World War II

MAST High SchoolUS History – Period 4

Ms. Richardson

United States: World War I Statistics

• # of causalities:– approximately 323,018

• Cost of war:– Approximately $32 billion

The wars end bought widespread disillusionment in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. The media blamed bankers & munitions (weapons) companies for the war.

Foreign Policy• a policy pursued by a nation in its

dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.

-Examples: The Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Neutrality Acts, Lead Lease Act, Munich Pact, Good Neighbor policy, Truman Doctrine, Big Stick diplomacy, Marshall Plan

Isolationism a policy of

remaining apart from the political affairs and interest of other countries.

Internationalisma political principle which supports a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and peoples.

Allies Powers

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• France

Axis Powers

• Germany• Japan • Italy

Territory Controlled by the Axis Powers (1941)

Neutrality Acts Congress enacted the Neutrality Acts, as follows:

• No sale or shipment of arms to belligerents • No loans or credits to belligerents• No travel by U.S. citizens on belligerents' ships

– Neutrality Acts 1939• Purchase of nonmilitary goods by belligerents to be paid in

cash and transported in their own ships (cash-and-carry)

• Purpose: to limit U.S. involvement in future wars

Lend-Lease Act 1941• Ended U.S. neutrality! • The U.S. committed huge

economic resources to fighting [against] Germany.–Becomes “arsenal of

democracy”