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FDR revised the Neutrality Acts
◦ “cash and carry” – permit nations to buy American
arms as long as they paid cash and carried the
goods home in their own ships.
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Axis Powers – Italy, Germany, and Japan
Roosevelt asked Congress to increase
spending for national defense
◦ United States didn’t have a big army anymore and
needed to build it up.
◦ Selective Training and Service Act – 16 million men
ages 21-35
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Lend-lease – replaced “cash-and-carry” where
president would lend or lease arms and other
supplies to any country whose defense was vital
to the United States.
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
◦ Soviet Union used a scored-earth policy and Hitler
moved his army out.
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German Wolf Packs
◦ Groups of 15 – 20 U-boats
◦ Sank over 1.2 million tons of British shipping.
◦ United States helped countries using the lend-lease
program to get their supplies back to their countries.
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Atlantic Charter
◦ Churchill and FDR pledged
 No territorial expansion
 Pursue no territorial changes without the consent of the
inhabitants
 Respect the right of people to choose their own form of
government
 Promote free trade among nations
 Encourage international cooperation to imporve peoples lives
 Build a secure peace based on freedom from want and fear
 Work for disarmament of aggressors
 Establish a “permanent system of general security.
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Atlantic charter was used to term the word
Allies which was any country that fought
against the Axis Powers.
U.S. Destroyer was fired on by a German Uboat, American merchant ship was sunk, and
another destroyer was sunk killing 100
american sailors.
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Japan started to take over British colonies
◦ Britain was busy fighting Germany to fight Japan.
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Hideki Tojo new prime minster of Japan
◦ Planning to attack America
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December 6, 1941 FDR received a decoded
message that said Japan was going to reject
all American peace proposals.
December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor was bombed
◦ Victory for Japan
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United States declared war on Japan
◦ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States
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