Do Now: Tuesday 4/30/13

• “A Date That Will Live in Infamy”• Read FDR’s famous speech & answer the

question– “What impact do you predict the events described

in the speech will have on the war?”

– FDR Speech

Do Now: Wednesday 5/1/13

•Pick up your posters! –Your group will be presenting them!

•Pick up permission slip for Saving Private Ryan

American Involvement

• 1930: US declares neutrality• 1941: FDR persuades congress to pass Lend-

Lease Act– allowed to sell or lend war materials to “any

country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the US”

• US “the arsenal of democracy”• August 1941: Atlantic Charter– Churchill & FDR met on a ship in the Atlantic

• Goal: final destruction of Nazi tyranny

US vs. JAPAN

• 1939 Japan expanded to grab European resources & possessions in Southeast Asia

• US banned sale of war materials to Japan – stop Japanese aggression

• Japan saw this as an attempt to interfere in their sphere of influence

• Talks between US & Japan about growing tensions

• General Tojo Hideki– extreme militarist with goals to

expand empire

Pearl Harbor

• General Tojo ordered a surprise attack• December 7, 1941 • Japanese airplanes bombed the American fleet at

Pearl Harbor in Hawaii• About 2,400 lives were lost• “a date which will live in infamy”• FDR asked congress to declare war on Japan• December 8, 1941

• December 11, 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on USA as Japan’s allies

Damage at Pearl HarborU.S. ships sunk or damaged 19

U.S. aircraft destroyed 188

Americans killed 2,348

American injured 1,109

Pearl Harbor

• pearl harbor

• FDR speech

• pearl harbor movie

Exit Ticket

• In your opinion. Should the US have been involved in WWII prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor? WHY or WHY NOT?