24.4 Notes

Directions: Use the link or the book to fill out the outline if you were absent.  In class, Mr. Cook will fill in the blanks with the students.

http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/tucker/strusky_m/2360cwebpage/eText/ch24-4.pdf

Student Learning Objective: Students will compile historical knowledge from the "Americans Textbook" and in result understand why the US entered WWII.

I. ______________________ Moves Toward War
Personal Voice page 756-Americans committed to neutrality but dictators threatened world peace
A. The United States Musters its Forces
-"As German tanks thundered across Poland, Roosevelt revised the ______________________ Act of 1935.
1. Moving cautiously away from ______________________
a. Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1939 which started a ______________________ and Carry Policy
2. The ______________________ Threat
a. Germany, Italy and ______________________ became known as the Axis Powers
3. Building US Defenses
a. Selective Training and Service Act required 16,000,000 men ages 21-___ to register for the draft
4. ______________________ runs for a 3rd Term
a. FDR broke the tradition of ___ term presidencies, a trend set by George Washington
B. The Great Arsenal of ______________________
1. The ______-Lease Plan
a. GB had no more cash to buy war goods
2. Supporting ______________________
a. ______________________  broke his non-aggression pact with Stalin, so Winston Churchill and Great Britain made an alliance with USSR.
3. ______________________ Wolf Packs
a. Hitler ordered U-Boats to attack supply ships.  Just like before US entry to WWI, Germans had declared unrestricted submarine warfare.
C. ______________________ Plans for War
1. The ______________________ Charter
a. FDR and Churchill were united on "war aims"
2. Shoot on Sight
a. Before the US was at war, German U-Boats fired on the USS Greer, USS Pink Star, US Destroyer Kearny and US Detroyer Reuben ______________________ , killing more than 100 sailors
D. ______________________ Attacks the US
1.Japan's ambitions in the ______________________
a. Japan already controlled Manchuria, China.  The US had been supplying Chinese with arms to fight the Japanese since 1937.
b. Hideki ______________________ launched the invasion on the rest of China
c. The US was in the way in the Pacific- The US also controlled many islands in the Pacific
2. ______________________ Talks are Questioned
a. Tojo originally promised Emperor ______________________  that he would preserve peace with the Americans
b. US military sent out "War Warnings" in the Pacific for potential attacks in ______________________, Guam and the Philippines in November, 1941.
c. On December, 6, 1941, FDR received a message that said the Japanese refuse all American peace proposals.  "This means war," said Roosevelt.
3. The attack on ______________________ Harbor
a. December 7, 1941
b. ______________________ Americans dead
c. ______________________ Americans wounded
d. 21 ships sunk or damaged, more than 300 aircraft damaged or destroyed
e. FDR addressed Congress on December 8, 1941 and war was declared.

No reflection required as the class is required to complete the Pg 758 PCO.