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2. “When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease…War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.” Quarantine speech, October 5, 1937 After analyzing the quote, what is FDR trying to say?

3. Hitler takes Czechoslovakia Britain + France + Poland alliance Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, 1939 German Blitzkrieg on Poland Soviet Union takes Baltic Nations

4. Main Axis Powers (3) Who? Main Allied Powers (5) Who?

5. 1940 Germany attacks Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg France attacked – Maginot Line

6. How do you think Americans felt about the U.S. intervening in the war? Economically, where does the United States stand? There was a theory saying that big business had conspired to enter WWI to make profit selling weapons. The Nye Committee discovered minimal evidence. Regardless, how could this sway American’s thoughts on the war?

7. Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937) Prevented loans and weapons Neutrality Act of 1939 Added cash-and-carry Lend-Lease Act 1941 Britain runs out of $$$ “lend when thought necessary in the interests of the defense of the US” Germany sends U-Boats, not happy with US

8. U.S. helping allied countries (China) Embargo on supplies to Japan How do you think Japan feels about this? General Hideki Tojo Tried to negotiate for land with U.S. Pearl Harbor December 7 th, 1941 (2,500 killed, 15 ships, 160+ aircrafts destroyed) TURNING POINT FOR U.S.