Transcript World War II

Now Britain Is All Alone!
With the fall of
France, real
American
neutrality ends…
U. S. Lend-Lease Act,
1941
Great Britain.........................$31 billion
Soviet Union..........................$11 billion
France..................................$3 billion
China..................................$1.5 billion
Other European......................$500 million
South America.......................$400 million
The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000
Lend-Lease
Battle of Britain:
The “Blitz”
Battle of Britain:
The “Blitz”
The London “Tube”:
Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz
The Royal Air Force
British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
The Atlantic Charter
A meeting of Roosevelt and
Churchill off the coast of
Newfoundland (USS
Augusta)They sign treaty of
friendship in August 1941.
It solidifies their alliance.
It est. a blueprint for
post-war world
Fashioned after Wilson’s 14
Points.
Calls for League of Nations
type organization.
Operation Barbarossa:
Hitler’s Biggest Mistake
Operation Barbarossa:
June 22, 1941
3,000,000 German soldiers.
3,400 tanks.
• So what leads to Pearl Harbor?
– FDR secretly promises Churchill that the US
would try to “force an ‘incident’ that could
lead to war” with Germany
– fall of 1941 the Merchant fleet is armed and
expected to use “active defense”
– October, German sub sinks the Reuben
James and American destroyer
• FDR is focused on Germany, and seeks
to avoid a crisis with Japan…
• the Panay, an American gunboat is
destroyed on the Yangtze River
• To continue building their empire, the
Japanese needed steel, oil, heavy
equipment and machine parts… and
their primary supplier was the US
• To prevent further Japanese expansion,
the Roosevelt administration placed an
embargo on certain goods..
• When the Japanese move against
Indochina in April 1941 (French
colonies) the US freeze all assets in the
US and block shipments of scrap iron
and aviation fuel
• The Japanese request a meeting with
FDR, and he agrees provided that they
withdraw from China and Indochina…
• talks are conducted at a lower level, but
both sides brace for war…
• FDR expects an attack, but potentially in
the Dutch East Indies or British Malaya
(in search of rubber and oil)
• But instead they attack Hawaii, an
American colony
December 7, 1941
• 18 warships sunk or badly
damaged
• 323 planes lost
• 2400 Americans died
• FDR calls it “a day which will
live in infamy”
The “Big Three”
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin