America Moves Toward War
Chapter 16.4
Cash & Carry
The US Musters its Forces
“Cash and carry”- warring nations
could buy arms as long as they paid
cash
Axis Powers -Japan, Germany, and
Italy
US passes the draft and military
spending 1940
Roosevelt elected for a third term
Lend-Lease
“The Great Arsenal of Democracy”
• FDR- “No man can tame a tiger by
stroking it”
• Referring to Hitler
• Lend Lease Plan- the US can lend or
lease arms and other supplies to
“any country whose defense was
vital to the US
• US uses Lend Lease Act to help
USSR(Stalin)
• “The enemy of my enemy is my
friend”
• Germany sends U-Boats to stop
supplies by using the “Wolf Packs”
• Germany sinks 350, 000 tons of
supplies in one month
• FDR allows self defense
• Radar and sonar help
Axis Powers
Axis Powers
Atlantic Charter
United
Nations
Selective Service
(draft)
FDR Plans For War
• Atlantic Charter - US and Britain(FDR
and Churchill)
• Agree to
• Collective security, disarmament, self
determination, economic
cooperation and freedom of the seas
• United Nations established with 26
countries known as the Allies to fight
against the Axis Powers
• 34 ships are sunk by the Germans
Pink Star, Kearny and Ruben James
• FDR allows shoot on sight
Japan Attack the US
• Japan expands into Asia
• Hideki Tojo –Japanese general
• US embargos(refuses to sell) goods
to Japan (oil)
• Peace Talks(US and Japan) didn’t
work
“December 7, 1941 a date
that will live in infamy”
Attack on Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941 Japan sneak
attacks Pearl Harbor Hawaii
• FDR “A date which will remain in
infamy”
• US declares war on Japan
• Three days later Germany and Italy
declare war on US