WORLD WAR II

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5/13 Learning Target- I can explain the steps that led to

US involvement into World War II.

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AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

Origins?

George WashingtonMonroe DoctrineFailure to join the League of Nations

LEND-LEASE ACTNeutrality Act of 1939

FDR found a way around the Neutrality Acts to provide aid, including warships to Great Britain.

He convinced Congress to sign the Lend-Lease which allowed the US to sell or lend war materials:“to any country whose defense the

President deems vital to the defense of the United States!”

FDR said the US would become the Arsenal of Democracy- sound

familiar?

US response to Japanese aggression

US bans sale items to Japan that include war materials: iron, steel and oil

Extreme militarists gaining power in Japan

Japan wanted lands in Asia and Pacific

US interfering in plans

NEUTRALITY SHATTERED1941

December 7, 1941 Japanese War planes attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

FDR called it “a date that will live in infamy”!

Attack fueled nationalism and patriotism

Congress declared waron Japan the day afterthe attack

USS Arizona

Go to Pearl Harbor Photos

Major Events of World War II Europe:

1939 Germany Invades Poland – Blitzkrieg1940 Most of Europe falls to the Nazis -

France & Battle of Britain June 6, 1944 D-Day Allied invasion of

Normandy, France across English ChannelDecember 1944 – Battle of Bulge – last Nazi

offensiveApril 1945 US and USSR forces meet at Elbe River and Hitler kills himselfMay 8th 1945 V-E Day

Major Events of World War II

Asia 1941-1942 Japan seizes most of SE Asia and is

on move towards Australia US begins Island hopping campaign 1942 Battle of Midway – US gains

supremacy in Pacific 1944-1945 bitter battles on Iwo Jima and

Okinawa August 6, 1945 Truman agrees to use

Atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 9, 1945 US drops atomic bomb on

Nagasaki August 14, 1945 Hirohito announces

Japanese defeat to people

Wartime Diplomacy Atlantic Charter Meeting 1941 – FDR &

Churchill meet over ensuring lasting peace

Yalta 1945 Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin outlined division of postwar Germany and planned for trials of war criminals - Nuremberg

Wartime Diplomacy Potsdam 1945 – Truman and other Allied

leaders warned Japan to surrender to prevent utter destruction…..