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Aim: How did the US abandon their policy of isolation of the 1930s?

Aim: How did the US abandon their policy of isolation of the 1930s?. Do Now: Review Book POP QUIZ! HW: Korematsu vs the US. Dictators of the time . Benito Mussolini : fascist party Italy Adolf Hitler: chancellor of Germany- Nazi Party Joseph Stalin : Russia “man of steel”.

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Aim: How did the US abandon their policy of isolation of the 1930s?

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  1. Aim: How did the US abandon their policy of isolation of the 1930s? Do Now: Review Book POP QUIZ! HW: Korematsuvs the US

  2. Dictators of the time • Benito Mussolini : fascist party Italy • Adolf Hitler: chancellor of Germany- Nazi Party • Joseph Stalin : Russia “man of steel”

  3. Weakness of the United Nations Militaristic Leaders British and France Appeasement Causes of WWII (before US is involved) Alliance and aggression Global Depression WWI destruction Failure of peace

  4. THE US REMAINS NEUTRAL • Germany • Italy • Japan • Britain • France • USSR • China • Eventually US AXIS ALLIES

  5. US Policy of Isolationism: • 1935,1937 Neutrality Acts: 1. Forbid exports to foreign warring nations 2. authorized the president to require warring power to pay cash with cargo 3. forbid loans to nations at war 4. barred US citizens to travel on ships of warring nations

  6. America viewed the War with HORROR & FEAR of axis conquest.

  7. Lend Lease Act 1941 • Authorized the president to sell, exchange, lend, equipped and supply any nation who defense is vital to THE SAFEY OF THE US. http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=lend+lease+act

  8. A national defense program is launched: • Congress puts money to defense. • 1940 Selective Service Act • Atlantic Charter: a document with self-determination “a system of general security”

  9. December 7, 1941 • Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=pearl+harbor

  10. The next day FDR asked Congress to declare war. “a date that will live in infamy. -FDR

  11. WWII: “total war” Means EVERY PART Of life is effected.

  12. General Douglas MacAuther • Lead the battle in the Pacific against Japan. • Midway: Japanese Major defeat at midway island

  13. WWII: A challenge in Civil Liberties • Aliens face restrictions • Executive order 9066: designated certain areas of war zones which anyone can be removed for any reason.

  14. Policy of Interment • Temporary imprisonment of a specific group. • Japanese were put in isolation there (AZ)

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