Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War I The London Conference 193366 nations to gather to fight global depression FDRfocusing on home declined conference Every man for himself II Freedom for from the Filipinos and Recognition for the Russians ID: 224341
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AP Chapter 34
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of WarSlide2
I. The London Conference
1933-66 nations to gather to fight global depression
-FDR-focusing on home, declined conference
“Every man for himself”Slide3
II. Freedom for (from?) the Filipinos and Recognition for the Russians
Philippines-America hope to free itself of its financial costly possession
Tydings
-McDuffie Act (1934)-12 years for freedom
1933-FDR recognizes USSR (counterweight to Germany and Japan) Slide4
III. Becoming a Good Neighbor
Good Neighbor Policy-FDR’s policy to build friendlier relations with western hemisphere nations
-marines pulled out of Haiti
-Platt Amendment lifted in Cuba
-US relaxed on Isthmus
-Mexico retained oil against American corporation protestSlide5
IV. Secretary Hull’s Reciprocal Trade Agreements
-designed to uplift American exports
-Americans would reduce rates up to 50% if other country was willing to do so
-Attempt to make domestic and international economies grow
-paved way for American led free trade agreements after WWIISlide6
V. Storm-Cellar Isolationism
USSR-Joseph Stalin-seized control of totalitarian USSR
Benito Mussolini-Italy (invaded Ethiopia)
Adolph Hitler-Germany (Rome-Berlin Axis with Italy)
Japan-brewing Navy in Asia
League of Nations-helpless
US-Johnson Debt Default Act-debt dodging nations could no longer borrow money
Americans-stay out and focus on own sufferingSlide7
VI. Congress Legislates Neutrality
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36 and 37
-if President recognizes foreign wars, Americans cannot sail on a belligerent ship, transport munitions to a belligerent or loan money to a belligerent
-idea that Americans helped cause WWI to make profits
-actuality-no distinction made and balance in favor of dictators Slide8
VII. American Dooms Loyalist Spain
Spain-fight between
Francisco
Franco (fascist with Italy and Germany) v. Loyalist regime
-Abraham Lincoln Brigade-3k Americans who went to help Loyalist regime
US declared both groups at war-embargoed both
Franco wins and Spain’s democracy diesSlide9
VIII. Appeasing Japan and Germany
Japan
-Beijing-all out invasion of China
-FDR-Quarantine Speech-positive endeavors to quarantine the aggressors-economic embargos
-Panay-US ship sunk-paid for by Japan
-Japanese humiliated Americans in China by slappings and strippingsSlide10
Germany
-building up armed forces
-took back Rhineland
-took back Austria
-took Sudetenland
-took Czechoslovakia
-appeased by democraciesSlide11
IX. Hitler’s Belligerency and US Neutrality
Hitler Stalin Pact
-nonaggression pact between Germany and USSR
-Germany-clear to fight west
-9/1/1939-Poland blitzkrieg-France and Britain declare war
Neutrality Act of 1939
-cash and carry for Allies to get American goodsSlide12
X. The Fall of France
USSR-knocked out Finland
Germany-knocked out Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and Belgium
-France fell in June 1940
-Britain left alone
Congress-$37 billion to be prepared for war
-1940 conscription-first non wartime draftSlide13
XI. Refugees from the Holocaust
Kristallnacht-11/9/38—Germans attacked Jewish shops and synagogues-91 Jews died and 30k more sent to concentration camps
St. Louis-ship from Hamburg to Havana to US to Canada and back to Europe harboring Jewish refugees denied in US
-War Refugees Board-help bring Jews into US after Nazi genocide began to be verified in 1942
-US Rescued 150k compared to 6 million who diedSlide14
XII. Bolstering Britain
Britain left alone
-Battle of Britain-Americans heard radio reports
-Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
-America First Committee
-FDR-transfer 50 WWI ships to England and US gain 8 strategic base sites Slide15
XIII. Shattering the Two-Term Tradition
Election of 1940
-(R)-Political newcomer Wendell L. Willkie
- “dictator” Roosevelt although agreed
-(D) FDR
-ran for 3
rd
term as lingering war crisis
-won based on experience as there was possibility of warSlide16
XIV. A Landmark Lend-Lease Law
Land Lease Bill
-US provide weapons to nations fighting dictators and would receive them back at the end of the war
-passed with Isolationist and anti-Roosevelt opposition
-$50 billion spent on it during WWII
-Ended American pretense of neutrality
-Robin Moor-unarmed merchant ship-sunk by GermanySlide17
XV. Charting a New World
Hitler attacked Russia on June 22, 1941
US sent $1 billion aid to USSR
Atlantic Charter (FDR and Churchill)
-no territorial changes
-people could choose gov’t
-disarmament and peace of security
-followed Wilson’s pointsSlide18
XVI. US Destroyers and Hitler’s U-boats Clash
US-sent destroyers to protect merchant ships as far as Iceland (Britain had to finish the journey)
-U-boats attacked ships and destroyers
-Arm merchant ships in November 1941Slide19
XVII. Surprise Assault on Pearl Harbor
US-embargo gasoline and machinery supplies
Japan and Washington relations-Japan needed them to continue war in China (4 years going)
12/7/1941-bombed Pearl Harbor
-3k personnel harmed
12/11/41-US declares war officiallySlide20
XVIII. America’s Transformation from Bystander to Belligerent
Slowly-help Britain and prevent trade with Japan
Events slowly crept up to Pearl Harbor
-Defend democracy than let dictators
rule supreme