Chapter 13 4 America Enters the War Pgs

Chapter 13. 4 America Enters the War Pgs. 474 - 479

FDR Supports England �Destroyers-for-Bases Deal �Cash & carry for arms as well �What problems exist for Britain under this new law? �German u-boats have been pounding the fleet � Britain is in need of destroyers � These are used for convoys �Out of cash, Britain gets 50 destroyers, we get rights to military bases �Doesn’t this violate the law? �It wasn’t a “purchase”, it was a trade

Cont. �The Isolationist Debate �The pendulum of public opinion �The America First Committee � Fiercely isolationist �Other groups are more for supporting the Allies and staying out of the fighting �Oh, by the way, Roosevelt gets a 3 rd term as president

Edging Towards War �The Lend-Lease Act �Have the weapons today, return them tomorrow �This applied to any country “vital” to our defense � Of course we mean Britain � The Great Arsenal of Democracy �June of 1941 Hitler attacks the USSR � They get lend-lease aid as well

Cont. �The Hemispheric Defense Zone �The Brits are losing too many ship to protect the convoys �Roosevelt orders the navy to maintain the neutrality of the western hemisphere �The Atlantic Charter �Churchill & Roosevelt met to discuss the post war world �Take a look at pg. 477 �Subs & destroyers mean trouble

Japan Attacks �America Embargos Japan �Britain cannot protect its Asian Empire �Strategic materials ban pushed Japan to the Axis �Continued Japanese aggression freezes assets �Japan didn’t want a war with the US � They wanted to go further into the South Pacific � The Philippines were in the way � The German strategy to beat France worked, why not a similar one for Japan against the US?

Cont. �Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor �On the Morning of December 7 th, 1941… � 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 188 planes and 2, 403 men lost � Congress Declared War on Japan � Movie Clip �Germany Declares War �Hitler didn’t have to do this �Underestimated us, overestimated Japan �A word from Admiral Yamamoto