1. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR 24-2

2. HISTORY IS MADE  In 1940, FDR pushed for a third term.  FDR broke the example by George Washington.  He won the office by his slogan, “Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.  He won reelection very easily

3. LEND-LEASE ACT  Roosevelt favored the Allies  Before campaign, Winston Churchill had asked Roosevelt for military aid, but selling supplies to Britain would break the Neutrality Acts.  Roosevelt came to an agreement with Congress- would sell to Britain but they had to pay in cash for the goods.  By end of 1940, Britain was out of money in the treasury.

4. LEND-LEASE ACT CON.  FDR feared that Britain would fall to the Nazis, so he asked Congress to pass the law that he named Lend-Lease.  It allowed the United States to lend supplies to any nation fighting against the Nazis.  Isolationist opposed the plan, stating that it would draw U.S. into the war.  Although, most Americans favored the plan.  Lend-Lease convoys started moving across the Atlantic soon. Then, to China and Soviet Union.  Because of the Lend-Lease, the US became known as “The great arsenal of democracy.”

5. BUILD OF MILITARY  US took other precautions to the possibility of war entry.  Congress approved of the spread of the army and navy.  September 1940- passed law that enabled the first peacetime draft.  FDR ordered the Army Air Corps to establish a African American unit under the leader of a black officer.  A flight training program was set up at Alabama Tuskegee Army Air Field  Later, they would make an amazing combat record

6. THE ATLANTIC CHARTER  In August, 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt made the Atlantic Charter.  It stated the major goals for the postwar world.  No territorial gain & wanted the people to choose the government they want.  Also, they wanted to make a new international group that would be better than the League of Nations, which failed.

7. THE U.S. IS IN THE WAR.  It was Asia that drew the United States into the war, not Europe.  Japan invaded French Indochina, this included Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.  Roosevelt restricted exports of iron and steel to them. And the sell of oil.  Japan then didn’t have enough fuel for their navy, so their leaders decided on war against the U.S.  They started plans to attack.

8. PEARL HARBOR  “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” 1.Hawaiian island of Oahu. 2.Naval, air and ground forces at Pearl Harbor 3. Destroyed almost half of the 400 aircrafts. 4. Damaged 8 battleships 5. 2 of them were beyond repair. Almost 2,400 Americans died.

9. A GLOBAL CONFLICT  WWII was a greater global conflict than WWI or any other war. I.Germany II.Italy III.Japan IV.6 other countries. a)Britain b)France c)Soviet Union d)United States e)China f)45 other countries

10. EUROPE & THE NAZIS  Early 1942, faced situations on all fronts.  Germany controlled the majority of the Western Europe front.  Britain hadn’t fallen but it was basically powerless against the Nazis.  In the Eastern Europe front, Nazis were deep in the Soviet territory. Which caused the Soviet to lose millions.  Even besides that, in 1942, the Allies’ were still ‘winning’

11. THE SOVIET RESIST  Hitler thought that the Soviet Union would fall quickly to him and his army.  The Germans began to advance towards Moscow, but with the help of the Russian’s harsh winter, the Soviet troops halted the Germans.

12. STALINGRAD  The Germans started another offensive in mid-1942.  Then a major battle took place in and around Stalingrad  The troops fought for many months, but it ended in a very clear Soviet victory.  After the victory, the Soviet troops began to make the Germans retreat off the Russian land.

13. NORTH AFRICAN TIDE TURNS  In North Africa, Erwin Rommel one of Germany’s most respective general won a series of fast victories in North Africa.  In October 1942, British forces beat the German at El Alamein, a battle in Egypt.  During which, the British slowly drove Rommel’s Tank Corp westward to Tunisia.  Meanwhile, the first American troops arrived in North Africa.  They were under control of Dwight Eisenhower.  American troops occupied Morocco and Algeria.  Stuck between them, Rommel surrendered in May 1943.

14. JAPAN GOES THROUGH  Japanese troops took control of many countries. 1)Hong Kong 2)Malaya 3)Thailand 4)Burma 5)Guam 6)Wake Island 7)Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) 8)Soloman Island 9)Australia (threatened)

15. THE PHILIPPINES FALL  It was only hours after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese bombed the Philippines, and the group of islands that were controlled by the U.S.  Japan’s strategy was to make most of their airplanes beyond repair.  Luzon, the most valuable island, was invaded.  Douglas MacArthur was the general at the time, and he ordered a Filipino-American force.  As Japan moved in toward Manila, Filipino-American forces moved onto the Bataan peninsula.  FDR then told him to go to Australia and take charge of the U.S. troops down there.

16.  On Bataan and Corregidor, Americans and Filipinos made a heroic defense.  Early in March, they were the only ones fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific.  American and Filipino forces at Bataan surrendered on April 9.  They surrendered at Corregidor in May.

17. BATAAN DEATH MARCH  Here, they captured about 70,000 soldiers.  American and Filipinos prisoners were weak from hunger, but were also forced to walk 65 miles to a prison camp.  10,000 prisoners died of starvation, disease, or violence.  About 15% of the prisoners.

18. CORAL SEA  Only after 2 major battles did the tide begin to turn in the Pacific.  May 1942, the battle of Coral Sea was done in a new kind of warfare.  Planes took of from the aircraft carriers and then attacked the others ships that were far away.  Both of the Americans and Japanese lost many, but the U.S. halted the Japanese forces from invading New Guinea.

19. MIDWAY  Then, in April, wanted to take Midway.  Midway was a major American military base.  4 Japanese carriers  322 aircrafts  Reduced them of highly trained pilots  After this, Japan didn’t rule the Pacific anymore.

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