 Take out your CRQ #26 Finish it NOW.  Take out a piece of lined paper for note page 27  M/C-HW Let’s check 5/13 Learning Target- I can explain the steps that led to US involvement into World War II.

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

 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- sound familiar?

 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

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

 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

 Asia  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  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

 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

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