Key Points:
- The United States was once again isolationist at the beginning of WWII
- Less involved in world trade and more neutrality acts passed
- Embargo placed on Japan caused the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the beginning of U.S. involvement in the war
- The majority of U.S. involvement of the war occured on the Pacific front
- Island hopping strategy was undertaken to get closer to Japan
- Holocaust was occuring at the same time as the fighting in the war
- European front ended months before the Pacific front
- War officially ended after the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Key Points:
- On the homefront the government took control of industrial production
- Involvement in the war ended the Great Depression by employing people and increasing production
- Minorities experienced success throughout the war. Women and African Americans served in factories and in the military
*Only during the war, they were fired when the men came home from war
- Discriminatory especially toward Japanese Americans
- Sparked the beginnings of the CIvil Rights Movement as minorities were gaining more rights and freedoms
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