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1. What was required by the Neutrality Acts ? Did they succeed in keeping the US neutral

1. What was required by the Neutrality Acts ? Did they succeed in keeping the US neutral 2. Why did Roosevelt ask Congress to pass the Lend Lease Act ? 3. What was the relationship between Japan and the US before the attack on Pearl Harbor?

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1. What was required by the Neutrality Acts ? Did they succeed in keeping the US neutral

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  1. 1. What was required by the Neutrality Acts? • Did they succeed in keeping the US neutral • 2. Why did Roosevelt ask Congress to pass the Lend Lease Act? • 3. What was the relationship between Japan and the US before the attack on Pearl Harbor? • 4. How much did President Roosevelt consider American public opinion when deciding how to respond to the conflict in Europe? • 5. Why did he need to consider public opinion at all?

  2. DECEMBER 8, 1941

  3. JEANNETTE RANKIN

  4. SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT - 1940

  5. G I ’ s

  6. War Related Production • 1939 = 2% • 1944 = 44% • M-1 Carbine • 0 in 1941 • 1945 – 6 mil. • 161,000/mo. • Liberty Ships • 200 days • 40days War production

  7. By mid-1945 the U.S. had produced • 300,000 airplanes • 80,000 landing craft • 100,000 tanks • 5,600 merchant vessels • 6,000,000 rifles • 41,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition War production

  8. Workforce

  9. ≈ 700,000 left the south • North & West • Washington • Pop. ↑ 35.3% • b/w 1940-45 African American Migration

  10. finance

  11. CARS • BICYCLES • GAS • FUEL OILS & KEROSINE • STOVES • RUBBER • SHOES • SUGAR • COFFEE • PROCESSED FOODS • MEATS & CANNED FISH • CHEESE & CANNED MILK • FATS • TYPEWRITERS • NYLONS • TIRES

  12. VICTORY GARDENS

  13. Cans Tires Pots & Pans Razor Blades Old Shovels Old Lip-Stick tubes recycling TOTAL WAR

  14. C18s1 • DO: • 1-4 ALL • KEY TERMS (PICT. DICT.) ASSIGNMENT (SORRY)

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