One More

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One More
Well Alright, Alright, Alright
SHORT Power Point Wed!
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• Who are the 3 nationalist wackos from Europe?
• Stalin (SU), Hitler (GER), Mussolini (It)
• How many countries does Hitler take over?
• 14!
• 3. What policy does GB FR take?
• appeasement
• Who does Hitler bomb every night for 3 months?
• GB
• Why didnt he win the Battle of Britain?
• Radar
• 6. Name the Axis Powers
• GER, Italy, Japan, Austria
• 7. Name the Allied Powers

RECAP
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WWIIAmerica stays neutral again
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Remember, this is what America thinks
I Have seen war, and I hate war -FDR
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US is ANTI-WAR!
70 say we shouldnt have even entered WWI!
Girl Scouts change uniforms
College students stage Anti war
rallies Scholarships not Battleships

• 1935 Neutrality Acts
• No sale of arms or loans to nations at war

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Should the US enter NOW?
GB ATTACKED!!!
We should help defeat the Axis threat by turning
into the great arsenal of democracy

• FDR chats with the nation.

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Americans now want to help a little

• CASH CARRY CLAUSE
• You bring CASH,
• Well sell you arms,
• you CARRY them home!
• FDR says
• This will keep us out of war cause GB FR will
  beat Hitler w/ these guns!

What is this trying to prevent?!?!
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BUTGB runs out of !

• C C 1940 LEND LEASE ACT
• GB/FR is brokeno more cash to buy guns
• We LEND guns to
• any country whose defense was vital to the US
• SO they protect US, we give them Guns!

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Hitler Catches On

• Out come the U-boats again!

Wolf Packs 15-20 GER subs
April to May of 41 (5 weeks) 1.2 mil tons of
GB shipping sunk US navy has permission to attack
U-boats in self defense
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WHY?
cause HITLER thinks hes TNTDYNAMITE!
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US starts to build up the armyJUST IN CASE

• Increase in defense spending
• 1940 Selective Service Act
• Draft
• 16 mil men (18-35 yrs old)
• 1 mil drafted for 1 year of service
• But were still neutral"!

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FDR meets with GB/AlliesJUST IN CASE

• ATLANTIC CHARTER
• FDR meets secretly with Churchill (GB) on a
  warship
• Spelled out the principles
• of the Allies.

PS the US still claims its NEUTRAL!!!
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See if this sounds familiar
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• 1941 Like déjà vu
• USS Greer hit by uboat
• USS Pink Star hit
• USS Kearny
• USS Reuben hit
• CONGRESS STILL SAYS NO WAR!

THEY NEED A BIGGER REASON An Overt Act
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Guess what it happens to be.

• ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
• DECEMBER 7, 1941

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Why is Japan mad at the US anyway?

• Nationalist wacko Tojo
• Wants Japanese Empire too!
• Takes over FR GB land
• 2. Tries to take Guam PhilippinesUS Protests!
• 3. US Trade Embargo leaves them with no oiloops!
• 4. Talks peace w/ US then plans attack

shady
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Tojo Plans Pearl Harbor Attack
I even have a theme songlisten carefully!
Yep I DID IT!
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CONGRESS DECLARES WAR AGAINST AXIS
POWERSDECEMBER 8TH 1941

• PEARL HARBOR MANTAGE LIVE FOOTAGE
• (no, thats not Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck,
  Cuba Gooding Jr... It just looks like them)

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Old man Does the CC mean the US will fight in
the war?
FDR Nope! Just more guns for the allies!

• The US is still kind of NEUTRAL right!?!