We continued with the World War 2 power point today. The Atlantic Charter made by Churchill and FDR was created in spring of 1941. The goals were no territorial gain, self-determination, destruction of the Nazis and then setting up a peaceful government in German, freedom of the seas, and abandon the use of force, disarment and a stronger League of Nations. German invaded the USSR it was the final plan for Operation Barbarossa. The invasion never reached Moscow. Liningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad were the 3 cities that Germans needed to take over to over power and take control of the USSR. They couldn't get them though. Scorched Earth Policy was Stalin's policy of destroying everything so that the Germans and Hitler couldn't use them. The Japanese leaders were Hideki Tojo and Emeperor Hirojito. Admirla Yamamoto was a college student that was in the U.S. He came up with the idea to attack Pearl Harbor and was a member of the Japanese Navy. They wanted to destroy our naval base there so that we would make a deal with them to trade goods again. It's hard to understand how they thought it would have worked and obviously it didn't. A lot of destruction occured but they didn't get all of our ships. They missed quite a few. On December 8, 1941, FDR signed the declaration of war. It was time that we decided to finally get involved int the war. Pearl Harbor pushed us forward into the war.
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