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Thursday- Pearl Harbor
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United States
- Allied Power
- Main Powers
- Great Britain
- Soviet Union
- United States
- China
- France
- Other Powers
- Mexico
- Australia
- Belgium
- India
- Iran
- US after WWII
- never signed the Treaty of Versailles
- Wilson (D) vs Congress (R)
- Republican Warren Harding won the 1920 election with a promise to "Return to Normalcy"
- US went back to focusing on America in the 20's and 30's
- 4 Power Pact
- US, GB, France, and Japan
- Would respect each other's possessions in the Pacific
- 5 Power Pact
- Including Italy
- Limited construction of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers
- 9 Power Pact
- Guaranteed Chinese independence
- US, Japan, China, France, GB, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- US did sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact denouncing war as a means to settle dispute
- Neutrality in General
- Neutrality Acts were passed by the US in the 1930's in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that eventually led to WWII
- They were caused by the desire to be isolationist in the US following WWI
- Passed to ensure that the US would not become involved in world conflicts (war)
- US had very strong history of isolationism
- America First Committee
- Kept US neutral
- Focus on America first
- Why go to war and help Great Britain?
- Bettering our country
- Panay Incident-December 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan
- Bases for Destroyers
- Passed in September 1940, between US and Great Britain
- Fifty US destroyers were given to GB in exchange for land rights on British Colonies for naval or air base purposes
- Lend-Lease Act
- March 1941
- Allowed US to sell, lend or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
- US gave $50 billion ($650 billion today) to Allied nations throughout the war
- Gave most to Great Britain
- Selective Training and Service Act
- Passed in September, 1940 and ended in 1947
- Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
- Extended to all men aged 18-45 once US entered war
- Atlantic Charter
- Signed in August 1941 between the US and Great Britain
- Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
- Many similarities to Wilson's 14 points
Japan
Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- Sunday morning
- USS Arizona Memorial
- names of the Arizona's dead are engraved on this white marble wall at the memorial
- December 8, 1941 we declare war
- FDR's War Message
- Pearl Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked on December 7th
- "Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya"
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam"
- "Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands"
- "Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island"
- "This morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island"
- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
- After Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940, US stopped trading with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April, 1941 guaranteeing that Japan and USSR would not go to war
- Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
- Only way to force US' hand was to hit them hard in a surprise attack forcing them out of the war
- Japan knew that this plan was a huge risk, but thought it was the only way to defeat US
- Plan backfired. Instead, Japan "awoke a sleeping giant"
- Backdoor to War Conspiracy
Great Britain
- Leaders during war
- Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister)
- Factories Act
- Holiday with Pay Act
- Housing Act
- Policy of Appeasement
- Winston Churchill (Prime Minister)
- Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister)
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