Transcript World War II

American History
Unit II- U.S. Foreign Affairs
World War II
Chapter 26- Clouds of War
Section 3- War Comes to the United States
The War spreads
 U.S.
extends the our neutral zone far
out into North Atlantic
 U.S. occupied Greenland
 U.S. seized German, Italian, French,
Holland and Norwegian ships in U.S.
ports.
 German and Italian property in U.S.
frozen.
Operation Barbarosa.
June 22, 1941 – Hitler makes the
great blunder- he feels that all
battlefields are alike and blitzkrieg
always works. He invades Russia
 Napoleon had learned a hard lesson a
hundred years before- Russia is too
big, too frozen and would cause the
downfall of his empire. Hitler would
learn the same lesson.
 Germans moved quickly and went
deep into Russia, but when they got to
Moscow the worst winter in 30 years
struck. Freezing temps stopped the
german advance.
 Germans are stalemated at Leningrad,
Stalingrad and Moscow
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Trouble in the Pacific
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Japan not the Germans would plunge the U.S.
into war.
1940- Japan became a partner of Germany
and Italy
Japan’s empire was called “The Greater East
Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”- Japan had taken
unprotected French and Dutch lands and
British lands and China were also on their list.
Japan wanted to seal off the “Burma Road”the Allied supply route for China. They did
successfully occupy bases in French Indochina
U.S. responds with embargo on all trade with
Japan.
All U.S. – Japanese discussions from this point
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China was the problem. U.S. wants the
Japanese out.
The Japanese demand we not support Chiang
Kai-shek in China.
“Day of Infamy”
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The choice for the Japanese was limited in
their eyes- Give up the idea of having an
empire or go to war with the U.S.- The
military leaders of Japan choose war,
October 1941- General Hideki Tojo came
to power
“Magic”- intelligence we received from
Japan after breaking the Japanese code.
We knew they would attack, but now
where. U.S. navy forces put on alert
status.
Dec. 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor. Perfect
surprise, and the greatest military disaster
in American History- 150 American
warplanes, 8 Battleships, 3 Cruisers and 3
destroyers, 70 civilians and 2300
servicemen.
Dec. 8, 1941- FDR speech to Congress-
Dec. 7, 1941