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 war. 3. summarize the events that brought the u.s. into war

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24.4America Moves Toward WarObjectives1.
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
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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?

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FDR v. Wendell Wilkie (1940)
http//learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/im
ages/FDR.jpg
http//www.gwu.edu/erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/
images/fdrl_wilkie.jpg
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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.

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Atlantic CharterSecret Alliance between US and
UK, and later the USSR, which becomes the basis
for the United Nations
http//odur.let.rug.nl/usa/D/1926-1950/war/at_cha
rter.htm
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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???

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Expansion of the Japanese Empire
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Site Pearl Harbor Remembered
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TERMS

• Objectives1. 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

• Axis Powers
• Lend-Lease Act
• Atlantic Charter
• Allies
• Hideki Tojo