1. U.S. Involvement

2. Moving Towards Involvement 1939: “Cash and Carry” policy. Allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms. 1. Pay Cash 2. Provide Transport Aid Great Britain

3. Alliance 1940: Germany, Italy, and Japan = Axis Powers Attempt to keep the U.S. out of the war

4. Building Defenses Selective Service Act: men between ages 21-35 register for military service 1 million were drafted

5. FDR 1940: President Roosevelt runs for third term against Wendell Willkie. Very little difference between the candidates

6. Involvement FDR believed that the U.S. must help Great Britain to ensure the safety of America. Prevent the rise of the Axis Powers

7. Involvement :1941-Lend-Lease Act lend arms and supplies to countries who defense was vital to the U.S. Isolationist angered

8. Hitler’s Mistake 1941: Hitler broke the nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union U.S. sends supplies to Soviet Union

9. Hitler deploys U-Boats to patrol the North Atlantic FDR grants permission to engage submarines in self defense

10. Atlantic Charter FDR and Churchill formulate war aims for post World War II Disarmament, self determination, freedom of the seas Become the basis for the United Nations

11. Japanese leader Hideki Tojo seizes French, Dutch, and British colonies in Asia 1941: Take over Indochina U.S. places embargo on oil

12. Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 Surprise attack on U.S. naval base by Japanese bombers Over 2,000 Americans died and 21 ships destroyed

13. U.S. Enters World War II “A day that will live in infamy” Dec. 8, 1941 = FDR requests for a declaration of war against Japan. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.