24:4 America Moves Toward War

Cash and Carry FDR amends Neutrality acts 1939 Isolationism? “all aid short of war”

Tripartite Pact/Axis Powers Germany Italy Japan Berlin

Mobilization in the U.S. Defense spending FDR signing the Selective Service Act Defense spending First peacetime military draft Selective Training and Service Act

1940 Election 3rd Term Wendell Wilkie

1941 Lend Lease Plan Great Arsenal of Democracy $50 billion: GB, FR, USSR, China Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union?? “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”

German Wolf Packs U-boats attack Lend Lease shipments U.S. attack in self defense Sonar, radar helped

Atlantic Charter Churchill wants military support! Gets Declaration of war aims Collective security Disarmament Self determination Economic cooperation Freedom of the seas USS Augusta

Wilson’s 14 points Told ya so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No secret treaties Freedom of the seas Free trade Demilitarization Self determination League of nations

Allies 26 nations: militarily and economically U.S. Great Britain France????? USSR

1941 Undeclared Naval War U.S. v. Germany Germans loading a torpedo onto a u-boat “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you crush him” Armed merchant ships Shoot U-boats on sight

Hideki Tojo & Emperer Hirohito Japanese expansion in Asia U.S. embargo Oil

Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 “A day that will live in infamy” Largest U.S. naval base in Pacific 2 waves : 7:55 am, 8:55 am 2,403 lives, 1,178 wounded, 21 ships damaged, 300 airplanes destroyed

USS VA

USS Shaw

USS Arizona Memorial

America Enters WWII U.S. declares war on Japan Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. Isolationists: “The only thing now to do is to lick the hell out of them” FDR signing the declartion of war