Pearl Harbor-unique fact. My topic:Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease Act
March 11, 1941. the Lend-Lease Act empowered the president to sell, transfer, lend, or lease war supplies—such as equipment, food, and weapons—to American allies during World War 2. Supplied GB, Soviet Union, France, and China from 1941-1945, in turn for military bases in other countries (rent bases). A total of 50.1 billion dollars worth of supplied were shipped. Great Britain received the most-31.4 billion dollars. 35 other governments(allies) also received aid. Repayment to the US was virtually complete by the late 1960s.
Pearl Harbor-The Japanese specifically chose to attack on a Sunday because they believed Americans would be more relaxed and thus less alert on a weekend.
There was a lady that operated a flying school in Hawaii that was out that morning with a student. The Japanese attack formation flew right past them. If they had a radio in their plane, they could have warned about the attack.
A radar post on the north slope of Hawaii picked up the Japanese formation on radar, but the duty officer there dismissed it as a flight of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers scheduled to land in the morning. The bombers did arrive later, right in the middle of the attack.
Notes
Japan invades French Indochina 1941
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.
Three options for Japan 90% of all trade stopped-attack US, get out of Indochina go back to Japan, compromise. Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 1941
9. Germany invades USSR, June 1941-1945
Why did he invade soviet union-1. Resources, 2. wanted to take down communism, 3. needed more space for German people=Lebensraum (living space), Lebensborn
Operation Barbarossa- plan for invading Russia. Key to winning USSR was these three cities- Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad. Lost- Russian winter, size of Russia. Russia pushed them back to Berlin. Never left half of Germany, made it communist.
Stalingrad-worst battle in W history. Leningrad-Got there and decided not to invade it, but they sat outside, bombarded it and waited for them to run out of resources and food. 100’s or thousands of people died. Moscow- G never got to Moscow; they bombed it but never got troops there.
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