1. Drill: Cartoon 1941 What do the two beds represent? How do you know?
Read the words in the cartoon, what happened in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s?
Why does the US feel safe?

2. United States Neutrality
How did World War I influence US foreign policy in the 1930s?
Was the US really neutral before Pearl Harbor?

3. Why was the US isolationist?
Atlantic Ocean kept the US Safe from Europe’s problems. The Pacific kept the US safe from Asia’s problems
Focused on solving the Depression (domestic policy)
World War I
Allies never paid debt
Americans died for nothing (we got nothing from the war)

5. World Events Influence US Policy
1935: Neutrality Act of Bans US from trading with countries at war
1932: Japan invades Manchuria
1935: Italy Invades Ethiopia
US Policy
World Actions

7. World Events Influence US Policy
1937: Neutrality Act of Allowed the US to trade non war materials on a cash and carry basis. The buying country would pay cash to the US for the products and would need to ship the products themselves.
1936: Germany remilitarizes
1937: Japan invades China
1938: German Anschluss w/ Austria and Germany takes the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia
US Policy
World Actions

9. World Events Influence US Policy
1939: Neutrality Act of 1939 (Sept. 1939)
US can trade any goods with warring nations- warring nations paid in cash and carried the goods on their own ship
(US could give aid to France, GB, and China)
1940: Sept: Selective Service and Training Act: 1st Peace time draft to build a larger military in the US
1939: Sept. Germany invades Poland .WWII starts. The Allies (Britain and France) declare war on Germany
1940
*April: Germany takes Denmark and Norway
*May: Germany takes Belgium Luxembourg, and Holland
*June: Germany takes France
*July to Oct: Battle of Britain
US Policy
World Actions

12. World Events Influence US Policy
March 1941: Lend Lease Act US could "sell,…, lease, lend,…to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article"
*Aid went to mostly Britain and China
1941:
*Germany invades the Soviet Union. The Soviets join the Allies.
*Dec. 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
US Policy
World Actions

14. Atlantic Charter
August Secret agreement between Churchill and FDR on how the war should end, the basis for the peace agreements, the creation of the United Nations

15. Exit Pass
-Explain how world events caused American to change its foreign policy of neutrality.
-Evaluate if the US was truly neutral prior to Pearl Harbor.
-Use examples and details to support your answer.