Mobilizing for Defense

Aka – Getting Ready to Fight Hitler and Japan

Cash & Carry (1939)

• Write one sentence that summarizes this concept._________________________.

• How did FDR “sell” this idea to those he wanted to stay neutral?

• Tripartite Pact = Axis Powers:a.

b.

c.

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• 16 mil men

FDR breaks precedent of Washington and in 1940 runs for a 3rd term.

Lend/___________ (3/1941)

• Would you give a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire?

• Cash & Carry didn’ t work b/c Br out of $

US Support for Stalin!• “If Hitler invaded Hell, the British would be prepared to work

with the devil himself!” Winston Churchill• So, Soviets get benefits of Lend/Lease

Hitler’s “Wolfpack” to Combat L/L

• 40 U-boats looking to sink ships carrying supplies to Allies

Atlantic Charter

• 1st time “united Nations” used as a terms

• Charter promised collective security, self-determination, and freedom of seas

• FDR promised Churchill he’d do everything to “force an incident” (does that include ignoring warnings of Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor

• 12/6/1947 – FDR receives decoded message that Japan rejects all peace proposals b/c US had cut off their oil.

• 12/7/1941 – “a day that will live in infamy”

• Attack on Pearl Harbor