APUSH | REVIEW

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APUSH REVIEW

• Chapter 37 38
• 1930s and early 40s

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Political

• London Conference 66 nations to end depression
• Tyler-McDuffie Act Filipino independence
• 7th Pan-American Conference armed intervention
• Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini Dictators in Germany,
  Russia, and Italy
• Appeasement German Occupation of Austria, Saar
  Valley, Sudentenland
• USSR Germany Non-Aggression Pact
• UK and France _at_ war w/ Germany
• 1st US peacetime draft
• FDR re-elected for 3rd term
• Committee to Defend American by Helping Allies
  (UK supporters) VS. America First Committee
  (Isolationists Charles A. Lindbergh
• Atlantic Conference 1941 Atlantic Charter
  near Wilsons 14 points

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Economic

• Great Depression
• 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act low
  tariff rates
• 1934 Johnson Debt Default Act No more loans
  to nations who already owe the US money
• Embargo on loyalist Spanish Govt in Spanish
  Civil War
• Cash and Carry European nations supply the
  ships, pay US in cash, and US give supplies
• Destroyer Deal US gave 50 year old ships to
  England for bases in S. America and New Foundland
• Lend-Lease Act US lent supplies to Britain to
  be returned when no longer needed US lent over
  50 billion

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Social

• Depression ended with War
• US draft
• Pearl harbor December 7th, 1941 3,000 killed
• US at war with Japan and Germany
• VFW Veterans of Foreign Wars 1930s
• Hundreds of thousands of people line up to
  volunteer for military service with outbreak out
  war

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Chapter 38

• World War II

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Political

• Tehran Conference Agreement for USSR and Allies
  to attack at same time
• Election of 1944 FDR runs for 4th term, defeats
  Thomas E. Dewey
• Political Action Committee Used union funds for
  political reasons
• Public and govt shifted from Isolationist to
  Avengist
• Korematsu VS US constitutionality of internment
• Fair Employment Practices Commission
  discouraged racism and oppression
• Potsdam Conference Surrender or be Destroyed
  Japan

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Economic

• End of New Deal with outbreak of war
• War had erased all signs of depression
• War industry mobilized the peacetime economy for
  war
• New technology being developed for war Jet
  engines, gasses, new weapons and ships, atomic
  bomb, and new drugs - penicillin
• US homeland was untouched by war industry mass
  producing goods
• War Production Board halted production of
  non-necessary goods

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Social The War

• Women's labor Rosie the Riveter
• Japanese Internment in the West thought to be
  spies
• Migration to the cities for work and jobs
• Over 15 million enlisted in the armed forces
• Women's service WAACS (Army), WAVES (Navy),
  SPARS (Coast Guard)
• Navajo Code Talkers radio operators in Pacific
• Philippines over run, Burma, Guam, Wake, Hong
  Kong, and Malaya Bataan Death March
• Island Hopping Gen. Douglas McArthur and Adm.
  Chester W. Nimitz
• German Enigma Code Machine
• June 4th, 1944 Liberation of Rome
• June 6th, 1944 D-DAY, Allied invasion of
  Normandy, France, Paris soon liberated
• December 16th, 1944 German attack and Battle
  of the Bulge
• FDR died April 12th, 1945 from cerebral
  hemorrhage
• Hitler commits suicide April 30th, 1945
• VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 7th, 1945
• US Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August
  6th and 9th kills 260,000
• Japan surrenders with Hirohito remaining on
  throne, VJ Day (Victory in Japan) September 2nd,
  1945
• US took over 1 million casualties of dead and
  wounded