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24:4 America Moves Toward War
Cash and Carry
• FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939• Isolationism?• “all aid short of war”
Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers
GermanyItalyJapan
Mobilization in the U.S.
• Defense spending• First peacetime military draft– Selective Training and Service Act
1940 Election3rd Term
1941 Lend Lease Plan
• Great Arsenal of Democracy• $50 billion: GB, FR, USSR, China• Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union?? “the enemy
of my enemy is my friend”
German Wolf Packs
• U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments• U.S. attack in self defense• Sonar, radar helped
Atlantic Charter• Churchill wants
military support!• Gets Declaration
of war aims– Collective
security– Disarmament– Self
determination– Economic
cooperation– Freedom of the
seas
Wilson’s 14 pointsTold ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• No secret treaties• Freedom of the
seas• Free trade• Demilitarization• Self determination• League of nations
Allies
• 26 nations: militarily and economically• U.S.• Great Britain • France?????• USSR
1941 Undeclared Naval WarU.S. v. Germany
• “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him”
• Armed merchant ships• Shoot U-boats on sight
Hideki Tojo&
Emperer Hirohito
• Japanese expansion in Asia• U.S. embargo
• Oil
Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941
“A day that will live in infamy”
• Largest U.S. naval base in Pacific• 2 waves : 7:55 am, 8:55 am• 2,403 lives, 1,178 wounded, 21 ships damaged, 300 airplanes
destroyed
USS Arizona Memorial
America Enters WWII
• U.S. declares war on Japan• Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.• Isolationists: “The only thing now to do is to
lick the hell out of them”
