America Enters the War Flashcards
FDR Supports England
FDR wanted change in neutrality acts - stays neutral for 2 days after GB declares war on Germany - helped GB destroy hitler
Destroyers for Bases
FDR revises neutrality acts - wanted to lift ban on arms sales - isolationists mad - Churchill asks for American destroyers - Roosevelt makes loophole to do so - cash and carry rule
Isolationist Debate
July 1940 - Americans favored helping allies - fight for freedom - wanted to help GB - America first Committee - against intervention - wanted to stay neutral - lindberg - neutrality debate in 1940 - kept FDR bc thought change would be bad rn
Edging Towards War
1940/41 us takes more steps to aid GB - four freedoms - speech,worship,want,fear
Lend Lease Act
GB runs out of funds - FDR makes lend lease act - lend arms that were vital to the defense of the us - keep GB fighting - us ‘lends’ 40 bil worth of weapons and vehicles to GB
Hemispheric Defense Zone
Germans are shipping shipments going to GB - GB doesn’t have ships to stop them - us navy can’t help bc of neutrality acts - FDR makes HDZ - western half of Atlantic is neutral now and the US navy patrols is - Germany can’t sink ships there
Atlantic Charter
Aug. 1941 FDR and Churchill meet - agree on the Atlantic Charter - commits a post-war democracy - anti-axis nations signs - FDR pledges to force and incident - u-boat fires at a US destroyer - FDR orders a shoot on sight on u-boats - u-boats sink reuben James - 115 die
America Embargoes Japan
restricts sell of war materials to Japan - Japan is angry and joins the Axis - American freezes Japan assets in us and stops oil to Japan - FDR demands that they leave indochina and make peace with china in order to get their oil back
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Hawaii - US knows attack is coming but doesn’t know its in pearl harbor so its wide open - air and water attack - Dec. 7 1941 - 2,403 Americans die - FDR ask congress to declare war
Germany Declares War on the US
they don’t need to - not in Axis contract - annoyed with us navy attacks - Germany and Italy declare war on us - Dec. 11
