 Americans saw what happened last time they got into war.  Did not want to go to war again, especially since Great Depression is going on.  Stay Isolated was the motto.

 “Cash and Carry” – allow nations to buy American arms as long as they paid cash and carried the goods home in own ships.  Why would the United States do this? It allowed the United States to help the British and French while staying out of the war  Once the Axis Powers formed an alliance, the US definitely did not want to get involved… why???  It would have to fight a 2-ocean war. Germany and Italy in the Atlantic and Japan in the Pacific

 Fireside chat: Knew there was no hope of negotiating a peace with Hitler  “No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it”  He knew that if Britain fell, the axis powers would be left unchallenged to conquer the world  “All of us in all the Americas would be living at the point of a gun.”

 Britain out of cash so FDR came up with Lend-Lease Plan  Under this plan, FDR could lend or lease arms and supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States”

 Hitler ignores peace with USSR on June 22, invades  Predicts will only take 6 weeks  Soviets had great resistance  When overrun they used a “scorched earth policy”  Destroy everything that might be of use to the invaders

 6 weeks turned into 6 months and Russian winter becomes key… why?  Why would some Americans not want to do the lend-lease program with the USSR?  “If Hitler invaded Hell, the British would be prepared to work with the devil himself” -Winston Churchill

 But why did Japan really attack Pearl Harbor?