Transcript US Involvement in WWII PART II

U.S. Involvement in WWII
PART II
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
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U.S. involvement INCREASES
– U.S. gave Britain 50 WWI battleships
to transport goods across ocean
• Exchange for 8 defense bases
• FDR did NOT ask permission from
Congress
– Considered it an emergency
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1940: FDR elected to 3rd term
– 1st time in history
– Don’t want to change presidents in
crisis
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FDR increases support for Great Britain
Jan. 1941
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Four Freedoms Speech
FDR believes: best way to stay out of war is to
support Great Britain
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Example: fire at neighbors house
1. Be a good neighbor
2. Protect home
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Britain needs help…BUT no $$$
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March 1941 - Congress passes Lend-Lease Act
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FDR allowed to sell, exchange, lease, lend ANY military
weapon to ANY gov’t for ANY reason
By 1945: $40 million in aid
– Economic declaration of war
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August 1941
– Churchill & FDR meet secretly
on warship in Newfoundland
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• Sign Atlantic Charter
– “Blueprint” for world after WWII
• DEEPENS ALLIANCE***
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Hitler knows U.S. helping
allies
– AND…notice U.S. sending
weapons to Iceland
• England pick up
– Order German U-Boats attack
U.S. ships
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Sink 1 ship - about 100 sailors die
– Shock & anger U.S.
– U.S. still neutral
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FDR gives orders to attack German U-Boats on
sight
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June 1941
– Germany invades USSR
• Destroyed much
• WINTER halted everything
• USSR now on allied side
– U.S. entering WWII inevitable
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