1. America Enters the War

2. Supporting England Neutrality Act of 1939 Destroyers for Bases - 1940
Cash and Carry – warring nations could purchase weapons from the United States if they paid cash and carried them on their own ships.
Destroyers for Bases
United States traded 50 World War I destroyers for key naval bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the Caribbean with Great Britain

3. Isolationism?
Most Americans sympathized with Great Britain but did not want to go to war.
“all aid short of war”
America First Campaign
Group firmly opposed to any American intervention or aid to the Allies
What are the benefits of remaining isolated? What are the dangers?

4. Neutrality No More Lend-Lease Act of 1940 Hemispheric Defense Zone
U.S. would be able to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the United States”
Hemispheric Defense Zone
Navy was ordered to patrol the western Atlantic Ocean which he considered neutral
Atlantic Charter – 1941
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met to discuss and commit to a world of democracy, non-aggression, free-trade, and freedom of the seas after the war.

6. Why Did Japan Attack? Embargo
Put economic pressure on Japan to discourage them from attacking British ships
Restricted the sale of “strategic materials” – fuel and scrap metal
Japan formed alliance with Germany and Italy
U.S. provided lend-lease aid to China for protection
Japan attacked China and U.S. froze all Japanese assets
U.S. gave Japan an ultimatum

7. December 7, 1941
Although peace negotiations were under way, Japan planned to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor and seize the Philippines
Surprise attack sank 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 4 destroyers, and 6 other vessels.
188 airplanes were destroyed
2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 injured

8. Movie Clip

9. Declaration of War
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a day which will live in infamy…”

10. America at War
December 8, 1941 the United States declared war on Japan
December 11, 1941 both Germany and Italy declared war on the United States due to their alliance with Japan