1. 24.4 America Moves Toward War Objectives: 1. Describe the U.S. response to the outbreak of war. 2.show how Roosevelt assisted the allies without declaring war. 3. summarize the events that brought the u.s. into war

2. Neutrality Erodes…  Neutrality Act of 1939 allows “cash-and- carry”  1940 – Japan, Germany, and Italy announce alliance of Axis Powers  Why do they do this? Why is this a bad thing for the U.S.?  $37 billion approved for military build-up  Summer of 1940 – France falls and Britain under siege  9/2/1940 - US gives 50 destroyers for naval bases in a swap with UK  9/6/1940 – US Conscription law approved  What did this do?

3. FDR v. Wendell Wilkie (1940) http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/FDR.jpg http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/images/fdrl_wilkie.jpg

4. A Slumbering Giant Stirs…  3/1941 – Lend-Lease Act passed  6/1941 –Germany attacks “friend” USSR,  FDR extends Lend-Lease to USSR  Mid-1941 - US freezes Japanese Assets  7/1941 – US Navy accompanies convoys to UK  8/1941 – Atlantic Charter (US, UK -later USSR) expresses the common purpose for the Allies against the Axis.

5. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1926-1950/war/at_charter.htm Atlantic Charter Secret Alliance between US and UK, and later the USSR, which becomes the basis for the United Nations

6. First Blood  Fall 1941 – German U-boats sink 2 US destroyers and several merchant ships  US arms its merchant ships  Fall 1941 – US cuts off oil to Japan after Japan invades French Indochina  11/1941 - Hideki Tojo prepares Japan for war with US  US knows Japan will strike, but not where  12/7/1941 – Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor  12/11/1941 – Italy and Germany declare war on US WHY DID THE U.S. WAIT TO BE ATTACKED???

7. Expansion of the Japanese Empire

8. Site: Pearl Harbor Remembered

9. TERMS  Axis Powers  Lend-Lease Act  Atlantic Charter  Allies  Hideki Tojo  Objectives: 1. Describe the U.S. response to the outbreak of war. 2.show how Roosevelt assisted the allies without declaring war. 3. summarize the events that brought the u.s. into war