WORLD WAR TWO

Quarantine and Isolationist:

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

Four Freedoms:

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

     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