1. Section 4
America Enters the War

2. FDR Supports England Neutrality Act of 1939
FDR declares U.S. neutrality 2 days after Britain & France declared war on Germany
Congress allows “cash & carry” for weapons

3. FDR Supports England (cont.)
Destroyers for Bases:
Traded British bases for 50 old U.S. destroyers

4. Isolationist Debate America First Committee: Isolationist organization
Election of 1940: FDR elected for a THIRD TERM

5. Edging Towards War Lend-Lease Act (1941)
U.S. will lend or lease weapons to countries “vital to the defense of the United States.
FDR wanted America to be a “great arsenal of democracy”

6. Edging Towards War (cont.)
Hemispheric Defense Zone
FDR declared the Western half of the Atlantic part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral
He ordered the U.S. navy to patrol and report German sub activity to the British

7. Edging Towards War (cont.)
Atlantic Charter (Aug. 1941)
Meeting between FDR and Winston Churchill
Agreed to post-war world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas

8. Japan Attacks the United States
America Embargoes Japan
Export Control Act (July 1940)
Restricted the sale of strategic materials to other countries
Japan immediately joins Germany & Italy

9. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Sent a “peace envoy” November 5, 1941
Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

10. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)

11. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)
Japanese Losses: 29 planes

12. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)
U.S. Losses:
188 Planes
21 ships sunk or damaged
1,178 injured
2,403 killed

13. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)

14. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)

15. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)

16. Japan Attacks the United States (cont.)
December 8, 1941 FDR asks Congress for a declaration of war