Mobilizing for War

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Mobilizing for War
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1928

• Kellogg-Briand Pact signed war is not a national
  policy

President Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and
Frank B. Kellogg, standing, with representatives
of the governments who have ratified the Treaty
for Renunciation of War (Kellogg-Briand Pact), in
the East Room of the White House.
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1935

• Congress passes first in a series of Neutrality
  Acts, extending ban on arms sales and loans to
  nations engaged in civil wars

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July 1937

• Japan attacks China we send supplies to China,
  skirting around the Neutrality Acts because Japan
  didnt actually declare war
• - Roosevelt speaks out against isolationism but
  the isolationists accuse him of trying to lead us
  to war, so he backs off

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1939

• We turn back the St. Louis fearing German enemy
  agents on board, as well as for reasons of
  anti-Semitism, and fear of losing US jobs and
  threatening economic recovery

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September 1939

• Congress passes cash and carry legislation to
  help Britain and France which will keep us out of
  war

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by June 1940

• We have sent 500,000 rifles, 80,000 machine guns,
  and traded 50 destroyers for leases at British
  military bases decidedly un-neutral

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September 27, 1940

• Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite
  Pact, becoming the Axis Powers aimed at keeping
  the US out of war by being a larger threat

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• US boosts defense spending and passes 1st
  peacetime draft the Selective Training and
  Service Act for men 21-35 years old drafting 1
  million men for 1 year to serve in Western
  Hemisphere only

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• Roosevelt re-elected to 3rd term when Wendell
  Wilkie proves to believe in many of the same
  policies
• Roosevelt gives speech saying the only way to
  defeat the Axis powers so the world is not living
  at gunpoint if France and Britain are defeated is
  to become a great arsenal of democracy

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1940

• Britain is out of money for cash carry
• March 1940 Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act
  to lend and lease arms and supplies to any
  country whose defense is vital to the US

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June 1941

• Hitler breaks his pact with Stalin and invades
  the USSR the US sends lend-lease supplies to
  USSR the enemy of our enemy is our friend

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July 1941

• Japan invades French owned Indochina so US cuts
  off all trade with Japan Japan needs peace to
  keep oil and supplies for their expansion, so
  peace talks with US begin

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August 1941

• Roosevelt extends terms of draftees, meets with
  Churchill on USS August to settle on a joint
  declaration of war aims called the Atlantic
  Charter, for the common purpose of Allies
  fighting against Axis powers which is signed by
  26 nations

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September 1941

• Roosevelt allows US warships to attack German
  U-boats in self-defense after wolf packs sink as
  much as 350,000 tons of supplies in one month.
  After U-boats sink US destroyers Kearny and
  Reuben James, order is given to shoot U-boats on
  site

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November 5, 1941

• Japan prepares attack on Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

• Japan attacks US base at Pearl Harbor 2403
  people killed, 1178 wounded, 21 ships sunk or
  damaged, and over 300 planes destroyed

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December 8, 1941

• Roosevelt declares war, calling the attack a day
  which will live in infamy
• 5 million men volunteer to fight to meet the
  demands, the Selective Service draft another 10
  million