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7.
The "Good War": Mobilisation and Transformation
POWEPOINT
PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Why was there such resistance to American involvement
in the war?
2. How did the US mobilise for war?
3. How did the war reveal the strengths, weaknesses and internal
tensions in American society?
Required
Reading
Pete
Daniel, "Going among Strangers: Southern Reactions to World War
II", The Journal of American History, Vol. 77, No. 3. (Dec.,
1990), pp. 886-911.(JSTOR)
Further Reading:
John Morton Blum, V was for Victory: Politics and Culture during
World War II
Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the
1940s
Daniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during
World War II (2000)
Primary Documents:
FDR's "Infamy" speech, December 8, 1941
"Woman-Power!",
1943
Franklin
Roosevelt calls for national sacrifice in radio address,28 April, 1942
President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech,
1941
Man
in zoot suit, c. 1943
Web links
Powers
of Persuasion: Poster Art from WWII
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