1. Bellwork 
On the same sheet of paper you answered bellwork on yesterday, answer the following question:
Of the totalitarian leaders we learned about yesterday, which one did you think was the most interesting and why? (Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco) 

2. Why did we join other than just Pearl Harbor
US entry into WW2 
Why did we join other than just Pearl Harbor 

3. Today's Standard 
US. 58 – Explain the reasons for American entry into WW2, including the attack on Pearl Harbor 

4. Today's Objectives – write it down
Students will be able to explain why America decided to join WW2

5. What is going on in Europe?
Hitler's plan to gain more lebensraum started with Austria and Czechoslovakia – he said that there were German speaking people in those areas and that they needed to be a part of the German empire 
Austria was his first target, and the Germans marched in unopposed – the rest of the world did nothing
He then turned to Czechoslovakia – GB and France originally said that they would help protect the Czechs, but in order to remain out of war, the French were convinced by Hitler to just let him take Czechoslovakia – appeasement (Churchill was not happy)
Hitler was not done (as Churchill in GB had warned) and Poland became the next target – GB and France promised military aid to Poland

6. What is going on in Europe?
Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler – the Soviets and Nazis agreed to never attack one another 
German Luftwaffe (air force) bombed Poland, and sent in tanks = blitzkrieg (lightning warfare) - within 3 weeks, Germany had taken most of Poland
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany = WW2 began 

7. What about France?
After WW1, France built a series of fortifications along their border with Germany = Maginot Line...but it was ineffective
Germany invaded, and a little while later, Italy invaded in the South on the side of the Germans – Hitler made it to Paris in June of 1940 – France was split into two parts – the north was occupied by the Germans and the south had a Nazi-controlled puppet government = Vichy France 
Germany began to bomb Britain as well...

8. Insert America 
1939 – Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass the "cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy US arms as long as they paid cash and transported them on their own ships – he hoped this would help GB and France defeat Hitler
BUT, by 1940, France had fallen and Britain was being bombed 
Axis powers = Germany, Italy, Japan = nightmare for America if they declared war on any of them because it would mean a two-ocean war (Atlantic & Pacific)
Roosevelt convinced the Congress to increase spending on national defense and to pass the nation's first peacetime military draft (The Selective Training and Service Act) 

9. Roosevelt for President
Roosevelt decided to break the tradition of a two term presidency by running for a third term
His opponent = Wendell Willkie 
Both candidates promised to keep the nation out of war
Because there was little difference between the two candidates, most Americans simply chose to vote for the one they were more familiar with – FDR was reelected 

10. Arsenal of Democracy 
Roosevelt pleaded with Americans to support his efforts to try to defeat the Axis threat; he said that the US had the responsibility to maintain its role as the "great arsenal of democracy"
Lend-Lease Act (1941) - US would lend arms and other war supplies – with Britain and the Soviet Union 
June 1941 – Germany had broken its pact with the Soviets and had attacked Russia, pulling them into WW2 on the side of the Allies 

11. FDR plans for war 
FDR saw US entry into WW2 as inevitable – he extended the draft to keep building up the military 
After German submarines fired on two of our ships, FDR ordered that the Navy shoot German U-boats on sight 
US began arming their merchant ships 

12. What is Japan doing...?
July 1937 – Hideki Tojo (military leader) launched the invasion of China, and then they began to push southward in July of 1941 by taking French military bases in Indochina
The US protested by cutting off trade with Japan – Japan freaked out because they needed oil to continue their war effort – Japanese military leaders said that Japan must either convince US to end the trade ban or seize the oil fields in the Dutch East Indies (which would mean war) 
Tojo met with Emperor Hirohito and told him that Japan would attempt to maintain peace with America – but then he ordered an attack on the US
US had broken Japan's secret codes – they knew they were going to attack but not where 

13. Attack on Pearl Harbor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSugvmiK4To
orig.cnn/video/playlists/pearl-harbor/

14. Attack on Pearl harbor 
December 7, 1941 – Japanese began their bombing of Pearl Harbor, the largest US naval base in the Pacific – lasted 1 ½ hours 
2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 were wounded
Sunk 21 ships and over 300 aircraft were severely damaged 
Roosevelt addressed Congress the next day – Congress quickly approved Roosevelt's request for a declaration of war against Japan
3 days later, Italy and Germany declared war on the US 

15. FDR's Address to Congress - Document Analysis

16. Exit Ticket
Explain the answers you got for your document analysis to your neighbors – make sure you have similar answers 
Answer the following question on the back of your document analysis:
Explain in your own words the reasoning behind America's decision to join WW2.