U.S. Moves Towards War

1. - After Nazis invade Poland, FDR announces U.S. will still remain _______________ • - He knew most Americans favored the allies but didn’t want to go to war. • - HOWEVER… he wanted _______________________to know we supported them • IS THIS NEUTRAL?..... Duh! _________________________________: US sells arms to the allies and Allies pay cash for goods/carry them away in their own ships. FDR gave Britain 50 US battleships in exchange for 99-year leases on military bases in Canada and Caribbean. U.S. Moves Towards War 1 - US began _____________________________Just in Case 2 - Congress approved greater spending for _____________ 3 - FDR also runs for ___ term. Only president in history to do so. Britain is running out of $$ ______________says: “Britain is defending democracy against totalitarian forces.” ______________________________Allowed the US to sell/lend war supplies to any country “whose defense the president deemed vital to the US.” US lent guns, tanks, ammunition, planes to G.B. Hitler Attacks! - June 1941, Hitler launched a surprise invasion of the ___________________________________ - Soviets are now part of the _______________, although FDR condemned Stalin’s totalitarian rule. • War Goals: • 1941, FDR and _______________________________ issue the Atlantic Charter: _______________________________________________________ • USA & G.B. decide to seek no territory from the war • Germany and ______________________sign an alliance • US refuses to sell oil and resources to the Japanese [Japan = ___________] 