Mobilizing for Defense Aka – Getting Ready to Fight Hitler and Japan
Jan 01, 2016
Mobilizing for Defense
Aka – Getting Ready to Fight Hitler and Japan
Cash & Carry (1939)
• Write one sentence that summarizes this concept._________________________.
• How did FDR “sell” this idea to those he wanted to stay neutral?
• Tripartite Pact = Axis Powers:a.
b.
c.
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• 16 mil men
FDR breaks precedent of Washington and in 1940 runs for a 3rd term.
Lend/___________ (3/1941)
• Would you give a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire?
• Cash & Carry didn’ t work b/c Br out of $
US Support for Stalin!• “If Hitler invaded Hell, the British would be prepared to work
with the devil himself!” Winston Churchill• So, Soviets get benefits of Lend/Lease
Hitler’s “Wolfpack” to Combat L/L
• 40 U-boats looking to sink ships carrying supplies to Allies
Atlantic Charter
• 1st time “united Nations” used as a terms
• Charter promised collective security, self-determination, and freedom of seas
• FDR promised Churchill he’d do everything to “force an incident” (does that include ignoring warnings of Pearl Harbor?
Pearl Harbor
• 12/6/1947 – FDR receives decoded message that Japan rejects all peace proposals b/c US had cut off their oil.
• 12/7/1941 – “a day that will live in infamy”
• Attack on Pearl Harbor