America enters the WWII

CH 11

Tuesday April 17, 2012

Daily goal(s): Understand how the US tried to

remain neutral, how Pearl Harbor ended Isolationism and how the US aided the Allies before it entered the war.

Neutrality Act of 1939

As WWII began in Europe, America proclaimed itself neutral.

Destroyers-for-Bases Deal British were running out of ships and

money. FDR traded the British 50 old

destroyers for bases on British land.

Axis Powers

ITALY GERMANY

JAPAN

Lend-Lease Act

US would “lend” weapons/supplies to countries who fought the Axis (Germany, Japan, Italy)

Main recipients of Lend-Lease: Britain, Soviet Union and China.

America would be the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixNh5wrBxTo

Atlantic Charter

FDR and Churchill meet before America entered the war in August 1941.

They both signed the Atlantic Charter which had 6 main goals for the war:

1. Defeat Germany first!

Pearl Harbor

Japan did not declare war before the attack.

Isolationism/Neutrality is now over. Destroys most of the US Navy’s

Pacific Fleet. The Navy Aircraft Carriers were

not damaged because they were not at Pearl that day.

Create a flowchart which links the following terms by cause and effect:

Attack on Pearl Harbor US declares war on Italy and

Germany Germany and Italy declare war on US US embargoes strategic materials

(Oil) on Japan US declares war on Japan Japan invades China (violates Open

Door policy)

US declares war on Germany/Italy

Germany/Italy declare war on US

America declares war on Japan

Attack on Pearl Harbor

US embargoes Oil to Japan

Japan invades China (violates Open Door Policy)