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The Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan all signed an official agreement (official alliance) with one another. This was meant to keep the United States out of war, if we attack one of them.. we attack all of them, causing a two- ocean war. -
FDR's 3rd Term;!?
The 1940 presidental election between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie, was a rather easy election. Willkie mainly believed iin the same things that FDR did, there was not much of a difference betweem the two canidates. The citizens voted for FDR because they figured since he helped bring them out of the Great Depression, things would be positived throughout the war. -
New Policy..
FDR came up with a new policy, the Lend-Lease Policy. With this policy, the president would lend/lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the US. Isolationists argued with this plan, however, most American's favored it. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. -
Supporting Stalin
Hitler broke the agreement he had in 1939 with Stalin, and invaded the Soviet Union. -
The Signing of the Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill board the USS Augusta discussing the outcome of the war. It was here that the Atlantic Charter was signed, a declaration of war goals. These goals include: collective security, disarmement, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas. By this time, the United States are supporting the Allied Powers over the Axis Powers. -
Shoot On Sight!
German subs fired on the US destroyer Greer in the Atlantic, Roosevelt ordered the nacy commanders to respond and shoot any German subs on sight. -
This Means War-
FDR recieved a decoded message instructed Japans peace envoy to reject all american peace proposals. Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was the end of isolationism
