WWII Part 3

Roosevelt wanted to remain ______ but prepared for the war

• neutral

• grew the US Navy

• Selective Services Act

• Lend-Lease Act

Congress grew the __________ by providing 40 destroyer ships

• neutral

• grew the US Navy

• Selective Services Act

• Lend-Lease Act

1940- enacted as a peacetime draft

• neutral

• grew the US Navy

• Selective Services Act

• Lend-Lease Act

Congress passed this allowing the US to sell, lend or lease weapons to any country (vital to our defense)

• neutral

• grew the US Navy

• Selective Services Act

• Lend-Lease Act

giving up military weapons-The Atlantic Charter called for this

• disarmament

• Japanese Threat

• Japanese prime minister

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

they are expanding their empire so we froze their funds

• disarmament

• Japanese Threat

• Japanese prime minister

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

Konoye did not think they could defeat the US

• disarmament

• Japanese Threat

• Japanese prime minister

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

Sunday, December 7, 1941

• disarmament

• Japanese Threat

• Japanese prime minister

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

After Pearl Harbor, we went to war with

• Pearl Harbor

• join the US services

• join the workforce

• spent on the war

15 million Americans ( 250,000 women)

• Pearl Harbor

• join the US services

• join the workforce

• spent on the war