oil
-japan and US at impass |
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 |
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Yakamodo lead attack- said US will fight back
-US not think possible bc it was a surprise attack and no ultimatum
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nazi officials discuss "final solution" for Jews: Hoocaust
-turn concentration camps into death camps |
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AM stop Japan offensive powers at midway islands
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churchhill
stalin
roosevelt
-resolve hitler and Japan CRUSHED |
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stalin doesnt trust them
tried to put his commie officials in charge.
Rosy: "way to rule that country you don't own. Fool. I didn't vote for that shit" |
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make postwar peaceful and acceptable to all three
-want Germany weak and divided
-might keep Euro poor |
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WE CAN DO IT!
-am producing planes
-30% women in workforce |
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low interest loans etc and free college |
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Warsaw Poles rise up against the Nazis and try to help the Soviet Union.
SU is like HELLL NO. You're not going to claim part of the victory, we want you all to ourselves.
They parked tanks and did not help. |
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H Bombs
nagasaki
hiroshima |
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"i know it when i see it"
dont really know when it begins |
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diplomat in moscow
-why soviets turning inward and cutting off contact with West
-"long telegram" -explained containment
-containment is unsustainable: cant last forever, US man the frontiers and wait against ideology |
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help those fighting against communism (Greece and Turkey) |
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purchases reconstrction af Euro economy
-loan Am money to Euro countries |
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Soviets: "lets blockade this HOE"
US: "BULLLLSHIT. I'ma give them food and supplies"
YAY WE WIN. |
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1st Am overseas alliance in long time
-"to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germansdown"
- supported by Am citizens
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list of commies in govt
"guilt by association"
never caught a real commy
but there were actual traitors :Truman knew |
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1946-64
ppl optimistic abt future= BABIES |
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powers to impregnate
FEAR IT
-drive identity of baby boomers |
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Russian satelite
-threaten Am supremacy |
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discriminated against blacks |
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organize beginings of a March on Washington
idea: US not yet in war- blacks want to help but cant
peaceful riot: "let us do our part"
"why hold weapons of freedom in a country that gives us none?" |
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ensuring blacks ot get jobs
"victory on 2 fronts"
-fepc and war |
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publishes study "AN Am dillema"
-gap b/n Am ideals and Reality
Am race relations
how to reconcile horrible pains of relations with promise of Am life |
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Brooklyn Dodgers
-1st black player in big leagues
-integrate sports W&B |
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"to secure these rights"
-anti lynch
-vote
-safety and security
-conscious and expression |
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idea to attack segregation:
"if you want seperate, pay for equal"
-black schools funded less
-attack top of pyrimid: graduate students |
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black want to go lawschool in MO
-build "lawschool" for him to go to
not equal |
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UT lawschool
-go to school in basement
not equal |
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dental education
given seperate desk
not equal |
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Brown v Board of Education
-Jim Crow needs to die
-seperate can never be equal
-massive resistance of whites |
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black kids in segregated schools think white better prettier and smarter |
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white reaction to desegregation |
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massive resistence of white south
"you and what army?"
rise of KKK |
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desegregate with all deliberate speed |
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churchill, truman, stalin
-figure out post war order, peacetime treaties, countering the aftermath of war |
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churchill, truman stalin
discuss Europes postwar reconstruction |
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Black Tuesday-Black Thursday |
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great stock market crash of 29
-vote of confidence on the Mon.
-tuesday 10 bil $ of paper value vanish
-does not mean factories/farms no longer function
-idea that markets never going back to good times |
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ppl build shanty house bc their real homes forclosed |
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"We can work our way out of this" |
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Hoover's Golden Goose/key |
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Can't risk giving non working people money, because then they will go off and be lazy asses and never work again... thus ruining the American Dream and culture forever. |
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Biggest difference in congressional election between the demos and the repubs |
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BOOZE. poor people always buy booze... also they wanted to tax it for revenue. |
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RFC (Reconstruction finance corporation) |
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agency established during the great depression, granted SAL governments aprrox 2mill to help/build roads/RR/banks/mortage |
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NRA (National Recovery Agency) |
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set minimum wages and maximum weekly hours, as well as minimum prices at which products could be sold. |
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No, you can not grow more wheat...it affects the interstate commerce wheat prices. |
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Bad, Bad Farmer, you.... selling your SICK CHICKENS! |
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PS... Roosevelt tried to get 6 more Supreme Court Justices... |
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June 1942
AMERICANS DESTROYED THE JAPANESE offense.
PS...turning point in war |
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Guess what Japanese-Americans |
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stopped selling steel, oil and cotton to Japan because they made a pact with Germany...and that pissed us off. |
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New Years Day, 1942
RAAWWRRRRR |
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percentages of American resources going to war |
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15% Americans use to fight against the ASIANS
85% to Europe, for the brits to fight off the dirty, dirty NAZIS |
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Nazis v Soviet Union
this was a turning point in the war, made Nazi victory in the East impossible |
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Resulted in the development of the first atomic BOMB |
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1st meeting of the BIG 3 during the war...
central aim was to plan the final strategy for attacking the Nazis, by opening a second front |
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addressed the allied position against Japan
attended by Rosey, Churchy, and some chinese dude. Stalin was being a little bitch and was like "HELL NO i'm not going, china man is gonn' be there." |
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Long Telegram
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshal Plan
Berlin Airlift |
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Hitler was now fighting a 2 front war. HE GOIN' DOWN. |
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breakdown of the homefront workforce |
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30% women
15% teen
40% Af Americans |
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Hiroshima 8/6/45
Nagasaki 8/9/45 |
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Why did the Allies win the war? |
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American industrialization was the bomb, but like literally.
Also our culture was quite industrial and hard working and we have resources, which help. |
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plane that dropped the 1st A-BOMB |
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bought by ordinary US citizens and helped fund the war |
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Sad day
Soviets now have their very own Atomic Bomb
no more monopoly for US |
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1st major scene of civil rights movement
"Little Rock 9" turned away by US soldiers when tried to enter school |
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4 College Guys in a woolworths
1960 |
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"WE WANT A BURGER"
sit-in |
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~218 Billion: 1946
~1 TRILLION: 1970 |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
MLK was a part of it
predominately membered by preachers and such |
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee
predominately made up of students.
organized sit-ins and freedom rides |
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Congress On Racial Equality
challenged Jim Crow on Public transportations |
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took place on greyhound interstate bus system...
first one was in 1961 |
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a molatov cocktail was thrown at a black church, it burned down and killed 4 girls |
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like a BAJILLION people went to washington and heard about the dream that MLK had the night before |
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