1. U.S. History Agenda 2/06/17 Exit Slip #5 Unit 5 grading set up
*Copy agenda down on your notebook. (Phones and earphones should be put away & backpacks should be behind you or on the floor).
Exit Slip #5
Unit 5 grading set up
3) Peal Harbor movie questions

2. Exit Slip #5
How did the U.S. change its stance from isolationism to full involvement in WWII? Include and explain all significant events that led to this change. Sentence Starters: the U.S. change its stance from isolationism to full involvement in WWII because______

3. Unit 5 grade set up

4. U.S. History Agenda 2/02/17 Warm up # 3
*Copy agenda down on your notebook. (Phones and earphones should be put away & backpacks should be behind you or on the floor).
Warm up # 3
Lecture #2 U.S. involvement in WWII
FDR’S four freedoms of speech
Pearl Harbor
Exit Slip # 5

5. Warm Up #3 Do you think U.S. isolationism is a good idea today?
(Think of current international threats, e.g. ISIS, North Korea, Russia)
Sentence Starters:
I think that U.S. isolationism is/ is not a good idea today because_____

6. Lecture #2 U.S. involvement in WWII
FLT: I will be able to analyze how the U.S. got involved in WWII with the events leading up to and including Pearl Harbor.

7. WWII overview
The U.S. holds firmly to a policy of isolationism and vows to remain neutral in foreign affairs
The Treaty of Versailles angers totalitarian regimes and leads to a rise in nationalism
Axis Powers form: Germany, Italy, and Japan
Japan invades China (Manchuria); Italy invades Ethiopia; League of Nations does nothing
Hitler has Non-aggression Pact with Stalin but stabs him in the back; USSR later switches sides
Hitler invades Austria and Czechoslovakia; League of Nations does nothing
British and French leaders meet with Hitler and give in to his demands to avoid war: appeasement
Hitler invades Poland; Britain and France declare war (1939, beginning WWII)
France falls to Germany’s blitzkrieg = German military strategy of “lightning war”
FDR is reelected for his third term and rethinks U.S. position of isolationism – revised Neutrality Acts

8. FDR’s Four Freedoms speech
Read and annotate FDR’s Four Freedoms speech
Then answer the guiding questions.

9. FDR’s Four Freedoms speech
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of religion
Freedom from want (no more greed for more land so all nations can feel secure and live peacefully)
Freedom from fear (reduction of armaments for all nations so everyone can feel unthreatened)

10. How did the U.S. move closer to war?
U.S. Involvement in WWII
How did the U.S. move closer to war?
FDR’s Four Freedoms speech

11. 2. Lend-Lease Act Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)
Allowed president to supply any country with weapons and resources
Nullified the Neutrality Acts
FDR compared it to lending your garden hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire. He said this is what you do to prevent the fire from spreading to your property.

12. 3. Japanese aggression
Japan invaded China to collect raw materials and create an empire
Rape of Nanking: Japanese soldiers killed tens of thousands of captured Chinese soldiers and civilians

13. Rape of Nanking – 1937

14. Rape of Nanking – 1937

15. Rape of Nanking – 1937

16. Rape of Nanking – 1937

18. U.S. response to aggression
As a sign of protest, the U.S. decided to set an embargo (stop trades) on Japanese goods including cutting off their oil supply
Hideki Tojo ordered the Japanese navy to prepare of an attack on the U.S.

19. 4. Pearl Harbor Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
“A date which will live in infamy” - FDR
U.S. declared war on Japan. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.
What did isolationists think now?

22. The USS Nevada

32. Exit Slip #5
How did the U.S. change its stance from isolationism to full involvement in WWII? Include and explain all significant events that led to this change. Sentence Starters: the U.S. change its stance from isolationism to full involvement in WWII because______