Drill: Cartoon 1941Drill: Cartoon 1941

• What do the two beds What do the two beds represent? How do represent? How do you know?you know?

• Read the words in the Read the words in the cartoon, what cartoon, what happened in Europe happened in Europe in the late 1930s and in the late 1930s and early 1940s?early 1940s?

• Why does the US feel Why does the US feel safe?safe?

United States United States NeutralityNeutrality

How did World War I influence US How did World War I influence US foreign policy in the 1930s?foreign policy in the 1930s?

Was the US really neutral before Pearl Was the US really neutral before Pearl Harbor?Harbor?

Why was the USWhy was the USisolationist?isolationist?

• Ocean kept the US SafeOcean kept the US Safe

• Focused on solving the DepressionFocused on solving the Depression

• Some American’s liked HitlerSome American’s liked Hitler

• World War IWorld War I– Allies never paid debtAllies never paid debt– Americans died for nothingAmericans died for nothing

World Events Influence World Events Influence US PolicyUS Policy

1935: Neutrality Act of 1935- Bans US from trading with countries at war

1932: Japan invades Manchuria

1935: Italy Invades Ethiopia

World Events Influence World Events Influence US PolicyUS Policy

1937: Neutrality Act of 1937- President can trade with warring nations- warring nations paid in cash and carried the goods on their own ship

(US could give aid to France, GB, and China)

1936: Germany remilitarizes

1937: Japan invades China

1938: German anschluss w/ Austria and Germany takes the Sudetenland

World Events Influence World Events Influence US PolicyUS Policy

1939: Neutrality Act of 1939 (Nov. 1939) renewed cash-carry policy

1940: Sept: Selective Service and Training Act: 1st Peace time draft

1939: Sept. Germany invades Poland (WWII starts)

1940*April: Germany takes Denmark and Norwy*May: Germany takes Belgium Luxembourg, and Holland*June: Germany takes France*July to Oct: Battle of Britain

World Events Influence World Events Influence US PolicyUS Policy

1941: Lend Lease Act US could "sell,…, lease, lend,…to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article" *Aid went to Britain and China

1941:*Germany invades the Soviet Union*Dec. 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Exit PassExit Pass

-Explain how world events influence -Explain how world events influence American’s foreign policy of American’s foreign policy of isolationism/neutrality.isolationism/neutrality.

-Evaluate if the US was truly neutral by the -Evaluate if the US was truly neutral by the time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

-Use examples and details to support your -Use examples and details to support your answer. answer.