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Page 1: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

So what is So what is the U.S. the U.S.

doing during doing during THE WAR?THE WAR?

Page 2: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :
Page 3: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :
Page 4: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

How could FDR get elected to 2nd term?

US passed the

Neutrality Acts:

Page 5: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

Prohibited sale of American weapons

to any country at war

Prevented citizens from riding on ships belonging

to any country at war

Page 6: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

When WWII broke out in Asia (’37) &

Europe (’39), Americans were divided about it

When WWII broke out in Asia (’37) &

Europe (’39), Americans were divided about it

Page 7: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

Interventionism: Policy of interfering in

affairs of another nation

Isolationism: Avoid conflicts & alliances with other nations

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Most Americans were Isolationists when the

war broke out in Europe…… This would

change

Page 9: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

FDR arranges deal with GBGB gets 50 US WWI destroyers

US gets military

bases for 99 years

1940

Page 10: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

FDR introduces 1st peacetime draft in US

history

All men 21-35 were forced

to apply

Page 11: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

“Our boys are not

going to besent into any foreign wars”

We will become an arsenal of

democracy

FDR

Page 12: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

March ‘41Pres. can lend

or lease military

supplies to any nation deemed

vital to US defense

Breaks Neutrality

Acts

Page 13: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

Fire Hose Analogy

Page 14: So what is the U.S. doing during THE WAR?. How could FDR get elected to 2 nd term? US passed the Neutrality Acts :

US Navy ships to protect Lend-Lease

shipments from German “Wolf

packs”

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Many US ships were

sunk

FDR orders subs sunk on

sight

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June 22, ‘41: Hitler attacks USSRAKA:

Operation Barbarossa

Violates?

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1. Now a 2 front war

2. USSR is now an ally!

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FDR extends Lend-Lease aid to USSR!

Public objection

WHY?

We’re helping

Communists!

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FDR & Churchill talk about post-war Idea of the United

Nations is shared: An Int’l org. to protect security of all nations