Transcript p._ch._16_sec._4_America_heads_to_war

AMERICA MOVES
TOWARD WAR
Ms. Ha
Ch. 16 Sec. 4
Pages: 550-557
I. Neutrality slips away
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A. Tripartite Pact
1. Any 1 country attacked
2. Others come to defense
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B. Signed by Axis Powers
1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Japan
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C. MAJOR PROBLEM!
1. If U.S. attacked one
2. Military nightmare
a) Two-ocean war
b) Atlantic & Pacific
D. U.S. building defenses
 1. Selective Training &
Service Act
2. Men: ages 21-35
3. Train: 16 million men
4. First peace-time draft
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E. FDR breaks 2-term
tradition
1. Runs for third term
2. Wendell Wilkie: Rep.
3. F.D.R. wins third term!
1940 Election

FDR
W. Wilkie
II. “Great Arsenal
of Democracy”
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A. Lend-Lease Act (1941)
1. Any country whose
defense was vital
2. Lend them arms to
fight
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B. Lend Lease Act
1. Aid to Great Britain
2. Aid to Soviet Union
a. June 1941
b. Hitler broke promise
to Stalin
c. Hitler invaded Soviet
Union
 d. U.S. sends
aid to
Soviet
Union
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C. German Wolf Packs
1. Hitler’s goal: block aid
2. German submarines
a. Called U-boats
b. Attack supply ships
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D. FDR: sink German
U-boats in self-defense
1. By 1943, radar slows
U-boat damage
2. Airborne
antisubmarine patrols
III. FDR plans for War
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A. Atlantic Charter
1. FDR and Churchill (GB)
meet secretly
2. Pledge: security
& aide to
each other
Churchill: Prime Minister
B. Allies: “A Declaration of
the United Nations”
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1. Nations who fought
Axis Powers
2. 26 nations or 4/5 of
the human race signed it.
C. U.S. deaths by Germans

1. German U-boats sink
two U.S. destroyers
a. Lost 11 lives: Kearny
b. Lost 100+ sailors on
Rueben James
c. U.S. death toll mounted