1. Chapter 24
Section 2

2. What did the Lend-Lease Act allow?
Permitted nations to by U.S. armaments as long as they paid cash and carried the goods away on their own ships.

3. Who were the Axis powers?

4. What did their alliance mean for the United States?
If the U.S. declared war on any one of the Axis powers, it would have to fight a two oceans war with all parts of the alliance

5. Germany invades U.S.S.R.

6. What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
Allowed the president to lend or lease arms and supplies to “any country” whose defense was vital to the U.S.

7. Congress extends the draft

8. What pledges were contained in the Atlantic Charter?
Britain and the U.S. would not seek territorial expansion
They would not pursue territorial changes without the consent of inhabitants
They would respect peoples right to choose their own form of govt.
They would promote free trade
They would encourage international cooperation
They would build a secure peace based on freedom of want and fear
They would work for disarmament of aggressors
They would establish a “permanent system of general security”

9. Who were the Allies?
(Just to name a few)
An alliance of 26 nations that had joined together to fight the Axis powers

10. What did U.S. do to protest Japan’s actions in Asia?
Punished Japan with a trade embargo, especially on items it needed to run its war machine

11. Hideki Tojo becomes Japan’s Prime Minister
Emperor Hirohito

12. What did the attack do to the U.S. Pacific fleet?
Pearl Harbor Raid-Video
FDR response - Video

13. Why did Germany and Italy declare war on the United States?
They had signed a mutual defense treaty with Japan in which they agreed to come to each others’ aid in the event of an attack