Transcript Chapter 16 Section 4 America Moves Toward War

Chapter 16
Section 4
America
Moves
Toward War
Why?
German
tanks
thunder
across
Poland.
Revise
Neutrality
Act of 1935
Event
Significance?
1939
Cash &
Carry
Warning
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
extending France
the Third Falls
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?
Keep
U.S.
out of
war
Event
Significance?
September
27, 1940
Tripartite
Pact
Axis
Nations
would
defend each
other if U.S.
attacked
U.S. wants
to avoid a
two ocean
war
Why?
Event
Significance?
Congress
Victories boosted
in 1940
defense
spending
Military
Draft/Selectiv
e Service
Blitzkrieg Nazi
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?
Germany
extending
the Third
Reich
Event
1941 Hitler
Invades
Soviet
Union
Significance?
Lend
Lease
extended
to Soviets
Enemy of
my enemy
is a friend
Why?
Event
September
Prevent
shipment 4, 1941
German
to the
submarine
Allies
fires on
U.S.
destroyer
Greer
Significance?
Naval War
with
Germany
Arm U.S.
merchant
ships
Why?
Event
Japanese Japan
invades
want
expansion Manchuria
&
like Italy &
Indochina
Germany
Significance?
U.S. cuts
off trade
with
Japan
Cut off
oil
Causes
Pearl
Harbor
Why?
U.S. cut off
trade to
protest &
prevent
Japanese
expansion
Event
Significance?
December
7, 1941
Japan
Attacks
Pearl
Harbor
U.S. enters WWII
Pacific fleet except
for 3 aircraft carriers
destroyed
U.S. has 2 ocean
war
Isolationists
converted
Build army & navy
Japan moves
toward 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 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,
self-determination, economic coop,
freedom of seas. Basis for
Declaration of United Nations
Definitions
 5. Hideki Tojo: Chief of staff
of Japan’s Kwan tang 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