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24:4 America Moves Toward War
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Cash and Carry FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939 Isolationism?
“all aid short of war”
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Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers
Germany Italy Japan Berlin
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Mobilization in the U.S. Defense spending
FDR signing the Selective Service Act Defense spending First peacetime military draft Selective Training and Service Act
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1940 Election 3rd Term Wendell Wilkie
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1941 Lend Lease Plan Great Arsenal of Democracy
$50 billion: GB, FR, USSR, China Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union?? “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”
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German Wolf Packs U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments
U.S. attack in self defense Sonar, radar helped
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Atlantic Charter Churchill wants military support!
Gets Declaration of war aims Collective security Disarmament Self determination Economic cooperation Freedom of the seas USS Augusta
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Wilson’s 14 points Told ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No secret treaties Freedom of the seas Free trade Demilitarization Self determination League of nations
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Allies 26 nations: militarily and economically U.S. Great Britain
France????? USSR
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1941 Undeclared Naval War U.S. v. Germany
Germans loading a torpedo onto a u-boat “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him” Armed merchant ships Shoot U-boats on sight
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Hideki Tojo & Emperer Hirohito
Japanese expansion in Asia U.S. embargo Oil
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Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 “A day that will live in infamy”
Largest U.S. naval base in Pacific 2 waves : 7:55 am, 8:55 am 2,403 lives, 1,178 wounded, 21 ships damaged, 300 airplanes destroyed
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USS VA
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USS Shaw
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USS Arizona Memorial
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America Enters WWII U.S. declares war on Japan
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. Isolationists: “The only thing now to do is to lick the hell out of them” FDR signing the declartion of war
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