HIST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Lend-Lease, James Agee
Depression in the US
1939 Gone with the Wind film Grapes of Wrath novel
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1940 unemployment 14% or more, 11th tear of Great Depression, 2 FDR
administration and Hoover administration, 45% white households below the
poverty line, 90% of all African American households below the poverty line
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1941 James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Aggression- Japan, Italy, Germany
Manchurian Invasion, 1931
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Ethiopian Invasion, 1935
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Japanese Invasion of China, 1937, Shanghai bombing
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Rhineland occupation, 1936
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Sudetendland and Munich Conf., 1938- Czechoslovakia invasion, March 1939
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War Begins
Nazi Soviet Pact, August 1939
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German invasion of Poland, September 1939
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Soviet occupation of Poland, October 1939
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Blitzkrieg- April 1940
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Battle of Britain- Summer 1940
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United States Response
"Preparedness"- "two ocean navy"
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September 1940- "destroyers for bases"
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December 1940- 4 Freedoms fire side chat
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March 1941- Lend Lease Act
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August 1941- Atlantic Charter
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Fall 1941- "active defense" haunting U-boats
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Realistically, the US is in this war a good year and a half before Pearl Harbor
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Jobs
Industrial production doubled
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President given oppurtunity to modify government system and industries to
benefit the war
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Auto makers began making tanks and airplanes
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Other manufacturers started making shoes and boots or ammunition and were
running 24/7 in order to fulfil the contracts and requirements set in place by the
US government
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17,000 new jobs
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Suit companies were instructed to stop making "vests" with their suits so they
could save the wool fabric for the war when it was needed
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Less clothing was necessary (like 2 piece bathing suit) in order to save fabric and
materials for the war
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Research
Research attempts first went through the Federal Government (NSA) then
through the universities, so they were to be approved by individuals in the
Federal Government before moving forward
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For that reason, many of these research experiences were related to ways the
government could prosper or grow as opposed to the students
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Women
Rosie the Riveter and the new push for the woman to take charge and "we can
do it!"
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Starting to take jobs in industry and began to prove themselves
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Newly created war services of the military
Joined the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Core
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Served as women air service pilots (WASPs) who transported supplies into
and out of combat areas and bases
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Over 100,000 women served in these units
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More than a dozen were awarded the purple heart
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Flew supplies, worked in forward positions, and worked in intelligence
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Japanese American Relocation Camps
After Pearl Harbor, many Americans feared attacks from Japan and Japanese
Americans
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College students removed from school during final exams in spring semesters
and relocated to these concentration camps
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Japanese Americans
In many ways this is when Civil Rights began
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Europe
Russians demanded and Stalin asked to pull German troops away from Moscow
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Roosevelt
Wanted to limit the amount of American deaths
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If others could do the fighting for them, so be it (at every turn, his policies took
shape of limiting the loss of American lives; Wanted to avoid something like
WWI when millions of American lives were lost)
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Yalta, February 1945
Main focus on postwar world
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Stalin agrees to enter war against Japan after Germany is defeated
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Stalin seeks $20 billion in war reparations from Germany- wants crippled
Germany
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Germany split into 4 "zones of occupation"
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U.S. sought free and open elections in Poland and in Eastern Europe
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World War II
Monday, February 26, 2018
1:32 PM
Document Summary
1939 gone with the wind film grapes of wrath novel. 1940 unemployment 14% or more, 11th tear of great depression, 2 fdr administration and hoover administration, 45% white households below the poverty line, 90% of all african american households below the poverty line. 1941 james agee, let us now praise famous men. Sudetendland and munich conf. , 1938- czechoslovakia invasion, march 1939. Realistically, the us is in this war a good year and a half before pearl harbor. President given oppurtunity to modify government system and industries to benefit the war. Other manufacturers started making shoes and boots or ammunition and were running 24/7 in order to fulfil the contracts and requirements set in place by the. Suit companies were instructed to stop making vests with their suits so they could save the wool fabric for the war when it was needed. Less clothing was necessary (like 2 piece bathing suit) in order to save fabric and materials for the war.
