HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lend-Lease, Axis Powers, Victory In Europe Day
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Why us stayed out of wwii: policy of isolation, many americans objected to us intervention into european affairs, us congress passed neutrality acts which prevented trade of weapons with any country. Us prepares for war: us president franklin roosevelt persuaded congress to allow sidestepping of some neutrality. Laws to allow the selling of weapons (especially planes) to britain. In 1940s, the selective service act allowed a military draft of young men. 2: lend lease act (1941) allowed roosevelt to sell goods to any nation that was fighting an aggressor, this marks a real shift towards the us getting prepared for the war and siding with the allies. Allies strike back: north africa, germans and italians controlled north africa under the leadership of german general rommel. b. He was known as the desert fox and was a master of tank warfare.
