The document summarizes key events in America's entry into World War II and relations with other nations during this period. It describes the US's Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, continuing isolationism, and reluctance to get involved in another European war after WWI despite wanting to help Britain. It also outlines increasing tensions with Japan over its expansionism in Asia, culminating in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that prompted the US to declare war.

1. AMERICA AND WORLD Chapter 22
WAR II (1941 – 1945)

3. GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY
US continued to dominate Latin America
politically and economically
Beginning to rely less on direct military
intervention
FDR differs from his predecessors by
substituting cooperation for coercion
“US would be a good neighbor to Latin
America”
However, domination of this area would remain
unchallenged
The Monroe Doctrine still lived on in many ways

4. U.S. ISOLATIONISM
 Business-minded people in America did not want to give up
profitable overseas markets like Germany and Japan just
because Europe was hacked of f
 US refuses to recognize the Soviet Union and quarrels with
England and France over repayment of loans they had
received in World War I

5. U.S. ISOLATIONISM
 US was too afraid to get involved in another “meaningless
war” after World War I
 Neutrality Acts typified the 1930s as the US was gripped with
depression and scared to commit to its allies in Europe

6. WAR IN EUROPE
 Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939
 For nearly two years, Britain stood virtually alone in fighting
Germany
 Battle of Britain
 First major campaign in World War II
 Fought entirely by air forces
 Britain prevailed against almost overwhelming odds
 Germany’s loss was the significant and was one of the first turning
points in the war
 FDR wanted to help Britain, but public support limited him

7. THE ROAD TO INTERVENTION
FDR runs for an unprecedented third
term as he pushes the country to “keep
someone with experience” in office if the
US gets brought into the war (1940)
Lend Lease Act (1941)
US begins shipments of war material to Great
Britain
Also freezes Japanese assets

8. THE ROAD TO INTERVENTION
Atlantic Charter
FDR signs on with his good friend, British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
The blueprint for the world after WWII; sets
the foundation for international treaties and
organizations that would bring the world back
to its feet economically

10. WAR BREAKS OUT IN EUROPE
Germany invades Poland on 1 September
1939
German Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) appeared
unstoppable
It was definitely getting Britain’s attention
For almost two years, Britain is alone in the
fight against German aggression
FDR wants to help Britain, but public
opinion in the US greatly limited him during
this time period

12. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Japan had long been interested in an
Asian empire and occupied Korea and
key parts of Manchuria before 1920
When Japan sought to gain supremacy in
China, the US protested with the “Open
Door Policy”

13. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Open Door Policy
Basically stated that the US and all European
nations could trade with China, free to use their
treaty ports
Within the spheres of influence in China
China’s power as a nation is declining during this
period
The theory had been that trade was a basic right
of all nations, even though sovereign countries
could counter with isolationist attitudes

14. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Open Door Policy
Isolationism would essentially be unnatural
for trade and communication; based in the
arguments of John Locke
Ironic as the US had no problem promoting
isolationism during the Great Depression

15. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Japan’s utter disregard of the Open Door
policy
Leads to the Washington Conference in 1922
The conference again declares the
independence of China via the Open Door
Policy; helped through the “Nine Power Treaty”
 Yet the treaty lacked any enforcement regulations

16. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Japan’s utter disregard of the Open Door
policy
Japan violated these agreements by seizing
Manchuria, but the US did not respond
After war breaks out in Europe, the US begins
to realize where Japan stands…taking sides
with the fascists
US responds by limiting exports to Japan
 Strategic materials such as oil

17. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
Japan’s utter disregard of the Open Door
policy
This did not restrain Japan, but make the
country angry
 So, they side with Germany and Italy
 Push further into Indochina

18. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
The US response – end all trade with
Japan
Sounds a lot like how we got into the War of
1812
Japan tries to negotiate with the US
 Plan B was to attack if their demands were not granted

19. U.S. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN
The US response – end all trade with
Japan
Japan wanted a large stake in China for
restoration of normal trade patterns
The US demanded that Japan withdraw its
troops
Negotiation fails and Japan attacks

21. PEARL HARBOR
December 7, 1941
“FDR’s Date that Will Live in Infamy”
This attack in the Pacific greatly changes
Americans’ minds about neutrality
everyone’s angry and ready to go to war

23. PEARL HARBOR
FDR finally asks for a declaration of war
The US suffered significant early defeats
after entering the war because the
country was unprepared for a naval and
air war halfway across the world

24. THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
 The first few months of American involvement witnessed an
unbroken string of military disasters
 The tide turned with the battles at Coral Sea and Midway
 May and June 1942

26. D-DAY
6 June 1944
Allied invasion of Normandy, France
(Operation Neptune)
2 phases of Allied attack
Air assault by the Americans, British, and
French shortly after midnight
Amphibious landing of Allied infantry and
armored divisions on the coast of Normandy,
France at 0630

29. D-DAY
Significance
The absolute largest amphibious invasion of
all time (175,000 troops)
195,700 Naval personnel involved overall
Established the much needed second front in
Western Europe
 A majority of the fighting was fought initially in North Africa and Italy