This presentation summarizes America's slow but increasing involvement with the nations fighting in WWII and goes up to Germany and Italy's declaration of war on the United States.
6. Cash-and-Carry Policy
• This law let Britain buy goods
from American businesses if
they paid in cash and carried the
goods to Britain in their own
ships.
7. Next, USA Passes the
Lend-Lease Act
• This law allowed the U.S. to
lend weapons to Britain
8. While war
raged in
Europe the
Japanese were
taking over
China,
Indochina, East
Indies, Malaya,
and the
Philippines.
9. To try to stop Japanese
expansion FDR stopped
selling the Japanese
things like oil,
gasoline, and other
natural resources.
10. The Japanese became
angry and planned a
secret attack on the
United States Navy
located in Hawaii.