End of Neutrality Policy:
The end of neutrality policy came with the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941, which allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to nations the administration wanted to support.
After repeated attacks by German submarines on U.S. ships, Roosevelt announced on 11 September 1941 that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to attack German and Italian war vessels in the "waters which we deem necessary for our defense".
Things the United States did that got us closer to war prior to Pearl Harbor.
FDR’s “Quarantine Speech”
bring all the peaceful countries together to isolate the Axis Powers and Communism.
not a very neutral speech
Panay Incident - 1937
Japan attacked the gun boat killing a couple of Americans.
The boat was in China.
Japan did apologize
Bases for Destroyers Pact - 1940
Great Britain need destroyers
they gave us 99 year leases on naval bases
Selective Training and Service Act
first peacetime draft in U.S. history
passed in 1940
United States starts drafting 21-35 year old males.
Atlantic Charter
Spring 1941
FDR and Churchill met
no territorial gain
no territorial changes without the people support from those countries
self-determination
free trade
destruction of the Nazis and then setting up a peaceful government in Germany
freedom of the seas
abandon the use of force, disarmament and stronger League of Nations
US vs. Japan
US stopped trading many items with Japan in 1940 after Japan invaded French Indochina
- US stopped trading oil with Japan in July, 1941
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