Chapter 16 Section 4

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Chapter 16 Section 4
America Moves Toward War
Why?
Event
German
1939 Cash &
tanks thunder Carry
across Poland.
Revise
Neutrality Act
of 1935
Significance?
Warring
nations buy
U.S. arms as
they pay cash
& transport in
own ships.
FDR helps
GB & France
& keeps us out
of war
Why?
Event
Germany
1940 France
extending the Falls
Third Reich
Significance?
U.S. helps GB
“All aid short of
war”
500k rifles
80k machine
guns
50 old
destroyers for
GB bases in
Caribbean &
Newfoundland
Un-neutral Act
Why?
Event
Keep U.S. out September
of war
27, 1940
Tripartite
Pact
Significance?
Axis Nations
would defend
each other if
U.S. attacked
U.S. wants to
avoid a two
ocean war
Why?
Event
Significance?
Blitzkrieg
Nazi
Victories
in 1940
Congress
boosted defense
spending
Military
Draft/Selective
Service
16M(21-35)
1M in
W.Hemisphere
Why?
Event
Significance?
War is costly
1940 British
Out of Cash
1941 Lend
Lease Act
Lend arms &
supplies to
any country
whose
defense was
vital to U.S.
Why?
Event
Significance?
Germany
1941 Hitler
Lend Lease
extending the Invades
extended to
Third Reich
Soviet Union Soviets
Enemy of
my enemy is
a friend
Why?
Event
Significance?
Prevent
shipments to
the Allies
September 4,
1941 German
submarine
fires on U.S.
destroyer
Greer
Shoot on
sight
Naval War
with Germany
Arm U.S.
merchant
ships
Why?
Event
Significance?
Japanese
want
expansion
like Italy &
Germany
Japan
invades
Manchuria &
Indochina
U.S. cuts off
trade with
Japan
Cut off oil
Causes
Pearl Harbor
Why?
Event
U.S. cut off
trade to protest
& prevent
Japanese
expansion
December 7, U.S. enters WWII
1941 Japan
Pacific
fleet
except
Attacks
Pearl Harbor for 3 aircraft carriers
Significance?
destroyed
U.S. has 2 ocean
war
Isolationists
converted
Build army & navy
Japan moves twd
Dutch East Indies
Definitions
 1. Axis Powers: September 27, 1940
Germany, Italy & Japan signed mutual
defense pact & became known as Axis
Powers
 2.Arsenal of Democracy: U.S. would supply
arms and supplies to Allies. Ex: Destroyers
for Bases & Lend Lease w/ GB & USSR
Definitions
3. Wolf Pack: At night tours of 40 German
submarines patrolled areas in N. Atlantic
where convoys would be expected
4. Atlantic Charter: FDR & W.C. met on
U.S.S. Battleship Augusta & pledged
collective security, disarm, selfdetermination, economic coop, freedom of
seas. Basis for Declaration of United
Nations
Definitions
 5. Hideki Tojo: Chief of staff of Japan’s
Kwantang Army who launched invasion into
Manchuria. Became prime minister and
prepared Pearl Harbor Attack
 6. Hirohito: Emperor of Japan
Objectives:
 1. Describe U.S. response to outbreak of
war in Europe.
– Isolationists
– Cautiously moved away from neutrality-1939
Cash & Carry
Objectives:
 2. Explain how FDR assisted Allies w/o declaring
war.
 1939 Cash & Carry
 1940 Rifles & Machine guns
 1940 Destroyers for Bases
 1940 Boost Defense Spending
 1940 Lend Lease Act
 1941 Shoot on sight/naval war/merchant ships
Objectives:
 3. Summarize events that brought U.S. into
WWII.
 Nazi victories in Europe/fall of France
 Wolf Packs attacking U.S. ships/shoot on
sight
 Japan invades Manchuria & Indochina / cut
off trade
 Pearl Harbor