24:4 america moves toward war. cash and carry fdr amends neutrality acts 1939 isolationism? “all...

24:4 America Moves Toward War

Cash and Carry

• FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939• Isolationism?• “all aid short of war”

Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers

GermanyItalyJapan

Mobilization in the U.S.

• Defense spending• First peacetime military draft– Selective Training and Service Act

1940 Election3rd Term

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”

German Wolf Packs

• U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments• U.S. attack in self defense• Sonar, radar helped

Atlantic Charter• Churchill wants

military support!• Gets Declaration

of war aims– Collective

security– Disarmament– Self

determination– Economic

cooperation– Freedom of the

seas

Wilson’s 14 pointsTold ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• No secret treaties• Freedom of the

seas• Free trade• Demilitarization• Self determination• League of nations

Allies

• 26 nations: militarily and economically• U.S.• Great Britain • France?????• USSR

1941 Undeclared Naval WarU.S. v. Germany

• “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him”

• Armed merchant ships• Shoot U-boats on sight

Hideki Tojo&

Emperer Hirohito

• Japanese expansion in Asia• U.S. embargo

• Oil

Pearl HarborDecember 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

USS Arizona Memorial

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”