Today we took notes and I presented our discussions over
- US Army: 218 KIA
- Civilians: 68
2403 killed in all, The US had 1,178 personnel wounded.
55 Japanese died, in addition to an unknown number of Japanese wounded.
Pearl Harbor = 2,500 people died, wounded 1,000 more and damaged or destroyed 18 American ships and nearly 300 airplanes.
Neutrality Act of 1936
- Passed in February 1936
- Lasted 14 months
- It was meant to renew the condition of the Act of 1935
- It didn't include restrictions on oil and truck companies so we were giving supplies like that to Spain, Italy, and Japan
- It also forbid all loans to belligerent countries and countries at war
- Belligerents = a country that is super aggressive (like Germany, Japan, Italy)
Neutrality in General
- Passed in the United States in 1930's in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that would eventually lead to WW2
- Caused by the desire to be isolationist and keep us out of European issues
- Passed to ensure we would not be pulled into a world war/conflicts like we did during WW1
- U.S. had a very strong history of isolationism
- Our country was split between Interventionists vs. Isolationists
Interventionsists = people who wanted to get involved in the war and help
Isolationists = stay out of the war and European problems
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