Life on the Homefront: America's Involvement in World War 2

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

  • FDR signs the Neutrality Acts

  • Cash and Carry Plan

  • Selective Service and training Act

  • America First Committee Let Their Voices be Heard

  • The Tripartite Act

  • Roosevelt's Arsenal of Democracy Speech

  • Lend-Lease Act Passed By Congress

  • Roosevelt's four Freedoms Speech

  • FEPC established and banned discrimination

  • Atlantic Charter issued by Roosevelt and Churchill

  • Office of Price Administration Established

  • Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

  • United States Enters World War 2

  • War Production Board created to oversee conversion to military production

  • Congress of Racial Equality Founded

  • Battle of Bataan

  • Creation of Japanese Internment Camps

  • The Bombing of Tokyo

  • Bracero Program Established

  • Zoot Suit Roots(race riots)

  • War Labor Disputes Act

  • Korematsu vs. United States Court Case

  • G.I. Bill of Rights

  • "An American Dilemma" Published

  • "What the Negro Wants" Published

  • The Bretton Woods Conference

  • Randolph's March on Washington

  • Yalta Conference

  • Potsdam Declaration

  • VJ Day(Victory Over Japan)

  • The Manhattan Project

  • United Nations Day Established