WWII: Neutrality & Lend Lease

WWII: Neutrality & Lend Lease

1. World War II MAST High School US History – Period 4 Ms. Richardson

2. United States: World War I Statistics # of causalities: – approximately 323,018 Cost of war: Approximately $32 billion The wars end bought widespread disillusionment in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. The media blamed bankers & munitions (weapons) companies for the war.

3. Isolationism a policy of remaining apart from the political affairs and interest of other countries. Internationalism a political principle which supports a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and peoples.

4. Allies Powers Great Britain Soviet Union France Axis Powers Germany Japan Italy

5. Territory Controlled by the Axis Powers (1941)

6. Neutrality Acts Congress enacted the Neutrality Acts, as follows: No sale or shipment of arms to belligerents No loans or credits to belligerents No travel by U.S. citizens on belligerents' ships Neutrality Acts 1939 Purchase of nonmilitary goods by belligerents to be paid in cash and transported in their own ships (cash-and-carry) Purpose: to limit U.S. involvement in future wars

7. Lend-Lease Act 1941 Ended U.S. neutrality! U.S. becomes “ arsenal of democracy ” Britain had no $$ to pay for war goods. U.S. would lend or lease arms & other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.”