1. USH 13:4 America Enters the War – U.S. sends old destroyers to Great Britain – Americans favored helping the allies, but staying out of the war

2. 13:4 Lend-Lease Act – Great Britain ran out of money for the war – Roosevelt agrees to lend or lease arms to allies – Any country that fought against Nazism

3. 13:4 Hemispheric Defense Zone – Roosevelt’s way to work around neutrality – Declared western half of Atlantic as part of Western Hemisphere – U.S. ships patrolled area

4. 13:4 Atlantic Charter – U.S., Great Britain, 15 other anti-Axis countries – Postwar world of: Democracy Nonaggression Free trade Economic advancement Freedom of the seas

5. 13:4 U.S. and Japan – U.S. supplied Japan with iron, steel, oil – Congress gives president power to restrict the sale of “strategic materials” to Japan – U.S. offers lend-lease to China Hoped that China would keep Japan in check – Strategy fails

6. 13:4 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941 – Sank or damaged: 8 battleships 3 cruisers 4 destroyers Six other vessels – 188 airplanes destroyed – 2,403 Americans killed (1,178 injured)

7. 13:4

9. Germany Declares War on the U.S. – Hitler wanted Japan’s help in the Pacific Thought Japan would easily defeat US in Pacific