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24:4 America Moves Toward War

24:4 America Moves Toward War. Cash and Carry. FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939 Isolationism? “all aid short of war”. Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers. Germany Italy Japan. Mobilization in the U.S. Defense spending First peacetime military draft Selective Training and Service Act.

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24:4 America Moves Toward War

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  1. 24:4 America Moves Toward War

  2. Cash and Carry • FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939 • Isolationism? • “all aid short of war”

  3. Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers Germany Italy Japan

  4. Mobilization in the U.S. • Defense spending • First peacetime military draft • Selective Training and Service Act

  5. 1940 Election3rd Term

  6. 1941 Lend Lease Plan • Great Arsenal of Democracy • $50 billion: GB, FR, USSR, China • Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union?? “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”

  7. German Wolf Packs • U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments • U.S. attack in self defense • Sonar, radar helped

  8. Atlantic Charter • Churchill wants military support! • Gets Declaration of war aims • Collective security • Disarmament • Self determination • Economic cooperation • Freedom of the seas

  9. Wilson’s 14 pointsTold ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! • No secret treaties • Freedom of the seas • Free trade • Demilitarization • Self determination • League of nations

  10. Allies • 26 nations: militarily and economically • U.S. • Great Britain • France????? • USSR

  11. 1941 Undeclared Naval WarU.S. v. Germany • “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him” • Armed merchant ships • Shoot U-boats on sight

  12. Hideki Tojo&EmpererHirohito • Japanese expansion in Asia • U.S. embargo • Oil

  13. Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941“A day that will live in infamy” • Largest U.S. naval base in Pacific • 2 waves : 7:55 am, 8:55 am • 2,403 lives, 1,178 wounded, 21 ships damaged, 300 airplanes destroyed

  14. USS Arizona Memorial

  15. America Enters WWII • U.S. declares war on Japan • Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. • Isolationists: “The only thing now to do is to lick the hell out of them”

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