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Instability after World War I:
•World wide depression•High inflation•Germany’s high war debt
•Massive unemployment
Increased tensions between the U.S. and Japan BEFORE Pearl Harbor was due to:
•Japanese aggression in East Asia
War Timeline:
•Germany invades France on June 1940
•Japan bombs Pearl Harbor on Dec. 1941
•U.S. declares war on Japan & Germany
•D-Day
There was a gradual change in American policy during WWII:
•Practice of isolationism
•Economic aid to allies
•Direct involvement
The Battle of Britain
•Germany launched massive air raids over Britain, BUT the British Royal Air Force mounted a heroic defense and inflicted heavy losses on the German Air Force. Hitler then moved east into the Soviet Union.
Lend-lease•An act passed by Congress in March
1941 allowing the U.S. to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation vital to the defense of the U.S.
•Ex: The U.S. gave war supplies and old naval ships to Great Britain in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean.
Stalingrad
•The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, oil rich lands to the south of the Soviet Union.
Holocaust
•a systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews.
•practiced Anti-semitism- a hatred of Jews
“Rosie the Riveter”
•A character developed to encourage women to take factory jobs in defense plants.