Test Monday about WW2 topics and US Neutrality Acts
US neutrality in the 1930’s/early 1940
- Neutrality in general
- Neutrality acts passed by US in the ‘30s because of European and Asian issues
- US=very strong history with isolationism
- Passed to insure that US would not become involved in world conflict (war)
- Neutrality Act of ‘35
- Stopped trade with people at war
- Didn’t let trade of fire arms and ammunition
- Wouldn’t trade weapons and ammunition because it would lead US into war
- Neutrality Act of ‘36
- Wouldn’t loan money to countries at war
- Belligerents- countries at war
- Didn’t include countries in a civil war
- Neutrality Act of ‘37
- Included civil wars
- New cash and carry system-
- Aloud countries at war to trade with US but they had to pay in cash up front and take it back themselves
- would help Britain and free france
- Neutrality Act of '39
- Banned US ships from going into places where war was going on
- could trade weapons and ammuniton
- could trade with belligerent countries
- Lend-Lease Act
- March 11, 1941
- allowed President to give money to Britain
- re-payed in the '60s
- main part- each of the nations where fighting for themselves and the US
- German U-Boats
- after repeated attacks by German U-Boats on US ships in the Fall of 1941
- FDR announced that he had ordered the US Navy to attack German and Italian war ships in the "Water which we deem necessary for out defense"
- war was imminent
- Selective training and service act
- The Draft
- Passed in September 1940
- ended in 1947
- Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
- extended to all men aged 18 to 45 once US entered the war
- first peacetime draft in US history
- How did the Draft work
- each male registered was given a number between 1-7836
- if your number was drawn you went to war
- 158 was the first number to be drafted
- Atlantic charter
- Between US and Great Britain
- signed august 1941
- defined the allied goals for the post-war world
- Goals of the US before US got into the war
- 8 things
- no territorial gain
- no territorial changes without the peoples support from those countries
- self-determination
- destruction of the Nazis and then setting up a peaceful government in Germany
- freedom of the seas
- abandon the use of force, disarmament and a stronger League of Nations
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