Wednesday 3/13/13

Germany Invades USSR:
- invades because of:
  - resources
  - take down communist
  - Lebensraum-
    - living space in Soviet Union for German people
- Operation Barbarossa:
  - Leningrad (St. Peters)
    - died of starvation
    - eating whatever to survive
  - Moscow
    - capital
  - Stalingrad (Volgograd)
    - Biggest bloodiest battle
    - killed by gun fire'
Japan invades French Indochina:
- Invasion of French Indochina US stopped trading with Japan
- 3 options for Japan:
  - Attack US-
    - Pearl Harbor
  - Get out of French Indochina
  - compromise-
    - Japan-
      - get out of French Indochina US trades with them
    - US-
      - get out of French Indochina and China

US Neutrality

Bases of Destroyers-

Summer 1940:
- Britain purchases US small arms
- Needed alternative cash transactions
September 1940:
- Roosevelt signed Destroyers-for-bases Agreement

US-
- gave 50 Naval destroyers to Britain
- in exchange for:
  - Use of Naval and Air Bases in 8 British possessions
    - Avalon Peninsula
    - coast of Newfoundland
    - Great Bay of Bermuda
agreement:
- lease guaranteed 99 years:
  - free from all rent and charges other than such compensation to be mutually agreed on to be paid by the US

Pearl Harbor:

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