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Mobilizing for War

Mobilizing for War. 1928 . Kellogg-Briand Pact signed– war is not a national policy .

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Mobilizing for War

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  1. Mobilizing for War

  2. 1928 • Kellogg-Briand Pact signed– war is not a national policy President Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Frank B. Kellogg, standing, with representatives of the governments who have ratified the Treaty for Renunciation of War (Kellogg-Briand Pact), in the East Room of the White House.

  3. 1935 • Congress passes first in a series of Neutrality Acts, extending ban on arms sales and loans to nations engaged in civil wars

  4. July 1937 • Japan attacks China – we send supplies to China, skirting around the Neutrality Acts because Japan didn’t actually declare war • - Roosevelt speaks out against isolationism but the isolationists accuse him of trying to lead us to war, so he backs off

  5. 1939 • We turn back the St. Louis fearing German enemy agents on board, as well as for reasons of anti-Semitism, and fear of losing US jobs and threatening economic recovery

  6. September 1939 • Congress passes “cash and carry” legislation to help Britain and France which will keep us out of war

  7. by June 1940 • We have sent 500,000 rifles, 80,000 machine guns, and traded 50 destroyers for leases at British military bases – “decidedly un-neutral”

  8. September 27, 1940 • Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, becoming the Axis Powers – aimed at keeping the US out of war by being a larger threat

  9. US boosts defense spending and passes 1st peacetime draft – the Selective Training and Service Act for men 21-35 years old drafting 1 million men for 1 year to serve in Western Hemisphere only

  10. Roosevelt re-elected to 3rd term when Wendell Wilkie proves to believe in many of the same policies • Roosevelt gives speech saying the only way to defeat the Axis powers so the world is not living at gunpoint if France and Britain are defeated is to become a “great arsenal of democracy”

  11. 1940 • Britain is out of money for cash & carry • March 1940 – Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act to lend and lease arms and supplies to any country whose defense is vital to the US

  12. June 1941 • Hitler breaks his pact with Stalin and invades the USSR – the US sends lend-lease supplies to USSR – the enemy of our enemy is our friend

  13. July 1941 • Japan invades French owned Indochina so US cuts off all trade with Japan – Japan needs peace to keep oil and supplies for their expansion, so peace talks with US begin

  14. August 1941 • Roosevelt extends terms of draftees, meets with Churchill on USS August to settle on a joint declaration of war aims called the Atlantic Charter, for the common purpose of Allies fighting against Axis powers – which is signed by 26 nations

  15. September 1941 • Roosevelt allows US warships to attack German U-boats in self-defense after wolf packs sink as much as 350,000 tons of supplies in one month. After U-boats sink US destroyers Kearny and Reuben James, order is given to shoot U-boats on site

  16. November 5, 1941 • Japan prepares attack on Pearl Harbor

  17. December 7, 1941 • Japan attacks US base at Pearl Harbor – 2403 people killed, 1178 wounded, 21 ships sunk or damaged, and over 300 planes destroyed

  18. December 8, 1941 • Roosevelt declares war, calling the attack a “day which will live in infamy” • 5 million men volunteer to fight – to meet the demands, the Selective Service draft another 10 million

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