1. Aggression in Asia Aggression in Europe US reaction
US declares war on Japan Cash-and-carry America First Committee formed
Isolationism Neutrality Acts FDR approves of Munich Pact
Lend-lease Act FDR: America will remain neutral! Economic sanctions against Japan
First peacetime draft Nye Committee Quarantine Speech
Road to US Involvement in WWII: Write the events listed above in the correct place in the US Reaction column
Aggression in Asia Aggression in Europe US reaction
2. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany – remilitarizes Germany (1933)
Benito Mussolini (Italy) invades Ethiopia (1935)
Rhineland Remilitarized (1936) – violation of 1919 Treaty of Versailles
4. Germany Annexes Austria (March, 1938) “Anchluss”
Munich Conference (September, 1938) Sudetenland given to Nazis
Churchill calls Munich “Appeasement”
5. Germany invades Poland (1939)
6. Germany Conquers France (1940)
Battle of Britain(1940)
Tripartite Pact (1940)- Germany/Italy/Japan will defend each other if attacked
1. Isolationism
Japan Invades Manchuria (1931)
3. Japan Invades China (1937)
7. Japan Invades SE Asia – French Bases in Indochina (July 1941)
8. Pearl Harbor Bombed – (Dec. 7, 1941)
2. Nye Committee documented large profits made by banks and manufacturers during WWI
: Neutrality Acts
- Passed by Congress to keep U.S.
out of future wars
FDR –” America will remain neutral!”
3. Quarantine Speech – criticizing aggression
4. FDR Approves of Munich Pact
5. Cash and Carry (1939) – Britain and France can buy American arms as long as they pay cash for them and transport them on their own ships.
First Peacetime Draft / “Destroyers for bases”
1940 America First Committee formed to support isolationism
Lend Lease Act (1941): President could lend or lease arms/supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.”
7. Economic Sanctions against Japan – Japan needs oil for its “War Machine”
8. Declaration of War against Japan