Thurs. April 1

Bases for destroyers- Britain gave us 99 year leases for naval bases and US gave Britain old destroyers

1940 election- FDR vs Wendell Wilke- of course FDR won

FDR signs Lend-Lease Act-

Pearl Harbor conspiracy?- That we wanted to get attacked so we had a reason to go to war

Atlantic Charter Spring 1941- we wont make any deals with Germany

German Invasion of USSR- Wanted control of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow- didnt succeed in getting all three cities- Hitler didnt plan for winter and was unprepared, this changed course of war-

Stalin demanded Scorched Earth Policy- as Soviets retreated they burned everything so Germans couldnt use them


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