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From Isolation toIntervention: TheUnited States entersWorld War II


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How did the US go from isolation toinvolvement in world affairs?

What was the great debate betweeninterventionists and isolationists?

How did the United States get so involvedin the war?

Essential Questions


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How did Americans react to events inEurope and Asia in the early years ofWorld War II?

Americans were shocked by Japanese andGerman aggression.

Yet they remained deeply divided over

American involvement in another warespecially as they fought the despair of theGreat Depression.


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Hitler violated the Munich Pact, taking overthe remainder of Czechoslovakia

Germany launched a series of attacks on itsneighbors marked by speed and massivefirepowera blitzkrieg,or lightning war.

Hopes for peace in Europe faded as it becameclear that efforts to appease Hitler had failed.
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Poland,Denmark,Norway, and theNetherlands fell.

So, too, did France.


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Hitler then turned his fury on Britain.

The Battle ofBritain waswaged in theair as pilotsfought for

control of theskies.

The British hidin sheltersand darkenedhomes asbombs rained

down.

Despiteterribledestruction,the Britishheld on.


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In the early days of the war, Congress declaredneutrality. But as the war raged on in Europe,the United States began to take steps to supportEuropes democracies.

The Neutrality Act of 1939 contained a cash-and-carry provision favoring the Allies.

The Selective Service Act provided for a militarydraft.

FDR agreed to give Britain battleships in exchangefor defense bases.


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Not everyone agreed with FDRs pro-Alliesposition. A loud debate soon raged betweenisolationists and interventionists.

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Europe was again at war. In time, majorpowers around the world joined in alliances.

Axis Powers

Germany

Italy

Japan

Allies

Britain

France

Soviet Union

United States China


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German Aggression, 1936-1941

Many feared that Hitler was unstoppable.


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As conditions worsened overseas,

Roosevelt described what was at stake inan address to Congress.

All of these freedoms, he argued, werethreatened by German and Japanese militarism.

freedom of speech

freedom of worship

freedom from want

freedom from fear

He highlightedfour freedomsprecious toAmericans.


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The Lend-Lease Act,symbolically numbered

1776, amounted to aneconomic declarationof war.

Many people, however,remained divided overAmerican involvement inthe war.

Congress then took another step to aid the British.


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In 1941, Roosevelt and British prime ministerWinston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter,deepening the alliance between the two nations.

War seemed inevitable.

German submarines began to fire on American ships

supporting the Allies.

Roosevelt ordered the navy to attack the U-boatson sight.


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Terms and People

blitzkrieg lightning war

Axis Powers Germany, Italy, Japan, and othernations that fought together during World War II

Allies Britain, France, the Soviet Union, theUnited States, China, and other nations that foughtagainst the Axis Powers during World War II

Winston Churchill British prime minister duringWorld War II


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Neutrality Act of 1939 American law thatallowed nations at war to buy U.S. arms if theypaid cash and carried them away on their own

ships Tripartite Pact three-party agreement

establishing an alliance between Germany, Italy,and Japan

Lend-Lease Act American law that allowedthe U.S. to lend, lease, sell, or otherwise provideaid to other nations if doing so helped in thedefense of the United States

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Atlantic Charter document signed byRoosevelt and Churchill that endorsed nationalself-determination and an international system

of general security

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