Atlantic Charter -
FDR/Churchill
- Spring 1941
- No territorial gain.
- No territorial changes without the peoples support from those countries.
- Self determinatioin.
- 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 a stronger League of Nations.
German Invasion of USSR
- Final plan for Operation Barbarossa. (Hitler's biggest mistake.)
Scorched Earth Policy -
Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated.
- just destory everything so Germans can't use them.
We kept trading oil with Japan that led to Pearl Harbor.
Master mind behind the Pearl Harbor attack - Admiral Yamamoto.
On December 7th 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The Japs thought that US was a 'sleeping giant', so they attacked.
Japan cancelled their 3rd wave because they thought they acheived their goal.
If they come back a third time, they thought they'd get shot down.
Congress declares war. December 8 1941 the president signed the thing to go to war.
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