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Finish it NOW.
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WORLD WAR II
5/13 Learning Target- I can
explain the steps that led to
US involvement into World
War II.
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AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
Origins?
 George
Washington
 Monroe Doctrine
 Failure to join the League
of Nations
LEND-LEASE ACT
Neutrality Act of 1939
 FDR
found a way around the Neutrality Acts
to provide aid, including warships to Great
Britain.
 He convinced Congress to sign the LendLease which allowed the US to sell or lend
war materials:
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“to any country whose defense the President
deems vital to the defense of the United States!”
FDR said the US would become the
Arsenal of Democracy- sound familiar?
US response to Japanese
aggression
 US
bans sale items to Japan that include
war materials: iron, steel and oil
 Extreme militarists gaining power in
Japan
 Japan wanted lands in Asia and Pacific
 US interfering in plans
NEUTRALITY SHATTERED
1941
 December
7, 1941 Japanese War planes
attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii
 FDR called it “a date that will live in
infamy”!
 Attack fueled nationalism and patriotism
 Congress declared war
on Japan the day after
the attack
USS Arizona
Go to Pearl Harbor Photos
Major Events of World War II
 Europe:
1939 Germany Invades Poland – Blitzkrieg
 1940 Most of Europe falls to the Nazis - France &
Battle of Britain
 June 6, 1944 D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy,
France across English Channel
 December 1944 – Battle of Bulge – last Nazi
offensive
 April 1945 US and USSR forces meet at
Elbe River and Hitler kills himself
 May 8th 1945 V-E Day
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Major Events of World War II
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Asia
1941-1942 Japan seizes most of SE Asia and is on
move towards Australia
US begins Island hopping campaign
1942 Battle of Midway – US gains supremacy in
Pacific
1944-1945 bitter battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa
August 6, 1945 Truman agrees to use Atomic bomb
on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 US drops atomic bomb on
Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 Hirohito announces
Japanese defeat to people
Wartime Diplomacy
 Atlantic
Charter Meeting 1941 – FDR &
Churchill meet over ensuring lasting peace
 Yalta 1945 Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin
outlined division of postwar Germany and
planned for trials of war criminals Nuremberg
Wartime Diplomacy
 Potsdam
1945 – Truman and other Allied
leaders warned Japan to surrender to
prevent utter destruction…..