The United States
By: Jordan Heinrichs
What Caused the United States to Enter World War II
Lend-Lease Act
* Next 4 years $50 Billion
Neutrality Act of 1939
* 50 old destroyers to Britain
Hemispheric Defense Zone
* Patrolled area to inform the British
* German Submarines fire
- Killing 115 sailors
* "shoot-on-sight"
Roosevelt's Thoughts
* Didn't want to have to fight on 2 fronts
(Atlantic and Pacific)
* Build up Navy and Air Force
* "Four Freedoms"
Selective Service
Important U.S. Leaders in World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Helped Allies in every way but fighting
* Churchill, Stalin, and China's Chang Kai-shek
* United Nations
Harry S. Truman
President
* Atomic Bombs over Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Allie Supreme Commander
* Battle of the Bulge
* Impressive Ideas
* Later President
George S. Patton
* Education
* Commander
* Died
Known for:
Great Leadership
Expecting Results
Two Quotes:
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
General Mark Clark
* Operation Torch
* Education
* Invasion of French North Africa
- Plan
* Agreement was to not fight against Allied forces
* Invasion of Italy
Douglas MacArthur
* Protecting Philippine Islands
* Withdraw from the Philippines
"I shall return"
* Education
* "island-hopping"
* Helped rebuild badly damaged Japan