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Take out your CRQ #26 Finish it NOW. Take out a piece of lined paper for note page 27 M/C-HW Let’s check WORLD WAR II 5/13 Learning Target- I can explain the steps that led to US involvement into World War II. 1. 4 9. 3 16. 1 22. 2 2.4 3. 2 4. 2 5. 3 6.2 7. 1 8.4 10. 1 11. 4 12. 2 13. 1 14. 2 15. 4 17. 1 18. 4 19. 3 20. 1 21. 1 23. 4 24. 3 25. 2 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: “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 Major Events of World War II 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…..