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Axis powers form
Germany Italy and Japan signed an official agreement called tripartite pact.This was ment to keep the us out of war. Because the tripartite pact was basically an alliance between the three. If the us attacks. One member of the axis must fight all of them -
FDR's UNPRESIDENTED 3rd TERM
1940 president election FDR vs windel wilkey Roosevelt was easily elected Very little difference between canidates. So everyone went with whats familier. FDR was elected heartly because of his leadership that could be seen as a positive during war. People saw him as a leader through the great depression so now if we get into war they know he could do it. -
CONGRESS PASSES THE LEND-LEASE ACT
in 1940 britain had ran out of cash to spend in arsenal of democracy. roosevelt tried helping, he suggested a new plan he called a lend-lease policy. this policy stated that the president would lend or lease arms and supplies to "any country whose defence was vital to the US." Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act March 1941 -
HITLER BROKE AGREEMENT WITH STALIN
June 1941 hitler broke the agreement he had made in 1939 with stalin not to go to war and invade the soviet union. Roosevelt began to send Lend-lease supplies to the soviet union. -
SIGNING OF THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
FDR and winstan church hill met aboard the uss agusta to discuss the outcome of the war, there, they signed the atlantic charter which was a declaration of war aims and goals, these goals included: 1) elective security [taking care of each other]2) Disarmament [taking away weapons]3) self determination [we can determine our future]4)economic corroperation [we all get along]5) freedom of the seas (we can all sell without fear of getting sunk]We are supporting the allies over the axis powers -
presedent grants the navy permission for warships to attack U-Boats
After germany attacks and sinks a US boat, Roosevelt grants permission to the us military to attack german Uboats in self defence. we did this with the help of technology. {especially radar] -
THIS MEANS WAR
Roosevelt receives a decoded message that tells japans peace enjoy to reject all american peace proposals. he declared "this means war" The next morning Japanese dive-bomber swooped low over pearl harboer- the largest us naval bace in the pacific . the bomber fallowed by more than one hundred eighty japanies planes dropped bombs found their targers. an hour and a half passed and the japanese planes were barley disturbed by US antiaircract guns and target after targer
