US in WW2 (1 sett 1939 anni – 2 sett 1945 anni)

Descrizione:

CONGRESS AMENDS NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION
- Neutrality Act

PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION

DEBATE OVER POLICY
- Committee to Defend America
- wanted to help England and the Allies
- America First Committee
- opposed US involvement
- Destroyers for Bases
- US would give England destroyers in
exchange for military bases in the western
hemisphere

CLOSE TO WAR
- Allied Convoy System
- US begins escorting land-lease supplies
- Atlantic Conference
- FDR and Churchill
- goals -> self-determination, free-trade, no
territorial gains, new collective security
organization

PEARL HARBOR

PACIFIC THEATER
- island hopping strategy to get close to
mainland
- Postdam Conference
- important battles:
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Iwo Jima

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