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1941 BCE
US intervention against Hitler
Opposition to US intervention against Hitler came from many sides some Americans harbored a lingering sympathy for a Germany whose aggression they attributed to Hitler's effort to reverse the wrongs inflicted upon Germany by the vindictive policies of French and England after World War II. They perceived Germany's and Italy's war aim as limited, just more moves in continental balance-of-power policies. -
1940 BCE
FDR instigates the organization of the committee
March; congress denies a request for additional funding for expansion of military personnel, facilities, and equipment.
Spring: FDR instigates the organization of the committee to defend America by Aiding the Allen white.
June: Henry Ford refuses, on isolationist principles, a government contract to build Rolls Royce engines for British Spitfire planes. -
Mobilizing U.S. Industry
An industrial Mobilization plan had been prepared by the U.S. Army in 1331 and revise by the army and Navy Munitions Board in 1933, 1936, and 1939. During the 1930 this board compiled lists of critical materials and successfully appealed to congress for modest funds to import and stockpile them. it also surveyed industrial capacities. -
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World War II
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The Start Of World War II
German troops invade what left of Czechoslovakia. August: communist dicta tor Joseph Stalin of the USSR and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler of Germany sign a nonaggression pact. September 1: Germany invades Poland.
September 3: England declares war on Germany after Hitler fails to respond to chamberlain's ultimatum to Germany to withdraw its troops from Poland. -
isolationist were determined the united state
Indeed, senator Nye and his supports had little use for the European democracies, seeing them as selfish, outmoded colonial powers.
Throughout the 1930 and up until pearl Harbor, isolationist were determined the united state should not again be maneuvered into a European war by the British and French, who they believed had gulled the American into pulling their chestnuts out of the fire. They harked back to George Washington's farewell address of September 19, 1796, in which he war. -
Great Britain and the defense of the United State
on September 5, 1939, Roosevelt issued a proclamation of neutrality and three days later he declared a limit national emergency under which he was able to make use of various emergency statures, particularly those allowing him to expend the peacetime army and to 235,000 for the national Guard. -
National Defense, Military and Economic Mobilization
By August 1940 the Britain were finding it difficult to pay for the huge order for army and raw material that they had placed in the United State. Roosevelt had to consider the possibility that England might be force to negotiate with Hitler or move it's government to Canada, bringing the war closer to the shores of North America -
Lend Lease
while he labored to support England, Roosevelt tried to placate the isolationists and reassure the public. He declared his hatred for war and promise not to send American boys to fight in a foreign war. He spoke about American aid in homely term that gained support for his policy among the people and in congress. at a press conference on December 17,1940, he outlined Britain's plight, telling a story about a man whose neighbor's house is on fire. -
Pearl Harbor
Charles A. Lindbergh resigns his air force commission. He is denied reinstatement after the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
January 3: Pacific Jeanette Rankin takes her seat in the U.S Congress, where she argues against the peacetime draft and Lend-Lease and casts the only vote against the U.S declaration of war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
January 23: Lindbergh testifies against Lend-Lease before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. -
Germany Attacked Russia
Germany attacked Russia, our own Army and Navy were impoverished. congress and the American press were demanding more supplies for the Army then in training. only little by little there came to be an understanding that Russia's ability to hold off the Germany hordes gave us greater time to train and equip an army and Navy and build up military production. As that opinion grew, the Russian supply program grew.
