HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!! Today we started out talking about what's happening in Japan. Then we continued reviewing our World War II info and adding new things we don't know yet. Winston Churchill was criticized a lot and then people started to realize later on that what he was saying made sense. People started to realize he had a good point. We listened to some of the speechs he gave. The nazi's had many goals: destroy the Royal Air Force before invasion was possible, attack and destroy the British Navy, and attack british troops. Great Britian gave us 99 year leases on the following bases: Antigua, British Guiana, St. Lucia, Bermuda, Newfoundland, and Trinidad. In the 1940 election Wendel Wilkie and FDR ran and of course FDR won. It was a pretty easy victory for him but not as big a blow out as the previous election. Roosevelt singed a Lend-Lease act. This wouldn't make us loan money to other countries. Instead we would give them ships and stuff and then they would pay us back after the war. There was a lot of trade issues with Great Britian because the ships that transported the goods from/ to there were being sunk by enemy ships. There were thousands of ships that Germany sunk.
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