2. Four Freedoms Speech
Britain was fighting for democracy and FDR believed the U.S. should help them- tried to get isolationists to support the British
“Four Freedoms” both British and U.S. Believed in
Speech
Worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear

4. Lend-Lease Act
Britain had run out of funds to wage war against Germany
Neutrality Acts created a “cash and carry system”
Lend-Lease Act- allowed U.S. to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the U.S.”
-allowed FDR to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to return or pay rent for them after the war

5. Hitler Violates Nazi- Soviet Pact
June Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
-U.S. weapons began to also go to the Soviets effort

6. Atlantic Charter August 1941-
FDR and Churchill agree to a post-war world of nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement and freedom of the seas
By September 15 other nations signed the charter

7. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

8. Sides of War as of 1941 The Allies The Axis Neutral Occupied WAR WAR
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