US declares war on Japan
Isolationism
Lend-lease Act
First peacetime draft
Cash-and-carry
Neutrality Acts
FDR: America will remain neutral!
Nye Committee
America First Committee formed
FDR approves of Munich Pact
Economic sanctions against Japan
Quarantine Speech
Road to US Involvement in WWII: Write the events listed above in the correct place in the US Reaction column
Aggression in Asia
1.
Aggression in Europe
1. Isolationism
Japan Invades
Manchuria (1931)
2. Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany – remilitarizes
Germany (1933)
Benito Mussolini (Italy) invades
Ethiopia (1935)
3. Japan Invades China
(1937)
Rhineland Remilitarized (1936) –
violation of 1919 Treaty of
Versailles
4. Germany Annexes Austria
(March, 1938) “Anchluss”
Munich Conference (September,
1938) Sudetenland given to Nazis
7. Japan Invades SE Asia –
French Bases in
Indochina (July 1941)
8. Pearl Harbor Bombed –
(Dec. 7, 1941)
US reaction
2. Nye Committee documented large profits
made by banks and manufacturers during
WWI
1935-1937: Neutrality Acts
- Passed by Congress to keep U.S.
out of future wars
FDR –” America will remain neutral!”
3. Quarantine Speech – criticizing aggression
4. FDR Approves of Munich Pact
Churchill calls Munich
“Appeasement”
5. Cash and Carry (1939) – Britain and France can
buy American arms as long as they pay cash for
them and transport them on their own ships.
5. Germany invades Poland (1939)
6. 1940 First Peacetime Draft / “Destroyers for bases”
6. Germany Conquers France
(1940)
1940 America First Committee formed to support
isolationism
Battle of Britain(1940)
Tripartite Pact (1940)Germany/Italy/Japan will defend
each other if attacked
Lend Lease Act (1941): President could lend or lease
arms/supplies to “any country whose defense was vital
to the U.S.”
7. Economic Sanctions against Japan – Japan needs
oil for its “War Machine”
8. Declaration of War against Japan