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AP U.S. History World War II
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on World War II. She talks about isolationist foreign policy of 1930s, the Nye commission, the aggressive militarism and Fascism abroad, Nazi Germany, the time before U.S. enters war, the “four freedoms” by Norman Rockwell, the attack on Pearl Harbor and organizing for total war. She also explains wartime propaganda, the slogan “we can do it”, how the depression-era unemployment disappeared, the internal migration, civil rights concerns and double V, Civil Rights and effects on minorities. The other key points she illustrated are Japanese internment, map of relocation camps, Manzanar Today, the instructions posters, major military events during WWII, Pacific theatre, the European theatre, the VE Day, the end of War in Europe, the Holocaust and in the Pacific.
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