History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

World War II: The United States and Japan

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I. The Setting

Axis powers: Italy, Germany, Japan
Allied Powers: England, the Soviet Union, and the United States ("Big Three")
Atlantic Charter (August 1941)
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

II. The Road to Pearl Harbor

Immigration Act of 1924
London Naval Treaty of 1930
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Japanese militarism
Japanese seize Manchuria (1931)
Stimson Doctrine (1932)
sinking of the Panay (1937)

III. Japanese and American Propaganda

Read This and the War Is Won
Creel Commission (Committee on Public Information)
Frank Capra, Why We Fight

Further Reading

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