Quarantine Speech to World War Two

"This neighbor told me that what we needed was a damn good war, and we'd solve our agricultural problems. And I said, 'Yes, but I'd hate to pay for it with my son. Which we did.' He weeps. 'It's too much of a price to pay.'"
"The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time."
"The war changed our whole idea of how we wanted to live when we got back. We set our sights pretty high. All of us wanted better levels of living."
"Ours was the only country among the combatants in World War Two that was neither invaded nor bombed. Ours were the only cities not blasted to rubble."

How to Quarantine Disease in an Isolationist Country:

I. Intro:
Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Would you consider going to a country to fight on behalf of the people there even if it meant risking your life and breaking your own country's law?




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
C. War: Attack of Pearl Harbor

IV. War:
16 million men and women entered
1/8th in combat
33 months=average time of service


D-Day


Deception in Modern War
Operation Fortitude
Operation Skye
British Fourth Army
First U.S. Army Group



June 6, 1944 (to June 11, 1944)
--4,100 landing craft
--12,000 landing support aircraft
-- 1,000 air transports (paratroopers)
--10,000 tons of bombs dropped
--14,000 attack sorties flown.
--in all, 47 divisions (140,000 troops)


Country Military Civilian
Soviet Union 8,668,000 16,900,000 25,568,000
China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000
Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000
Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000
Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000
Yugoslavia 300,000 1,400,000 1,700,000
Rumania 520,000 465,000 985,000
France 340,000 470,000 810,000
Hungary 750,000
Austria 380,000 145,000 525,000
Greece 520,000
Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000
Czechoslovakia 400,000
Great Britain 326,000 62,000 388,000
USA 400,000 400,000
Holland 14,000 236,000 250,000
Belgium 10,000 75,000 85,000
Finland 79,000 79,000
Canada 42,000 42,000
India 36,000 36,000
Australia 39,000 39,000
Spain 12,000 10,000 22,000
Bulgaria 19,000 2,000 21,000
New Zealand 12,000 12,000
South Africa 9,000 9,000
Norway 5,000 5,000
Denmark 4,000 4,000


World War Two was a Total War:
What does that mean?

1936: 82% of Americans say married women should not work
1941-1944: 6 million new women in workforce, increase of 57%
“Your first duty is your beauty”—cosmetic slogan

How does this war end? (trick question)
"A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from the US B-29 Superfortress."

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 (100,000 dead)
Nagasaki: August 8, 1945 (35,000 dead)