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Group Tasks

Spirit 338­339 & 339­340• Compare & contrast US neutrality policy in 1939 with that of the US before the War of 1812.  

Spirit 341­342 & 342­344• Explain which argument on the policy of isolation during WWII you find most convincing ­ Lindbergh's or the New York Times'. 

Spirit 344­345 & 345• Analyze the purpose of the Lend Lease Program.  Evaluate how it relates to the US Foreign Policy at the start of WWII.   

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"We have nothing to fear from a Nazi­European victory"

The America First Party

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I. Anglo­American Alliance• Roosevelt + Churchill held secret negotiations in                            1939 on how the U.S. would help Britain against                         Germany • FDR insisted that Britain open most of its Empire to U.S. trade in order to get lend­lease aid• By 1944, FDR specifically insisted on access to British owned oil fields in Iran 

II. U.S./Britain Alliance with France• June 1940­ Germany invades France and a "neutral" French regime is created in Vichy• Anglo­American seizure in Nov. 1942 in North Africa established a new government in Vichy

 

 

US Global Aims

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THE U.S. AND THE IMPENDING WAR

F.D.R. vs. Isolationists

• F.D.R.'s policies1. Arms embargo (1935­1939)2. Lend­Lease (1940­45)

• Isolationists1. Congressional Republicans2. some big business

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (1935­45)

Free trade, open markets, no tariffs, anti­colonial  

OBSTACLES

Germany1. In the 1930’s attempted to build an Aski­Mark2. FDR tried repeatedly to convince Hitler that the two countries could be allies and the US would loan Germany $$$ if Hitler would open his markets.  Hitler refused.

Great Britain1. Ottawa Conference (1933): Britain established a “Sterling  bloc.”2. Great Britain must agree to free­trade.3. Interested in oil in Mideast (S. Arabia and Kuwait).

Japan1. Japan created the East­Axis Co­Prosperity Sphere to seal off China, Vietnam, Korea and  some Pacific Islands2. FDR tried to persuade Japan to open markets

• Soviet Union:  FDR hoped to open markets sealed off by the Soviet government

MORE THAN INTERESTING:  IBM created a computer punch­card system for                                                       Nazi’s to identify and keep track of Jews.                                                                                         (after 1935 to 1945)

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American Response to the events in Asia and Europe

  ­  3 Neutrality Acts  ­  US witholds weapons and loans  ­ "Cash and Carry" policy

Europe

.   1933 ­ Hitler rises to power    1936 ­ Axis Agreement (Germany, Italy, Japan)            ­ Nazis (to test their weapons) bomb Guernica in Spanish Civil War    1938 ­ Anschluss with Austria    1938 ­ Munich Pact Appeasement    1939 ­ Germany invades Poland ­ War begins

Asia

1931 ­ Japan invades Manchuria1936 ­ Japanese seize Chinese capital1940 ­ US terminates a trade agreement with Japan (no access to scrap metals            and oil)

1941­ "US is the greatest arsenal of democracy" ­ Lend­Lease Act

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Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941

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