Quickwrite:

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• Quickwrite
• What persuasive images and slogans are featured
  in this poster?
• To what emotions does this poster appeal?
• Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United
  States was determined to avoid war and remain
  neutral. In what ways does this poster attempt
  to change public opinion?

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• America Moves Toward War
• Ch.16, Sec.4

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The U.S. moves away from neutrality

• FDRs cash carry
• Neutrality Act of 1939 passed
• Japan, Germany Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
  Axis Powers
• U.S. army- really weak Selective Service
  Training Act
• Roosevelt re-elected

4
To protect democracy

• New plan lend-lease isolationists argue against
  it
• Lend-Lease Act passed in 1941
• U.S. aids Soviet Union
• Germans sink ships (Wolf Packs)

5
Planning for war

• Atlantic Charter- Joint declaration of war aims
  (FDR Churchill)
• Allies form United Nations
• Germans keep attacking U.S. ships!

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Japan

• Expansionism, desire for vast colonial empire
• U.S. cuts off trade w/ Japan in protest
• Hideki Tojo orders Japanese navy to attack
• U.S. knew that an attack was coming

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Pearl Harbor
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lick the hell out of them

• Pearl Harbor attack was a victory for Japan
• U.S. Navy suffers more losses than in WWI
• Congress approves declaration of war against
  Japan Germany Italy declare war on U.S.