2.  Neutrality Act of 1939  Cash and Carry – warring nations could purchase weapons from the United States if they paid cash and carried them on their own ships.  Destroyers for Bases - 1940  United States traded 50 World War I destroyers for key naval bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the Caribbean with Great Britain

3.  Most Americans sympathized with Great Britain but did not want to go to war.  “all aid short of war”  America First Campaign  Group firmly opposed to any American intervention or aid to the Allies  What are the benefits of remaining isolated? What are the dangers?

4.  Lend-Lease Act of 1940  U.S. would be able to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the United States”  Hemispheric Defense Zone  Navy was ordered to patrol the western Atlantic Ocean which he considered neutral  Atlantic Charter – 1941  Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met to discuss and commit to a world of democracy, non-aggression, free-trade, and freedom of the seas after the war.

6.  Embargo  Put economic pressure on Japan to discourage them from attacking British ships  Restricted the sale of “strategic materials” – fuel and scrap metal  Japan formed alliance with Germany and Italy  U.S. provided lend-lease aid to China for protection  Japan attacked China and U.S. froze all Japanese assets  U.S. gave Japan an ultimatum

7.  Although peace negotiations were under way, Japan planned to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor and seize the Philippines  Surprise attack sank 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 4 destroyers, and 6 other vessels.  188 airplanes were destroyed  2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 injured

8. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a day which will live in infamy…”

9.  December 8, 1941 the United States declared war on Japan  December 11, 1941 both Germany and Italy declared war on the United States due to their alliance with Japan