24.4 America Moves Toward War Objectives: 1. Describe the U.S. response to the outbreak of war. 2.show how Roosevelt assisted the allies without declaring.

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.

Lend Lease Act

G.I. Roundtable Series

G.I. Roundtable Series

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???

Expansion of the Japanese Empire

PEARL HARBOR

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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Site: Pearl Harbor Remembered

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/winter/images/pearl-harbor.jpg

WAR DECLARATION

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?

TERMS Axis Powers

Lend-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter

Allies

Hideki Tojo

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