LECTURE 16: U.S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II

Lecture Outline

1. The external factor: Axis aggression.
2. Internal factors: public opinion and FDR's attitude.
3. The neutrality debate, 1935-40.
4. 1941: Lend-Lease and the "Atlantic war."

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

Axis Pact (1940)
Ethiopia
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Munich Agreement (1938)
Adolph Hitler
"isolationism"
Sen. Gerald Nye (R-N.D.)
arms embargoes: "discretionary" and "mandatory"
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1937, and 1939
Quarantine Speech (1937)
Sen. William E. Borah (R-Idaho)
"cash-and-carry" clause
Wendell Willkie
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (1940) - William Allen White
America First Committee (1940) - Robert E. Wood
U.S.S. Greer
"A day that will live in infamy."

LECTURE 16: U.S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II

Lecture Outline

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

History 101 Syllabus