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Group Tasks
Spirit 338339 & 339340• Compare & contrast US neutrality policy in 1939 with that of the US before the War of 1812.
Spirit 341342 & 342344• Explain which argument on the policy of isolation during WWII you find most convincing Lindbergh's or the New York Times'.
Spirit 344345 & 345• Analyze the purpose of the Lend Lease Program. Evaluate how it relates to the US Foreign Policy at the start of WWII.
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"We have nothing to fear from a NaziEuropean victory"
The America First Party
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I. AngloAmerican Alliance• Roosevelt + Churchill held secret negotiations in 1939 on how the U.S. would help Britain against Germany • FDR insisted that Britain open most of its Empire to U.S. trade in order to get lendlease aid• By 1944, FDR specifically insisted on access to British owned oil fields in Iran
II. U.S./Britain Alliance with France• June 1940 Germany invades France and a "neutral" French regime is created in Vichy• AngloAmerican seizure in Nov. 1942 in North Africa established a new government in Vichy
US Global Aims
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THE U.S. AND THE IMPENDING WAR
F.D.R. vs. Isolationists
• F.D.R.'s policies1. Arms embargo (19351939)2. LendLease (194045)
• Isolationists1. Congressional Republicans2. some big business
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (193545)
Free trade, open markets, no tariffs, anticolonial
OBSTACLES
Germany1. In the 1930’s attempted to build an AskiMark2. FDR tried repeatedly to convince Hitler that the two countries could be allies and the US would loan Germany $$$ if Hitler would open his markets. Hitler refused.
Great Britain1. Ottawa Conference (1933): Britain established a “Sterling bloc.”2. Great Britain must agree to freetrade.3. Interested in oil in Mideast (S. Arabia and Kuwait).
Japan1. Japan created the EastAxis CoProsperity Sphere to seal off China, Vietnam, Korea and some Pacific Islands2. FDR tried to persuade Japan to open markets
• Soviet Union: FDR hoped to open markets sealed off by the Soviet government
MORE THAN INTERESTING: IBM created a computer punchcard system for Nazi’s to identify and keep track of Jews. (after 1935 to 1945)
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American Response to the events in Asia and Europe
3 Neutrality Acts US witholds weapons and loans "Cash and Carry" policy
Europe
. 1933 Hitler rises to power 1936 Axis Agreement (Germany, Italy, Japan) Nazis (to test their weapons) bomb Guernica in Spanish Civil War 1938 Anschluss with Austria 1938 Munich Pact Appeasement 1939 Germany invades Poland War begins
Asia
1931 Japan invades Manchuria1936 Japanese seize Chinese capital1940 US terminates a trade agreement with Japan (no access to scrap metals and oil)
1941 "US is the greatest arsenal of democracy" LendLease Act
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Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941
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