1. Japan Awakens a Sleeping Giant
America at War
Japan Awakens a Sleeping Giant

2. 1941 Lend Lease Act
•The Senate passed the $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-Lease bill on October 23, 1941, bringing the United States one step closer to direct involvement in World War II.
•Gave Roosevelt unlimited authority to give ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe.
•Intended for Great Britain, but soon expanded to include China and the Soviet Union. By the end of the war, United States gave $49,100,000,000 in in aid to over 40 nations.
•Creation of Axis alliance with threat of fascism and interference with American shipping brings US close to war.

3. German Sea Attacks
• 5/21/1941 Wed. United States freighter ROBIN MOOR, en route to South Africa, is sunk in South Atlantic by German submarine.
• 5/27/1941 German battleship BISMARCK is sunk by British Navy in North Atlantic.
•09/ United States merchant ship STEEL SEAFARER is sunk by German air attack in Gulf of Suez.
• In retaliation for German Sea attacks, FDR ord3ers merchant ships to be armed shoot at German subs.

4. Iceland/Greenland
• Agreement to help protect Iceland gives US ports and airstrips which provides better convoy support.
• US freezes and German and Italian assets in US to prevent there liquidation.
•US has full embargo with Japan.

5. War Expands
• June 1941 Hitler launches his attack of Russia in violation of the 1939 Non-aggression Pact
• Hitler want Russian grain and access to Middle East oil reserves.
• The total estimated human loss of life caused by World War II was roughly 72 million people.

6. THE FOUR FREEDOMS FDR, January 6, 1941
• At a time when Western Europe lay under Nazi domination, Roosevelt presented a vision in which the American ideals of individual liberties were extended throughout the world.
• Alerting Congress and the nation to the necessity of war, Roosevelt articulated the ideological aims of the conflict. Eloquently, he appealed to Americans` most profound beliefs about freedom.
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear

7. US Continues to Avoid War
• Lend Lease Act now applies to Soviet Union as well
• Churchill and FDR find Nazism a greater threat than communism
• Atlantic Charter Meeting Aug US GB create a secret alliance, but FDR does not have political support to join war.
• Agreement signifies Anglo/American solidarity
• Churchill wants US to join the war, FDR-not unless invaded.

8. FDR & Churchill Outline Basic Rights
The self-determination of all people
GB & US will not seek territorial gains
Disarmament of aggressors - even today Germany not allowed to militarize.
4. Free trade for all nations and a world free from fear. GB will loose all imperialism which FDR and Churchill believed was a major cause of war.

9. US at War
• US freezes Japan assets after invasion of Manchuria in 1932.
• Japan continually attempts to negotiate trade with US, last meeting 1 pm Dec. 7th, 1941
• Dec. 7th, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Dec. 8th, 1941 declare war on Japan
• Dec. 11th, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war US as part of alliance
• Today 40% of our budget goes to defense; can we afford this?