24.4 america moves toward war objectives: 1. describe the u.s. response to the outbreak of war....
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24.4America Moves Toward War
Objectives:
1. Describe the U.S. response to the outbreak of war.
2.show how Roosevelt assisted the allies without declaring war.
3. summarize the events that brought the u.s. into war
Neutrality Erodes… Neutrality Act of 1939 allows “cash-
and-carry”
1940 – Japan, Germany, and Italy announce alliance of Axis Powers
Why do they do this? Why is this a bad thing for the U.S.?
$37 billion approved for military build-up
Summer of 1940 – France falls and Britain under siege
9/2/1940 - US gives 50 destroyers for naval bases in a swap with UK
9/6/1940 – US Conscription law approved
What did this do?
FDR v. Wendell Wilkie (1940)
http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/FDR.jpg http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/images/fdrl_wilkie.jpg
A Slumbering Giant Stirs… 3/1941 – Lend-Lease Act passed
6/1941 –Germany attacks “friend” USSR,
FDR extends Lend-Lease to USSR
Mid-1941 - US freezes Japanese Assets
7/1941 – US Navy accompanies convoys to UK
8/1941 – Atlantic Charter (US, UK -later USSR) expresses the common purpose for the Allies against the Axis.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1926-1950/war/at_charter.htm
Atlantic CharterSecret Alliance between US and UK, and later the USSR, which becomes the basis for the United Nations
First Blood Fall 1941 – German U-boats sink 2 US destroyers and
several merchant ships
US arms its merchant ships
Fall 1941 – US cuts off oil to Japan after Japan invades French Indochina
11/1941 - Hideki Tojo prepares Japan for war with US
US knows Japan will strike, but not where
12/7/1941 – Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
12/11/1941 – Italy and Germany declare war on US
WHY DID THE U.S. WAIT TO BE ATTACKED???
The U.S.S. West Virginia, Pearl HarborThe stricken U.S.S. West Virginia was one of the eight battleships caught in the surprise Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, on December 7, 1941. In this photograph, sailors on a launch attempt to rescue a crew member from the water as oil burns around the sinking ship. (U.S. Army)
The U.S.S. West Virginia, Pearl Harbor
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He CAN'T Forget Pearl Harbor--Can You?
This World War II poster encourages support for the U.S. war effort by pointing to one soldier's disabilities that resulted from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. (Library of Congress)
He CAN'T Forget Pearl Harbor--Can You?
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America at War: 1941-1945FDR’s STRATEGY:
1. Attack Germany first: save USSR and UK
2. Attack Japan second: give ground in Pacific
PROBLEM: Will America arm itself (and its Allies) in time?
CONCERN: Were totalitarian warriors better than citizen-soldiers?
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