HI410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tehran Conference, Yalta Conference, Fair Employment Practice Committee

• School: Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
• Department: Health Information Technology
• Course: HI410
• Professor: John

Document Summary

World war ii marked a watershed in american history. The immediate challenge of defeating the enemy directly affected thousands of men and women, while the new world the war created had ramifications for millions of people. When war came, the united states was unprepared. Roosevelt"s 1941 survey of war preparedness estimated that the united states could not be ready to fight before june 1943. At first the war in the pacific, largely the responsibility of the united states, did not go well. The japanese enjoyed early successes, but the battle of midway in june 1942 was the turning point in the pacific war. War plans called for the united states to work first with britain and the soviet. Union to defeat germany, then to deal with japan. In particular, difficulties arose among the allies over how the americans and the british would carry the war into europe. Wartime policy encouraged the growth of big business.