Progression of U.S. Involvement in WWII

By trey howard

  • Roosevelt Going for Third Term

    Roosevelt Going for Third Term
    Roosevelt was going for a two term presidency, made a policy to aide Britain, and also wanted to keep the nation out of the war. voters chose the man they new best for the election so roosevelt was reelected with 55 percent of the votes cast.

  • Axis Powers Formed

    Axis Powers Formed
    Germany, Italy, Japan sign the defense treaty, the Tripartite act they became the axis powers. this was used to keep the United States out of the war. other nations agreed to become the defense of others in case of an attack.

  • Nations Recieve Lend Lease Aid

    Nations Recieve Lend Lease Aid
    Hitler broke his agreement he made he made in 1939 by not wanting to invade the Soviet Union. America aided the Soviet Union by sending them supplies in case of an attack. If they were to invade the United States and the Soviet Union would be prepared.

  • Supporting Stalin

    Supporting Stalin
    Hitler broke the agreement between him and Stalin made in 1939 to not got to war and invade the Soviet Union. "The enemy of my enemny is my friend". FDR sent lend-lease supplies to the Soviet Union. Roosevelt agreed with Churchill. If Hitler invaded, the British better be prepared to work with "the devil".

  • Signing of the Atlantic Charter

    Signing of the Atlantic Charter
    FDR and Winston Churchill secretly met aboard the USS Augusta to discuss the outcome of the war. they signed together in the Atlantic Charter which was a joint declaration of war goals. those goals included,collective security, disarmament, economic cooperation, self determination.the united States is now a further choosing because of the allies.

  • Attacked by Germans

    Attacked by Germans
    A U-boat torpeoded the U.S. destroyer and killed 11 people. They sank the U.S. destroyer killing more than 100 sailors. The Senate finally repealed the ban against arming merhcant ships. A formal declaration of full-scale war seemed unenviateable.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    Peace talks were going on for months and then Japan sent a decoded message to Roosevelt saying they were rejecting all American Peace proposals. - Which meant war. The next morning, a japanese bomb-diver swept over Pearl Harbor followed by a 180 Japanses war planes. In less than 2 hours, they killed 2,403 Americans and wounded tons.