2.  Origins?  George Washington  Monroe Doctrine  Failure to join the League of Nations

3.  FDR found a way around the Neutrality Acts to provide aid, including warships to Great Britain  He convinced Congress to sign the Lend- Lease which allowed the US to sell or lend war materials:  “to any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States!”  FDR said the US would become the Arsenal of Democracy

4.  US bans sale items to Japan that include war materials: iron, steel and oil  Extreme militarists gaining power in Japan  Japan wanted lands in Asia and Pacific  US interfering in plans

5.  December 7, 1941 Japanese War planes attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii  FDR called it a date that would “live in infamy”!  Attack fueled nationalism and patriotism  Congress declared war on Japan the day after the attack

8.  Europe:  1939 Germany Invades Poland – Blitzkrieg  1940 Most of Europe falls to the Nazis - France & Battle of Britain  June 6, 1944 D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy, France across English Channel  December 1944 – Battle of Bulge – last Nazi offensive  April 1945 US and USSR forces meet at Elbe River and Hitler kills himself  May 8 th 1945 V-E Day

9.  Asia  1941-1942 Japan seizes most of SE Asia and is on move towards Australia  US begins Island hopping campaign  1942 Battle of Midway – US gains supremacy in Pacific  1944-1945 bitter battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa  August 6, 1945 Truman agrees to use Atomic bomb on Hiroshima  August 9, 1945 US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki  August 14, 1945 Hirohito announces Japanese defeat to people

10.  Atlantic Charter Meeting 1941 – FDR & Churchill meet over ensuring lasting peace  Yalta 1945 Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin outlined division of postwar Germany and planned for trials of war criminals - Nuremberg

11.  Potsdam 1945 – Truman and other Allied leaders warned Japan to surrender to prevent utter destruction…..