Atlantic Charter:
- US not so "neutral" anymore
- After WWII
- no territorial gain
- no territorial change w/out consent
- self determination
- free trade
- freedom of seas
- wont have anything to do with germany til nazis are gone
- build stronger league of nations
Operation Barbarossa
- German invasion of USSR
- hated communist, lebesbraum
- 3 prong strategy
- Army north
- Army centre
- Army south
- Scorched earth policy
- soviet union destroyed everything as they retreated
- hitler couldnt use any of their resources
- German supply line is extremely long
- Germans advance to Moscow
- winter is the turning point- germany starts not doin so good
- soviet slowly start pushing the germans back
Pearl Harbor
- start- japan invades french indochina
- US stops trading oil and stuff with them
- Japan offers compromise
- US refuses
- tells them to get out of indochina and china
- Japan decides to bomb pearl harbor
- thought we wouldnt want to go to war because of that
- thought that would get us to start trading again
- Japanese leader- herojito and tojo
- mastermind behind pearl harbor- Adm. Yamamoto
- had 2 waves of planes- cancelled 3rd wave
- put wood fins on bombs to allow them to be more buoyant
- didnt get our aircraft carriers
- December 8th 1941- FDR gives speech
- we declare war
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