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Do Now:Complete the

Do Now, then

set up your

notes

2/23/2016Americas Entry into WWII (1935 1941)

Vocabulary:

appeasementa policy of pacifying someone by

giving into their demands

anti-Semitismprejudice against Jews

Notes

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Announcements

College Homework due tomorrow

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Road to War: Asia

1931: Japan invades Manchuria

Stimson Doctrine: US would not recognize

countries by force

1937: Japanese sink USS Panay

US continues selling oil & scrap metal to

Japan

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Road to War: Europe

1922: Fascism in Italy

1933: Nazis in Germany

1936-39: Spanish Civil War

1938: Kristallnacht

Anschluss

Munich Conference

1939: Invasion of Poland

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American Isolationism

Nye Committee

1935-37 Neutrality Acts: arms

embargo, cash and carry

America First Committee:organized to oppose American

involvement in war

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Coughlin: anti-Semitic radio

priest

Turned aside refugees (Jews)

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Ending Isolationism

By 1940, Germany had conquered Europe and

was bombing London (The Blitz)

FDR defeats Wendell Willkie to win a 3rdterm,

1940 1940: FDR describes Four Freedoms & says US

must be arsenal of democracy

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Ending Isolationism

FDR approves destroyers for bases deal

Lend-Lease Act (1941): US may loan equipment

to allies

Massive military buildup (stimulates US economy) Atlantic Charter (1941): FDR meets secretly with

Winston Churchill

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US Entry into War

US stops selling scrap metal to Japan after they

invade Indochina

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

US joins war

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Check for Understanding: True or

False?

Charles Lindbergh helped Roosevelt gain

support for the war.

Most Americans agreed with the America

First Committee in the 1930s.

Under the Lend-Lease Act, warring

countries had to pay cash for US goods.

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Synthesis

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Possible Thesis

Although the American public originally

opposed getting involved in both World

Wars, the differences can be explained by

differences in leadership and asresponses to the experience of the

previous war.