19361941 USHC 71 Analyze the decision of the United States to enter World War II including the nations movement from a policy of isolationism to international involvement and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ID: 262901
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The U.S. and the European War
(1936-1941)
USHC 7.1
Analyze the decision of the United States to enter World War II, including the nation’s movement from a policy of isolationism to international involvement and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
American
NeutralitySlide2
Totalitarian Dictatorships
SOVIET UNION
GERMANY
ITALY
JAPAN
STALIN
HITLER
MUSSOLINI
TOJOSlide3
Japanese
Expansion
Map Credit:
BBC Slide4
German
ExpansionSlide5
Appeasement
Photo by
eperalesSlide6
DO NOT INVADE POLAND!Slide7
Hitler Invades Poland
September, 1939
Map Credit:
ListowySlide8
The Situation: 1939
The Allies
Germany
Neutral
WAR
WARSlide9
Blitzkrieg
Panzer
(Lightning War)Slide10
Fall of
France
1940
Made by Niels Bosboom.Slide11
Battle of Britain
1940 Air Battles
Military TargetsCities/CiviliansSlide12
The World is
Falling ApartSlide13
SO???Slide14
WWI
It SUCKED!Slide15
“Isolationism”
aka, “Non-Intervention”Slide16
Neutrality Acts
1936, 1937, 1939
Photo by
*janine
*NO ARMS TO BELLIGERENTSSlide17
What If Britain Falls?Slide18
The Arsenal of Democracy
Cash and Carry (1939)
Destroyers
for
Bases (1940)Lend-Lease (1941)
Photo by mr.smashy
1939-1941Slide19
Pay cash and carry it home, yourself.
Cash and Carry
1939Slide20
Destroyers for Bases
Destroyers to Britain in exchange for naval bases in the Caribbean
1940Slide21
Lend-Lease Act
Let the British
borrow
military equipment
Photo by peasapFURTHER READING:FDR Press ConferenceDecember 17, 19401941Slide22
FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT in United States History
Selective Service Act
1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Training Act.Slide23
But We’re Still NEUTRALSlide24Slide25
A Campaign Promise
“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again:
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars!”
-- FDR (
10/30/1940)Slide26
The U.S. Enters
the WarSlide27
Japanese
EmpireAGGRESSIVE WARFARESlide28
Take THAT, Japan!Slide29
EMBARGO
NO OIL to Japan
By
Orange County ArchivesSlide30
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941Slide31
A date which will live in infamy…Slide32
Axis
Pact
Japan, Germany, and Italy agree to cooperate in their efforts… They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict.Slide33
The Allies
The Axis
Neutral
Occupied
WAR
WARWAR
December, 1941Slide34
Gentlemen…
Start your PROPAGANDA engines!Slide35