HIST 173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: War Production Board, Atlantic Charter, Axis Powers
Document Summary
Increase in international conflict during the 1930s. German and japanese aims, built up their army and navy. Also, they planned to control territories that they had desired. The outbreak of war in september 1939. Gain for the axis, japanese and german established the axis alliance. Poland led britain and france to go into war. Hitler"s invasion of the ussr in june 1941 brought soviets into war on side of great. Japan expanded to the pacific including countries such as china, korea. Isolationist sentiment was very strong in us in 1930s as a result of aftermath of wwi. This posed problems for fdr and advisors, who wished to intervene as early as 1939. Intervention had to produce a lasting peace. Us had to finish job begun by wilson: to create a new international system that would encourage peace and prosperity. Majority of american favored helping allies- short of joining war. Fdr and churchill issued atlantic charter (1941) to outline war aims.
