FROM NEUTRALITYTO INTERVENTION
The Road to War…
MORE WORDS AND PHRASES TO KNOW:
•Anschluss
•Blitzkrieg
•Cash and carry
•Lend Lease Agreement
(definitions on following slides)
ANSCHLUSS
Union between Austria and Germany
BLITZKRIEG
Lightning war with tanks and planes attacking at the same time.
CASH AND CARRY
•European countries couldpurchase non-militarygoods
•Pay cash, carry goodshome on THEIR vessels
LEND LEASE AGREEMENT
•President can sell, give, lease weapons
•Purpose: protect U.S.
•Allies could use weapons
WHY THE CALL FOR ISOLATIONISM IN AMERICA?
•Horrors of WWI
•Trench warfare, stalemates, physical/psychologicaldamage
•War profiteering and Tax evasion (WWI)
•Some munitions plants profited unfairly
•Federal government prosecuted businessmen
•Media encouraged hostility toward war
Purpose:
Act as safeguards to prevent the U.S.from being dragged into anotherEuro-conflict
NEUTRALITY ACTS
NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1935
•Est. mandatory arms embargo
•Citizens warned not to travel
•Neutrality Act of 1936 renewed these provisions.
•Neutrality Act of 1937 added cash and carry policy
FOCUS: JAPAN
•Japan invaded China in 1931
•Purpose: first step in taking over Asia
AGGRESSION CONTINUES THROUGHOUT 1930S
1937 – JAPAN ATTACKS 5 NORTHERNPROVINCES OF CHINA
•Purpose: take naturalresources
•Results
•Mass murder of civilianpopulations
•Japanese gain moreland/resources in China
•Seen as “aggressornation”
•FDR called for economic embargo of aggressors
•No supplies/weapons/money for Japan
•Critics said U.S. becoming “interventionists”
•Japan sank U.S. gunboat (in daylight)
•Isolationists pressure no action from FDR
•Inaction seen as weakness (to Japan)
U.S. RESPONSE: “QUARANTINE SPEECH”
Great Britain - Churchill
Soviet Union - Stalin
United States - Roosevelt
Germany - Hitler
Italy - Mussolini
Japan - Tojo
THE POWER STRUGGLE
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
