1. Legislation to Fight the War Pearl Harbor
America Responds
Legislation to Fight the War
Pearl Harbor

2. Hitler Conquers Europe in Eight Steps

3. Foreign Policy During WWII
“This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war… I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.”
President Roosevelt during one of his Fireside Chats

4. The Neutrality Acts Cash-and-Carry Policy Lend-Lease Program
America Responds
The Neutrality Acts Cash-and-Carry Policy Lend-Lease Program

5. The Neutrality Acts
1935
Designed to prevent the United States from being dragged into a possible European war as a result of the actions of Nazi Germany. Established a mandatory arms embargo against both victim AND aggressor

6. Cash-and-Carry Policy
1937
Added to the Neutrality Act of 1935 as the war became more evident.
Belligerents could purchase only non-military goods from the United States, but had to pay cash and carry the goods on their own vessels after purchase.

7. An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States
Lend-Lease Act
1941
An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States
Amended the Neutrality Act by allowing the United States to sell arms to allied nations BUT also allowed to lend or lease armaments to any nation
“vital to the defense of the United States”
Britain
USSR

8. What caused the Empire of Japan to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
Question.

9. Japanese-American Relations
Japan invaded Manchuria (in 1931) and mainland China after (Sino-Japanese War in 1937). Invaded French Indochina in 1940.
Three Conditions that Bothered America:
Alliance with Italy and Germany
A unified Asia under Hirohito
Refusal to leave China
How did the US respond?
Trade embargo on oil.

10. Pearl Harbor
“A date which will live in infamy…”
December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attacks - Nat Geo Pearl Harbor ( )

11. Was the attack on Pearl Harbor a failure?
Question

12. Ships Sunk, Rebuilt, Slightly Damaged, or Not Damaged at all
Pearl Harbor
Ships Sunk, Rebuilt, Slightly Damaged, or Not Damaged at all
Ships Sunk &
Completely Lost
USS Nevada USS West Virginia USS California USS Pennsylvania USS Tennessee USS Maryland USS New Orleans USS San Francisco USS Raleigh USS Detroit USS Phoenix 70+ More ships NOT including submarines, large supplies of oil on the island, planes, and NO aircraft carriers.
USS Arizona USS Oklahoma USS Utah sailors & soldiers dead sailors & soldiers wounded

13. “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy –
the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked
by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”