Transcript Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Chapter 16.4
1939 Cash and Carry – congress
approved warring nations could
purchase war supplies from the U.S. as
long as they came and got them
 Neutrality Act 1939 formal name of Cash
& Carry

Axis Powers
Germany, Italy and Japan agreed to an
alliance
 As a result in 1940 Congress increases
military spending and passes the first
peacetime draft
 1940 – Third term in office for FDR

Lend Lease
Late 1940 Britain running out of cash.
Congress passes Lend Lease Act March
1941
 June 1941 Hitler invades Soviet Union,
result the U.S. sends them equipment
under lend lease act

Wolf Packs
Spring through Fall 1941 German uboats would patrol the seas against any
supplies being sent to Europe
 They destroyed 350,000 tons of
equipment
 Sept. 1941 U.S. Navy given permission
to fire in self defense against the wolf
packs

Atlantic Charter
FDR and Winston Churchill met on a
ship, the USS Augusta to discuss war
matters. Churchill wanted a declaration
of war but FDR said Congress would not
go for it but that he would “wage war”
and do “everything” to “force an incident”
 Charter became known as “A Declaration
of United Nations”

Pearl Harbor Attacked
December 7, 1941
 Japanese Attack
 Sunday morning
 People still asleep
 Hideki Tojo commander of Japanese
Armed forces

Pearl Harbor

In less than two
hours the Japanese
had killed 2,345
military people
Tojo
 57 civilians died
 1,247 military
wounded
 Sunk or damaged 21
ships
The Arizona

Ship sunk and never
brought up
 1,177 men still in the
Arizona
 It is now a memorial
in Pearl Harbor
Damage
Not as bad as Japan had hoped, Pearl
Harbor very shallow.
 All but the Arizona were able to be
brought back up to surface and repaired
 U.S. declared war on Japan Dec. 8,
1941 a day which will live in infamy

Answer the following:
1. Describe what was decided in the
Atlantic Charter. Page 554