Axis Action and US reaction

Axis ActionUS Reaction

EvaluationDo you agree or disagree with

American foreign policy from 1930-1941?

• Context – What is going on in the US and in the world in the 1930s? Set the mood

• Thesis – How would you answer this question in 25 words or less?

Agree Disagree

• Do you think the priority should be isolationism?

• Do you think the priority should be the US economy in the midst of the Depression?

• Do you think the priority should arms limitations in the world?

• Do you think the priority should be providing humanitarian support?

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1931)

– Japan violates the charter

of the League of Nations

and invades Manchuria

• US Reaction

– Appeasement:pacification – avoiding

war by making

concessions

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1935)

– Italy invades Ethiopia with bombers and tanks

• US Reaction

– Neutrality Acts: no

American could sail on a

belligerent ship, sell or

transport munitions to a

belligerent, or make

loans to a belligerent

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1936)

– Germany violates the

Treaty of Versailles by

sending troops to the

Rhineland (border with

France)

• US Reaction

– Cash and Carry: belligerents may buy US

products if they pay cash

and transport the

products on their own

ships

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1937)

– Japan invades China

after troops exchange

gunfire at Marco Polo

Bridge and brutally

slaughter 300,000

Chinese civilians.

• US Reaction

– Embargo: Do NOT acknowledge a declaration or war. Halt shipment of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline to Japan

What is your advice?

• Kristallnacht (1938)

– Several dozen Jews lost

their lives and tens of

thousands were arrested

and sent to

concerntration camps

after 7,000 Jewish

businesses, cemeteries,

schools, and homes were

trashed or looted

• US Reaction– Immigration Reform:

Roosevelt asked Congress to allow 12,000-15,000 German refugees who were on visitors visas to be able to stay indefinitely

– BUT, no changes are made to allow more refugees in

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1939)

– Germany annexes

Austria, Sudetenland,

and Czechoslovakia

• US Reaction

– Appeasement:pacification – avoiding

war by making

concessions

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1939)

– Germany begins

blitzkrieg invasion of

Poland, Denmark,

Norway, Netherlands,

Belgium, Luxemburg,

France, and Britain

• US Reaction

– Destroyers for bases: trade 50 WWI destroyers

for right to build 8 bases

in western hemisphere

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1940)

– The French government

falls leaving and the

German Luftwaffe

relentlessly bombs

London.

• US Reaction

– Lend Lease Act: “send

guns not sons” - Loan a

limitless supply of arms

to victims of aggression.

Accounts will be settled

by returning the used

weapons or their

equivalents when the war

is over.

What is your advice?

• Axis Action (1941)

– Japan attacks Pearl

Harbor damaging 200

aircrafts, 19 ships, and

killing 2,200 people

• US Reaction

– FDR’s War Message to Congress: Declare war on Japan

Message to Congresshttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.…It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.…I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

EvaluationDo you agree or disagree with

American foreign policy from 1930-1941?

• Context – What is going on in the US and in the world in the 1930s? Set the mood

• Thesis – How would you answer this question in 25 words or less?

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Do you agree or disagree

with America’s foreign policy

plans from 1931-1941