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Isolation/Neutrality Notes• Most Americans cling to ISOLATIONISM in the
early stages of WWII• Early 1930s a flood of books criticizing US
involvement in WWI emerged.– Documentation of large profits that banks and
manufactures made
• In 1935 in effort to keep US out of war Neutrality Acts were passed by Congress. First two acts outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war. The third act was passed in response to the fighting in Spain. This act extended the ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil war.
Isolation/Neutrality Notes• 1937 Japan attacks China: Roosevelt called on
peace-loving nations to “quarantine”, or isolate, aggressor nations in order to stop the spread of war.
• As German tanks thundered across Poland, Roosevelt revised Neutrality Act of 1935
• September 1939 Congress pass • “CASH AND CARRY” provision
Would help France and Britain defeat Hitler and keep the US out of the war
• Lend Lease Act: passed in 1941Allowed US to ship arms and other supplies to Allies
without immediate payment
Pearl Harbor Clip• Casualties, Significance, Response
• How do the Japanese view their duties in the attack?
• What events took place prior to the attack?
• What was the reaction of the Americans?
• Besides the Harbor, what else did the Japanese seek to destroy?
• What is the Japanese Admiral afraid they have done?
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor• Dec. 7, 1941- “A date which will live in
infamy”• Surprise aerial attack by Japanese Imperial
Navy• Attack took place about 245 miles north of
Oahu Island• 7:53 Hawaiian time- “Tora Tora Tora!” • Two waves of planes- 353 planes • Carried out prior to the declaration of war• Hideki Tojo ordered Japanese Navy to
prepare for attack• Mastermind of Pearl Harbor- Admiral
Yamamoto
Attack
Battleship Row
U.S. Casualties
• 2,403 Military and civilians killed
• 1,178 Military and civilians wounded
• Sunk or damaged 21 ships, included 8 battleships
• 300 aircrafts were severely damaged or destroyed
Japanese Casualties
• 55 airmen
• 9 submariners killed, 1 captured
• 29 planes destroyed
• 4 mini-subs sunk
USS Arizona
• 1,102 men died in the explosion and sinking of the Arizona
• Now a memorial to those who lost their lives
Significance of Pearl
• Shattered American view of being invulnerable
• Devastated US fleet at Pearl Harbor
• Japanese did not get the Aircraft Carriers!
• Did not get oil storage facilities and dry docks
• Did not lower the moral of the U.S.- in fact, it did the opposite.
U.S. Response to Pearl Harbor
• President Roosevelt’s “A date which will live in infamy” speech
• U.S. Declaration of War
