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Lecture 2

US Involvement in WWII. Lecture 2. Standard 11.7.1. Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor. Essential Question: Why did the United States favor Isolationism, and what changed their mind?.

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Lecture 2

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  1. US Involvement in WWII Lecture 2

  2. Standard 11.7.1 • Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor. • Essential Question: Why did the United States favor Isolationism, and what changed their mind?

  3. World War II Begins • Rhineland, 1936 • area between France and Germany • Austria, 1938 • Hitler took it without a fight • Czechoslovakia, 1938 - 1939 • Hitler took the German-speaking western half before the Munich Pact

  4. Hitler+Stalin=BFF’s • Non-Aggression Pact, 1939 • Germany and Russia agreed to not fight each other • this meant no second front if war began

  5. The Plight of Poland • Invasion of Poland, 1939 • blitzkrieg warfare • September 1, 1939 • USSR invaded two weeks later • September 17, 1939 • Poland fell within a month • France and Britain declared war • official beginning of the war • Polish government fled to Britain

  6. Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy • Americans favor neutrality • US passed neutrality acts in 1935, 1936, and 1937 • German subs attacked US merchant ships • in 1939, FDR started limited arms sales to the Allies • “If they fall, we fall”

  7. Partner B

  8. Lend-Lease Act • Lend-Lease Act, 1941 • FDR called for the US to be the “great arsenal of democracy” • the US “leased” military supplies to the Allies • Hitler invaded the USSR in 1941 and the US sent aid

  9. Atlantic Charter • Atlantic Charter, 1941 • FDR and Churchill met on a warship off Newfoundland • they signed an agreement to support each other • included plans for the UN

  10. 4 Freedoms • Four Freedom’s Speech, 1941 • FDR’s state of the union address included goals for four basic freedoms we should fight for • freedom of speech and worship, freedom from want and fear

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  12. Pearl Harbor • Pearl Harbor, 1941 • FDR put an embargo on Japan • oil, iron ore, fuel, steel, and rubber • by this time Japan was Germany’s ally • Japan wanted to expand and wanted the US to stay neutral • a decisive defeat would keep the US out of the war • Japan was still pretending to carry out diplomatic talks in DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVntiyMfOj8&feature=endscreen&NR=1&safe=active

  13. A Day That Will Live in Infamy • Pearl Harbor, 1941 • six aircraft carriers brought 360 planes to attack the naval base • Americans suffered heavy losses • the Arizona is still at the bottom of the harbor • the US fleet was down for six months • luckily the 3 aircraft carriers were not in the harbor

  14. Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy • Pearl Harbor, 1941 • “A day that will live in infamy” • the US declared war on Japan and its allies • Germany, Japan, and Italy declared war back • the Doolittle Raid was sent in retaliation and to show we could reach Tokyo • 16 planes destroyed 100 buildings and killed 50 people

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