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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION by
Eric Foner
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• Fighting World War II
• The Home Front
• Visions of Postwar Freedom
• The American Dilemma
• The End of the War
The immensely popular Office of War Information poster reproducing Norman Rockwell’s painting of
The Four Freedoms
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Fighting World War II
Focus Question:
What steps led to American participation in World War II?
Fighting World War II:
Pre-War actions
• Good Neighbors
• The Road to War
A draft of FDR’s Four Freedoms speech of 1941
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One of the patriotic war posters issued by the Office of
War Information
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This Hand Guides the Reich
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Fighting World War II:
War before u.s.
involvement
• Isolationism
• War in Europe
In a 1940 cartoon, war clouds engulf Europe.
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A newsreel theater in New York’s Times Square announces Hitler’s blitzkrieg.
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Fighting World War II:
U.s. Entrance in War
• Toward Intervention
• Pearl Harbor
Walt Disney’s program cover for the October 1941
“Fight for Freedom” rally in Madison Square Garden
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Fighting World War II: battles
• The War in the Pacific
• The War in Europe
Map 22.1 World War II in the Pacific, 1941–1945
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Map 22.2 World War II in Europe, 1942–1945
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Some of the 13,000 American troops forced to surrender to the Japanese on Corregidor Island,
Philippines, May 1942
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Members of the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard taking part in an amphibious assault
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Ben Hurwitz, a soldier from New York City who fought in North Africa and Italy during WWII
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German Prisoners of War, June 1944
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Prisoners at a German concentration camp liberated by Allied troops in 1945
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The Home Front
Focus Question:
How did the United States mobilize economic resources and promote popular support for the war effort?
The Home Front:
Government and
Economics
• Mobilizing for War
A list of jobs available in Detroit in July 1941
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The Home Front:
Business and Labor
• Business and the War
• Labor in Wartime
Map 22.3 Wartime Army and Navy Bases and Airfields
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Table 22.1 Labor Union Membership
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M-5 tanks on the assembly line at a Detroit Cadillac plant
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The Home Front: Four
Freedoms
• Fighting for the Four Freedoms
• Freedom from Want
In this recruitment poster for the Boy Scouts, a svelte
Miss Liberty prominently displays the Bill of Rights.
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Patriotic Fan
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The Home Front: public opinion
• The Office of War Information
• The Fifth Freedom
This patriotic war poster issued by the Office of War Information links the words of Abraham Lincoln to the struggle against Nazi tyranny.
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“Rise of Asia”
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Advertisement by the Liberty Motors and Engineering
Corporation in Fortune depicting Uncle Sam offering the
Fifth Freedom, “free enterprise”
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The Home Front:
Women
• Women at War
• Women at Work
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This print, part of the America in the War exhibition, depicts a stylized image of women workers.
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Visions of Postwar
Freedom
Focus Question:
What visions of America’s postwar role began to emerge during the war?
Visions of Postwar
Freedom: Luce,
Wallace, and NPRB
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•
Toward an American Century
“The Way of Life of Free Men”
Unlike the lathe operator on the previous page, the woman operating industrial machinery remains glamorous, with makeup in place and hair unruffled.
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Despite the new independence enjoyed by millions of women,
WWII propaganda posters emphasized the male-dominated family.
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Visions of Postwar
Freedom: Economics and employment
• An Economic Bill of Rights
• The Road to Serfdom
Ben Shahn’s poster, Our Friend, for the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ political action committee
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The American Dilemma
Focus Question:
How did American minorities face threats to their freedom at home and abroad during World War II?
The American Dilemma:
Ethnic pluralism
• Patriotic Assimilation
Arthur Poinier’s cartoon for the Detroit Free Press demonstrates white ethnic groups incorporated within the boundaries of American freedom.
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The American Dilemma:
Mexican-Americans
• The Bracero Program
• Mexican-American Rights
The American Dilemma:
Asian-Americans
• Indians during the War
• Asian-Americans in Wartime
• Japanese-American Internment
Map 22.4 Japanese- Americans
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Wartime Propaganda
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Fumiko Hayashida
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The American Dilemma: blacks
• Blacks and the War
• Blacks and Military Service
During World War II, Red Cross blood banks separated blood from black and white Americans .
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This is America propaganda
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The American Dilemma:
Civil Rights
• Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Double-V
This Is the Enemy, a 1942 poster by Victor Ancona and
Karl Koehler
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The American Dilemma:
Race relations
• What the Negro Wants
The American Dilemma:
Racial justice
• An American Dilemma
• Black Internationalism
World War II reinvigorated the movement for civil rights
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Paul Robeson, the black actor, singer, and battler for civil rights, leading Oakland dockworkers
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The End of the War
Focus Question:
How did the end of the war begin to shape the postwar world?
The End of the War:
1944–1945
•
“The Most Terrible Weapon”
The End of the War:
Atomic Bomb
• The Dawn of the Atomic Age
• The Nature of the War
Remains of an Elementary School after Hiroshima Bombing
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The End of the War: postwar planning
• Planning the Postwar World
• Yalta and Bretton Woods
The Big Three—Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill—at their first meeting in Tehran, Iran, 1943
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The End of the War:
Aftermath of war
• The United Nations
• Peace, But not Harmony
This 1943 cartoon from the Chicago Defender questions whether non-white peoples will be accorded the right to choose their own government.
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Review
• Fighting World War II
Focus Question: What steps led to American participation in World
War II?
• The Home Front
Focus Question: How did the United States mobilize economic resources and promote popular support for the war effort?
• Visions of Postwar Freedom
Focus Question: What visions of America's postwar role began to emerge during the war?
Review Continued
• The American Dilemma
Focus Question: How did American minorities face threats to their freedom at home and abroad during World War II?
• The End of the War
Focus Question: How did the end of the war begin to shape the postwar world?
Title
Eric Foner on World War II, pt 1:
African-Americans' experience
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Eric Foner on World War II, pt 2: internment of Japanese-Americans http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/m p4/&f=question113
Eric Foner on World War II, pt 3:
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Eric Foner on World War II, pt 4: treatment of Japanese-Americans http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/m p4/&f=question118
Eric Foner on the Universal
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—— Chapter 23 ——
The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
• Origins of the Cold War
• The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom
• The Truman Presidency
• The Anticommunist Crusade
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AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by
Eric Foner