2. America Moves Toward War What causes the US to enter WWII?

3. American Neutrality? ● Cash-and-Carry, 1939: allowed warring nations to buy U.S. weapons as long as they paid cash for them & transported the weapons themselves ● Selective Training & Service Act, 1940 (Burke-Wadsworth): U.S.’ 1 st peacetime draft, 16 mill. registered, 1 mill. drafted ● Lend-Lease Act (1941): lend or lease weapons & supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.” ● Atlantic Charter (1941): FDR & Churchill meet to discuss post-war Europe ● FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech (1941): 1. Freedom of Speech 2. Freedom of worship 3. Freedom from want 4. Freedom from fear

4. Japan attacks the US US upset at Japanese expansion, wants Asia open to free trade 1940-1941: To support China, US stops sending supplies to Japan 12/7/1941: Tojo orders attack on US, Japanese warplanes bomb US Naval ships located at Pearl Harbor, Hawai‘i Roosevelt asks for a declaration of war on Japan, calling the event “A date which will live in infamy” Another World War Jan 1942: Japan attacks US in Guam, Wake Island, Philippines FDR asks Gen. MacArthur to leave Philippines to take over Pacific War MacArthur tells Filipinos “I Shall Return” US joins the Allied Powers Germany declares war on US