Today we were still going over things for the test / quiz in a few days. Then he handed out assignments and mine was the lend - lease act.
The lend-lease act was a law that started a program under which the U.S. supplied the other allied powers. $50.1 billion dollars was given away. Today that would be worth $647 billion.
The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Theory. There are millions of conspiracy theories out there. The one I found is claiming FDR wanted to be in the fight and it has a lot of good info that suggests this probably did happen. This is what they said. FDR provoked the attack, knew about it before it even happened, and didn't warn the Hawaiian Commanders. These are the things that they back this with. In 1940 FDR order the west coast fleet to move to Pearl Harbor. There were complaints by Admiral Richardson that they would be destroyed if there was an attack. On October 7, 1940, Navy IQ analyst McCollum wrote an 8 point memo on how to force japan into war with us. FDR started the next day and all 8 were eventually accomplished. On February 11, 1941 FDR proposed sacrificing 6 cruisers and 2 carriers to enter the war. March 1941 FDR sold munitions and convoyed them to belligerents in Europe. These were both acts of war and both were violations to international law. There is more but it would take you 4 hours to read it. This is just the background and the accusation.
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