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Interwar Foreign Policy
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Economic opportunities on the home front
As thousands of men had gone to war, it was left to the women and minority populations of the US to go to work. Women were often encouraged through propaganda, such as Rosie the Riveter in order to go to work. -
Fear of German Supremacy
One reason for the United State's entry into the war was the growing fear of German supremacy. This meant that if the US did not enter the war, then Germany would essentially have control of the entire world if the USSR and Britain were to fall -
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Mobilization
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Military
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The Draft
In preparation for maybe having to enter the war, the US enacts the Selective Training and Service Act, requiring men aged 21-45 to register for the draft. -
World War II Propaganda
Propaganda became a huge physiological aspect of the war. Posters would be used to encourage support for the war. It would often be used to call upon men to enlist for the war or to encourage women to work in factories. -
Lend-Lease
American program that lent, food, oil, and material to the allies -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on an American base in Hawaii, ultimately dragging the US into the war. -
Island Hopping
Island Hopping was an Allied method of regaining control in the Pacific. The basic idea of Island Hopping was instead of attacking and capturing islands in sequential order, the Allies would jump from one island to a less defended one, with the goal of cutting off supply chains to more heavily defended islands. -
Executive order 9066
Executive order by President Roosevelt that allowed for the evacuation of all people deemed dangerous to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers. These people were often people of Japanese decent. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the secret operation during World War II led by Robert Oppenheimer in order to create the atomic bomb that would later go on to be dropped on Japan in 1945, thus ending the war in the Pacific theater. -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy in order to liberate France of German control via the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation was ultimately successful, but came with the cost of thousands of Allied troops' lives.