Events Leading to United States of America Involvment in World War II.In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany, Russia, the United States, France and Britain. This treaty humiliated Germany in more ways than one. The military could not have more than a hundred men. Germany lost territory to her neighbors. Germany was also forced to accept blame for the start of World War I, and Germany began paying reparations. This treaty created unrest in Germany
By 1921, Adolf Hitler was named leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party nicknamed the Nazis. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany. In 1939, the United States claimed neutrality. In 1940, the United States joined the war. On December 8, 1941, the day of Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war on Japan. |
California Home frontSince the start the United States' involvement in World War II, and due to the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940, the United States young men were leaving industry jobs and business lives to go to war. Even the men's Major League Baseball left to go to war. These men left their jobs to Women, migrant workers, and the Mexicans.
Since the men were out in war, the United States had no way of producing products for war unless the United States allowed women to work in shops. To help influence the United States women to go work, the United States created a fictional character called Rosie the Riveter.Women were trained as mechanics in Long Beach, Ca. Aircraft test flights took place in Inglewood, Ca.
However, the cause of many women working in factories, and men going overseas to war, had been Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed by Japanese planes. Since many Japanese lived in the United States, and Pearl Harbor had caused paranoia, many Japanese were brought to Internment Camps. Such internment camps would like Manzanar which is located in Central California. The purpose of these internment camps were to "'protect' the Japanese-Americans from [racial] restribution [the Japanese] may have faced during the on-going war."
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