WORLD WAR TWO

"The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time."

"The war changed our whole idea of how we wanted to live when we got back. We set our sights pretty high. All of us wanted better levels of living."

"Ours was the only country among the combatants in World War Two that was neither invaded not bombed. Ours were the only cities not blasted to rubble."

"This neighbor told me that what we needed was a damn good war, and we'd solve our agricultural problems. And I said, 'Yes, but I'd hate to pay for it with my son. Which we did.' He weeps. 'It's too much of a price to pay.'"

“The military took over the islands completely. If you failed to go to work, the police would be at your door and you were arrested. You had to do something, filling sandbags, anything. If you called in sick, a nurse would come to your house to check on you. If you failed to be there or were goofing off, you went to jail.”

“I personally shot one Japanese woman because she was coming across a field at night. We set up a perimeter. Anything in front, we’d shoot it. This one night I shot and when it came daylight, it was a woman there and a baby tied to her back. The bullet had gone all the way through her and out the baby’s back. That still bothers me, that hounds me. I still feel I committed murder.”

“There were some sailors down at the beach. Apparently, they got into some kind of confrontation with these zoot-suits. A sailor had been stabbed, that was the word. When the word got back to San Diego, where all the servicemen were—well, you know the navy and marines(laughs). This was in June ’43. Thousands of servicemen came up in masse. They started out in East L.A. They started grabbing anybody that had a zoot suit on. Anybody wearing that was fairgame. They just really did a number on ‘em—ripped their clothes up, beat em up. Then it spread downtown, and the police really had a problem.”

ISOLATION AND THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR TWO

I. Intro:

         Abraham Lincoln Brigade

II. PEACE IN THE 1920s

         A. Isolation

         B. Washington Conference

         C. Kellogg-Briand Pact

         D. The Peace Movement

III. ISOLATION TO WAR

         A. Isolationist Tension:

                     1. Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (1934)

“Foreign markets must be regained if producers are to rebuild a full and enduring domestic prosperity.” (FDR)

                     2. Nye Committee

                     3. Neutrality Acts

FDR: “no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.”

                     4. Ludlow Amendment

         B. Non-Belligerence:

                     1. Stockpile Act

                     2. Educational Orders Act

                     3. Civilian War Resources Board

                     4. Lend-Lease

                     5. The Atlantic Charter

         C. War: Attack of Pearl Harbor

IV. War:

                     16 million men and women entered
                     1/8^th in combat

                     33 months=average time of service          

Four Freedoms:

“Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.”

D-Day

Deception in Modern War

                                 Operation Fortitude

                                 Operation Skye

                                 British Fourth Army

                                 First U.S. Army Group

June 6, 1944 (to June 11, 1944)

--4,100 landing craft

--12,000 landing support aircraft

-- 1,000 air transports (paratroopers)

--10,000 tons of bombs dropped

--14,000 attack sorties flown.

--in all, 47 divisions (140,000 troops)

World War Two was a Total War:

What does that mean?

HOW DOES THE WAR END?

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 (100,000 dead)

                                             (Little Boy)

Nagasaki: August 8, 1945 (35,000 dead)

                                             (Fat Man)